EVENTS
"War Drums and peace Talks - The New Age of Militarism ". International conference on Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 March 1994, at Wembley Conference Centre, London.
The conference will bring together journalists, economists, human rights activists and others from across the globe. There will be a wide range of workshops and plenaries addressing issues such as the following:
- What is behind the peace process?
- The media and war
- What are the roots of ethnic conflict?
- Race and nation in the 90s
- The rewriting of history
- Military strategy in the new World Order.
Speakers include: Baffour Ankomah, assistant editor of New African ; James Petras, Professor of Sociology, State University of new York at Binghamton, member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal against repression in Latin America; Joan Phillips, journalist, writer and presenter of Journalists at War , a documentary for Channel 4 about media coverage of the war in former Yugoslavia; and, barbara Trent, Oscar-winning director of The Panama deception , a documentary about the US invasion of Panama.
For further information, contact: Amanda Macintosh, Tel: +44/71 2789908, or write to: CAM, 92 Cromer Street, London WC1H 8DD."East, West, South and Human Rights Protection" . International workshop in Prague (Czechia) in March 1994, organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
Contact: North-South Centre, Avenida da Liberdade 229-4, P-1200 Lisboa, Portugal; Tel: +351/1 522903, Fax: +351/1 42238623."Refugees in the New Europe" . Seminar in London on March 3, 1994. Themes: race relations and xenophobia in Europe. Organised by the Brithish refugee Council.
Contact: Jill Rutter, BRC, Bondway House, 3/9 Bondway, GB-London SW8 1SJ; Tel: +44/71 5826922, Fax: +44/71 5829929.