Documentaion Documentaion Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum Media Forum Global Welle Deutsche Documentation 2015 Media and Foreign Policy in the Digital Age dw.com/gmf | #dw_gmf 2,211 delegates from 126 countries representing 743 institutions Afghanistan Albania Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Benin Bhutan Bosnia-Herzegovina Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Democratic Republic of the Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Egypt Estonia Ethiopia Finland France Gabon Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Honduras Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Libya Luxembourg Macedonia (FYROM) Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mauritania Mexico Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Nepal The Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Pakistan Palestinian Territories Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan (Republic of China) Tanzania Thailand Togo Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Co-hosted by Supported by In co-operation with International Conference June 22 – 24, 2015 World Conference Center Bonn, Germany Conference Documentation Media and Foreign Policy in the Digital Age 2 Global Media Forum Documentation 2015 30 — WS 06 | Journalists and NGOs: Monday, June 22 The political power of Tuesday, June 23 digital media in Asia Hosted by Deutsche Welle 07 — Welcoming address 56 — Plenary session Peter Limbourg 32 — WS 06.1 | What is media Foreign policy in 140 characters: Director General of Deutsche Welle viability and how is it relevant How technology is redefining Germany to foreign policy? diplomacy Hosted by International Hosted by Deutsche Welle 09 — Keynote address Programme for the Development of Prof. Monika Grütters Communication, UNESCO (IPDC) Workshops 15 – 21 Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and 34 — WS 07 | Independent voices or 58 — Video message the Media, Germany mouthpieces of the rulers? The Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier role and impact of state and public Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, 11 — Welcoming address broadcasters in transformation Germany Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer and conflict Minister of State, Hosted by DW Akademie 60 — WS 16 | Afric@online – Federal Foreign Office, Germany Empowerment or exploitation? Hosted by Deutsche Welle 12 — Welcoming address Workshops 08 – 14 Dr. Marc Jan Eumann 62 — WS 17 | Social media vs. digital jihad State Secretary for Federal Affairs, 38 — WS 08 | Combating extremism in Hosted by The Digital Mass Atrocity Europe and Media of North social media – Transnational Prevention Lab Rhine-Westphalia, Germany challenges and (liberal) solutions Hosted by the Friedrich Naumann 64 — WS 18 | Bringing people together: 14 — Ceremonial speech Foundation for Freedom The global power of virtual formats Georg Kofler in higher education Media Manager, Founder and 40 — WS 09 | Beyond social media: Hosted by German Academic Chairman of the Supervisory Board, How citizens influence foreign Exchange Service (DAAD) Kofler Energies, Germany policy in democracies Hosted by Carnegie Endowment 66 — WS 19 | Truth and propaganda: 15 — Official launch of DW’s for International Peace Political reporting in the English-language TV channel Russia-Ukraine conflict Hosted by Deutsche Welle 42 — WS 10 | Attitude change and media: Hosted by Konrad Adenauer Techniques for understanding what Foundation 18 — Keynote address really makes your audiences tick Günther H. Oettinger and how to change their attitudes 68 — WS 20 | The 24/7-news cycle – How Commissioner for Digital Economy Hosted by Radio Netherlands can international organizations adapt? and Society, European Commission, Training Centre (RNTC) Hosted by Organization for Security Belgium and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) 44 — WS 11 | Involuntary journeys – 20 — Media summit: How to interview refugees 70 — WS 21 | The challenges and oppor- If it bleeds, it leads Foreign policy in a digital age tunities of covering news on the and international crisis reporting Hosted by Dart Centre for International Criminal Court Hosted by Deutsche Welle Journalism and Trauma Hosted by International Criminal Court 46 — WS 12 | My human rights in the Workshops 03 – 07 digital Age: A World Café conversation on privacy and Workshops 22 – 26 24 — WS 03 | Preserving freedom of expression freedom of speech Hosted by Amnesty International 74 — WS 22 | Fighting gun cultures – Hosted by Deutsche Welle Challenges for research, practice, 48 — WS 13 | When emotions run too diplomacy and the media 26 — WS 04 | Generation transmedia – high – The role of the media in the Hosted by Bonn International The way to tell stories today polarization of conflicts Center for Conversion (BICC) Hosted by Grimme-Institut Hosted by Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) 76 — WS 23 | Confronting the feminist 28— WS 05 | 70 years of the UN – From narrative through digital diplomacy the past to the future: Fit for the 50 — Plenary session as a tool for peace and international purpose in the age of digital media? Reporting on post-conflict societies development Hosted by United Nations and frozen conflicts Hosted by Voice of Women Organizations in Bonn Hosted by Robert Bosch Stiftung Initiative (VOW) Content 3 78 — WS 23.1 | Access to energy 124 — Closing address in the digital age Wednesday, June 24 Peter Limbourg Hosted by Energising Development Director General of Deutsche Welle, Germany 80 — WS 24 | Empowering women 106 — Plenary session through hashtags – New ways to Resource wars – Implications for 128 — Publishing information sustainable conflict resolution? foreign and security policy Hosted on behalf of Gender@ Hosted by Deutsche Welle International Bonn by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale 108 — WS 34 | The human right to freedom Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Deutsche of religion in the digital age – Welle, United Nations Organizations Implications for its protection and in Bonn and the UN Women National implementation Committee Germany Hosted by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation 82 — WS 25 | 24 hours to seal the climate and Development deal: The role of digital media and public mobilization for the UN 110 — WS 35 | How do culture journalism climate talks and digital media contribute to Hosted by CARE Deutschland- societies in transition? Luxemburg e.V. Hosted by Goethe-Institut 84 — WS 26 | Conflict in “Kulmeria” – 112 — WS 36 | Public broadcasting and A media and conflict simulation development: Latin America shows Hosted by TheVisionMachine how to do it! Hosted by Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) Workshops 27 –32 88 — WS 27 | Beyond hashtags and likes Workshops 37 –39 – How to stimulate e-participation in foreign policy 116 — WS 37 | Digital media, citizen Hosted by Deutsche Welle and journalism, and whistle-blowing: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Overcoming the challenges of (ifa) national security and corporate capture in 2015 90 — WS 28 | From landmines to nuclear Hosted by Free Press Unlimited weapons: The humanitarian and the Project on Organizing, approach to disarmament and the Development, Education and role of digital media Research (PODER) Hosted by Pressenza and the International Campaign 118 — WS 38 | The media and conflicts to Abolish Nuclear Weapons around natural resources in Latin America 92 — WS 29 | End impunity for atrocities Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Latin against journalists: A way forward America Center (ILZ), University of Hosted by Reporters without Borders Bonn 94 — WS 30 | Political and crisis commu- 120 — WS 39 | Access to and availability of nication capacities for civil society essential medicines and public administrators Hosted by Ärzte ohne Grenzen / Hosted by DW Akademie Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) 96 — WS 31 | Local news, global affairs – 122 — Keynote address Playing by the old rules will not Dr. Scilla Elworthy work in the new paradigm Founder of the Oxford Research Hosted by Ashoka Group and Peace Direct, Co-founder of Rising Women Rising World, and 98 — The 2015 Bobs Awards ceremony Councillor of the World Future Hosted by Deutsche Welle Council, United Kingdom 4 Global Media Forum Documentation 2015 Monday, June 22 55 6 Global Media Forum Documentation 2015 Monday, June 22 7 Welcoming address Yet despite the positives, the media situa- gious fanatics upload their videos of in- tion is critical around the world. In many human brutality. The struggle for media Peter Limbourg places, it’s very worrying. Quality jour- dominance in the Cold War was practical- Director General of Deutsche Welle, nalism is becoming increasingly difficult ly a warm breeze compared to the battles Germany to implement. Sometimes that’s due to a of information and opinion made possi- lack of knowledge about the standards of ble by digitalization, the Internet and so- the craft, and sometimes it stems from a cial media. Even Germany is not an island Ladies and Gentlemen, lack of funding. But frequently, the rea- of media bliss. That’s evident in the non- Despite the weather, this is a great day. sons behind journalistic