The advent of social media has altered the communication of relationships in myriad ways. High school friends – lost years before to different colleges, cross-country moves, and growing families – are now back in contact via social networks. Communally speaking, social media relationships are...
It is difficult to treat communication separately from the other elements that have developed and sometimes become challenges in the society of today. If not all, most of the components of any society are subject to change and any change is a potential challenge.
2014 marks the 40th year of the Pacific Conference of Churches’ efforts to bring justice to a region affected by nuclear testing.
...Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far too narrow terms, as if Big Brother governments and politicians ignorant about the role of media are the only problem. Of course, they’re not. There are many other issues that are...
There are some 20,000 to 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. Most of these Pacific Islands are collectively referred to as Oceania and are traditionally grouped into Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
La comunicación comunitaria indígena es, en muchas comunidades de Oaxaca, México (foto abajo), una defensa anclada al derecho de los pueblos al territorio ancestral. El territorio entendido como fuente de subsistencia pero también como elemento simbólico de pertenencia, de apego afectivo en el...
The cinema and the Church have a lot in common – they are both “storytelling organisations” as Julia Helmke (photo right), president of the Protestant film organisation, Interfilm, puts it. In an interview, she tells us what makes a good film and when...
In a recent interview, Denis de Moraes, Associate Professor at the Cultural and Media Studies Department of the Universidad Federal Fluminense of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, described Latin America as a continent which today represents “a laboratory of hope for the democratization of...
The youngest mechanism for Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations is the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). Established in 2007 by the Human Rights Council, the Expert Mechanism provides the Council with thematic advice in the form of studies...
“Desde principios de la década de los noventa, numerosas ONGS en el Perú han introducido la capacitación y/o formación de líderes como tarea prioritaria (…) El peso que va asumiendo esta particular apuesta por el desarrollo, llevó a que … se considerara pertinente...
