Conference: 20 Years of Media Assistance in Western Balkans
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27/09/2013
Conference: 20 Years of Media Assistance in Western Balkans
Konferencija
Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
CONFERENCE
BETWEEN SUSTAINABILITY AND DEPENDENCE:
20 YEARS OF MEDIA ASSISTANCE IN WESTERN BALKANS
Friday, September 27, 2013; 09:00-16:00h
Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina
Hotel Europe, Conference Hall 1, Vladislava Skarića 5
The Center for Social Research Analitika from Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with the Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM) from Macedonia, Albanian Media Institute (AMI) from Albania and the Democracy for Development (D4D) from Kosovo, is organizing the international conference ”Between Sustainability and Dependence: 20 Years of Media Assistance in Western Balkans“.
During last 20 years, numerous media assistance programs have been deployed in the countries of Western Balkans with the aim to help development of an independent, professional and sustainable media sector, and to support overall democratization. This conference aims to discuss the internationally-led media assistance programs, and whether or not they were instrumental for media reforms in the countries of the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia – trying to understand the link between deployed assistance strategies and achieved results in the local context. The questions we want to tackle are: Can external media assistance result in the creation sustainable media institutions? How does the context influence the development of media institutions and media outlets that have been established by external influences? Whether or not and how different approaches to media assistance might have different outcomes in terms of the sustainability of assistance results in a given context? And how does the interaction between domestic and international actors shape the outcome of institutional building?
The conference is a part of the project ”Development of Functional Media Institutions in Western Balkans - A Comparative Study“ funded by the Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP) Western Balkans.
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Due to a limited number of available seats, those interested to participate should confirm their attendance before September 20, 2013.