Youth Radio for Peacebuilding – A Guide

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Youth radio is a tool with tremendous power to build peace. Just as youth are deeply involved in conflict, they also have the potential to play a role in building peace. Radio has the potential to harness the creativity of young people. This guidebook has been written with such young people in mind. It is designed to help them and those who work with them design and produce entertaining radio programmes which will help construct a peaceful future. The basis of this guide was developed in September 2005 at a workshop in Ghana bringing together presenters and producers from 12 sub-Saharan African countries who explored the skills necessary to make youth programmes which engage the audience and have a positive rather than negative impact, helping resolve rather than inflame conflict. The principles below include new ways of seeing their roles, new perspectives on conflict, and new objectives and techniques for presenting their programmes.    

A CD-Rom of the guide is available on request from Radio for Peacebuilding

RFPA is a project of Search for Common Ground, an international NGO that works in the field of conflict transformation. The RFPA project aims to develop, spread and encourage the use of radio broadcasting techniques and content for peacebuilding.

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/radio_peace.pdf

Organisation: 
Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/radio_peace.pdf

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