[HCDX] peace radio web site
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[HCDX] peace radio web site

Dr. Hansjoerg Biener - Neulichtenhofstr. 7 - DE-90461 Nuernberg
Peace Education Standing Commission

Dear DX friends,
I would like to inform you about a project on peace radio that I am
about to start and I would like to ask you for your assistance. I am
using all the e-mail addresses of prominent DXers that I picked up
during the last few years and some may be out of date. "If you feel
bothered by unsolicited mail please ignore this message."
73s, Dr Hj. Biener


peace radio web site

For decades, the DX community has known the phenomenon of clandestine
broadcasting and has developed excellent reference tools about this part
of the broadcasting scene. In the recent decade, even a wider public
took notice of hate radio. In oder to redirect the focus of attention on
the peace making potential, the peace education standing commission of
the world conference of religions for peace is going to launch a new
project on its website later this month.

Dr Hansjoerg Biener, a short wave listener for 25 years, who already
runs an extensive site on domestic and international broadcasting in
German, is to document radio efforts working towards peace, democracy
and human rights. To be named on the peace radio site a station or
programme has to meet the following criteria:
-adherence to journalistic principles in its reporting
-humanitarian programming
-financial support from reknowned international sources
This exludes partisan and clandestine broadcasting as well as much of
the programming sponsored by single religious groups. It also excludes
some government sponsored broadcasting
which did or might have effects for international peace, democracy and
human right.

In order not to rely on official source only, Dr Hansjoerg Biener tries
to tap on the knowledge and experience of potential local and
international listeners. So suggestions and comments are very much
invited. Information is sought about the history and current state of
the following stations or programmes:
- Radio Amahoro. A Kinyarwanda programme launched in the context of the
massacres in Rwanda.
- Following the cease fire between Ethiopia and Eritrea UN was to launch
programmes on the respective state radios.
- The UN has used the external service of Radio Ethiopia to broadcast a
Voice of Peace to Somalia, but little is known about this service.
(Dr. Hansjoerg Biener 7 July 2001)


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