Arab New Media For Peace and Dialogue

Best Practice Guide and Pedagogical Toolkit

Tags: Civil Society in West Asia

This publication is the result of the Arab New Media for Peace and Dialogue project carried out by the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia - Unescocat, in cooperation with the UNESCO Office in Baghdad, and with the support of the UNESCO Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace Division.

The Best Practice Guide gives a general overview of new media in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories and Syria. It analyses new media experiences acquired in conflict and post conflict areas, presenting best practice examples and recommendations developed by the workshop participants on how to use new media as a tool to facilitate peace and dialogue in the region.

The Pedagogical Toolkit contains a series of articles by experts on new media.It formed the basis of the training sessions at the “Arab New Media for Peace and Dialogue Workshop” and provides useful, practical insight into the field of new media within the region and in other contexts.