PROJECT ON ETHNIC RELATIONS

Discrimination in the media is a provoking subject.i?1 Present to discuss it were: on one side the Roma minorityâ??s representatives and on the other one the journalists. In the middle, PER Regional Center and the National Council of Audiovisual.i?1 The result was a debate where the Roma said that sometimes the press discriminates, and the journalists opined that in principle they reflect the reality.

” How can professionalism protect the media against the outside pressures?â?? â??What can the journalists do to improve the ethical standards, especially during periods of social conflicts?â?? â??What is the role of journalistsâ?? unions and associations and of the editorial corporations?â?? â??What formative, editorial and engagement standards are still missing?â?? These are part of the questions, to which the participants tried to find some answers during the roundtable discussion on â??The Freedom of Expression and the Danger of Intolerance in Mass-Mediaâ?? Continua articolul

1.   The European Union and its neighborhood policy, from the prospective of interethnic relations. (Regional conferences follow up round tables).
1.1.   The first activity under this program was the conference â??History, Identity and Interethnic Respect in the Context of European Neighborhood Policyâ??.
The conference was organized in Bucharest, on March 19, 2007 and had on the agenda the main issues:
-Â Â Â How can the same history generate different identities?
-Â Â Â How can an â?oobjective historyâ?? generate more â?osubjective historiesâ???
-Â Â Â Which are the elements of common history that can separate or unify different ethno-cultural communities?
-Â Â Â How can we approach a European identity from the historic and identity prospective in Romania and the Republic of Moldova?
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Bucharest, Romania
May 25, 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface 1
Learning to Live Together: The Role of the Media in Covering Interethnic Relations in the Black Sea Region 3
List of participants 20
Other Per Publications 22

PREFACE
In the Black Sea Region, the complexities of ethnic relations are as diverse as the communities that live there. All the countries in the area are multi-ethnic, and all have political borders which do not necessarily reflect their lines of ethnic division. Many of these countries are relatively new democracies still hashing out the mechanisms of free press and transparency. Others are new members to the European Union and NATO. All, however, are still, to different extents, saddled with the remnants of a non-democratic past. What is more, the treatment of minorities in this region garners global attention as too often this is the field on which the international community exercises its power plays.

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LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER: THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN COVERING INTERETHNIC RELATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA REGION