role in international justice
"The Role of Journalism in International Justice" will be the focus of a panel discussion being held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 23, in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.
The event is sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and co-sponsored by the undergraduate magazine The Yale Globalist, and the Artemis Project Student Initiative.
In conjunction with the panel, there will be a screening of "Justice Unseen," a film by Refik Hodzic and Aldin Arnautovice about the Bosnian genocide, at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 24, in the Davenport/Pierson auditorium, 248 York St., and a photo exhibition titled "Post-War Reconstruction in Sierra Leone" in the Pierson College art space, 231 Park St.
All three events are free and open to the public.
The March 23 panel will explore the challenges that journalists face in covering both conflict and post-conflict situations, as well as the media's ability to raise public awareness about human rights issues of "transitional justice" -- i.e., the war crimes tribunals and truth commissions established to address both individual grievances against former regimes and such mass crimes as genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The seven journalists who will serve as panelists are:
Thomas Kamilindi (Rwanda). A former Radio Rwanda journalist, Kamilindi narrowly escaped death during the 1994 genocide and took refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines, which inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda." He later worked as correspondent for BBC Rwanda. He testified as a prosecution witness in the Media Trial in the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda. Kamilindi is currently a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he is doing research on "Hate Media and Its Impact."
Tina Rosenberg (Human Rights and Foreign Policy). Rosenberg has been an editorial writer at The New York Times since 1996, concentrating on foreign policy. She was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Her 1994 book "The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism" won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. She is also author of "Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America."
Max du Preez (South Africa). A native of South Africa, du Preez founded the first (and only) anti-apartheid newspaper in the Afrikaans language, Vrye Weekblad; it was the first to expose the government's death squads and systematic torture and assassinations. He was executive producer and presenter of the weekly public television program Special Report on the Truth Commission, which became the most-watched show in South Africa. Du Preez is now working as an independent documentary filmmaker and weekly columnist for several South African newpapers. He has published three best-sellers: "Pale Native -- Memories of a Renegade Reporter," "Of Lovers, Warriors and Prophets" and "Oranje Blanje Blues."
Refik Hodzic (Bosnia). A radio and television journalist in Bosnia, Hodzic has worked for the United Nations as a spokesperson in missions in Bosnia and East Timor; for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as an outreach coordinator for Bosnia and Herzegovina; and for the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the head of the Public Information and Outreach Section. He is one of the founders of XY Films in Sarajevo, and co-wrote and co-directed "Justice Unseen," which will be shown on campus on March 24.
Julia Urunnaga (Peru). Now a master's degree candidate in Yale's International Relations Program, Urunnaga was on the team of journalists that uncovered the clandestine graves of a group of university students and professors kidnapped and murdered by a paramilitary faction of the Peruvian Army. She also helped expose other atrocities committed by the regime of President Alberto Fujimoro and advocated for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in that country. She was chief of programs for the journalism initiative at the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad in Lima, Peru, a non-governmental organization specializing in freedom of the press and protecting journalists throughout Latin America.
Michele Montas (Haiti). A veteran broadcast journalist, Montas became director of Radio Haiti after her husband, renowned journalist Jean Dominique, was assasssinated in 2000. She stopped broadcasting in 2003 when unknown assailants killed a security guard during a failed murder attempt against her in her home. Eventually, the constant threats against the station's other journalists forced her to close Radio Haiti. She currently directs the French Language Unit of U.N. Radio at the United Nations in New York, where she served in 2004 as a spokesperson for the president of the U.N. General Assembly.
Jill Jolliffe (Australia and East Timor). An Australian-born freelance journalist, Jolliffe covered the Indonesian invasion of then-Portuguese Timor, the topic of her renowned book "East Timor: Nationalism and Colonialism." During the war in Angola 1985-1993, she reported on atrocities by both the government and UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola). In 1994, she returned to East Timor to interview guerrilla leader Nino Santana, traveling clandestinely through Indonesia; the documentary "Blockade" was inspired by her arrest by the Indonesian military on a return visit there. In 1999, Jolliffe returned to East Timor with U.N. peacekeeping forces; she has continued to report from Timor since its independence in 2002, covering both United Nations and government performance on human rights issues.
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