Event

Conflict Resolution Through Journalism and Education: The Pulitzer Center Model

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 12:45pm EDT (GMT -0400)

Pulitzer Center Managing Director Nathalie Applewhite and National Education Coordinator Mark Schulte will present a keynote speech followed by a workshop at the 5th International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education (CRE). Their presentation will focus on the work of the Pulitzer Center in the fields of global journalism and education, and how it relates to conflict resolution. The Pulitzer Center's innovative, multi-faceted, approach to international journalism and education provides sustained attention to too often ignored issues; allowing journalists to cover under-reported stories abroad, and sharing their first-hand accounts with students in schools and universities across the United States.

March 16, 2012 (Main conference)
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Afternoon Keynote:
Conflict Resolution Through the Lens of International Journalism and Education: The Pulitzer Model
Mark Schulte and Nathalie Applewhite, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Cuyahoga Community College, West Campus
11000 Pleasant Valley Road
Parma, Ohio

This session is part of a six-day conference, which begins on March 14. The summit will include pre-conference training sessions, workshops and additional events designed to strengthen existing collaboration on conflict resolution education worldwide. It also is an opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and research on issues related to the development of infrastructure in conflict resolution education. This year's conference, with the theme of "Developing Global Citizens in Schools, Higher Education and the Community,” is hosted by Global Issues Resource Center and Library at Cuyahoga Community College in partnership with colleges and universities as well as numerous local, national, international, non-governmental and governmental organizations. Summit attendees range from educators to policy makers of all levels who will be exchanging ideas and knowledge on conflict resolution education.

About the Speakers:
Nathalie Applewhite, is the Managing Director of the Pulitzer Center. She has played a key role in the development of the Center’s model and approach towards international journalism initiatives and educational outreach. Prior to her work at the Center, she worked as a consultant for the United Nations and as a project manager for the University of Pennsylvania. Her film Picture Me an Enemy (2002), about two young women from the former Yugoslavia, received a Leeway Harmony grant for work that promotes racial, ethnic, and religious tolerance. While pursuing her Master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, she focused largely on the role of media (as education) in war and its potential in conflict prevention, resolution and peace-building. During that time, she also served as a delegate on the Center for International Conflict Resolution’s US-Syria Citizen’s Exchange program.

Mark Schulte, National Education Coordinator at the Pulitzer Center, works to fulfill the Center’s mission to educate middle, high school, and university students on systemic global issues by connecting them to journalist grantees through classroom visits, Skype chats, and other online forms. Before joining the Center, Mark spent a decade teaching global issues journalism at Washington International School in Washington, D.C., where he developed an online student news collaborative that brought students from 50 countries together to report on conflicts and crises in their communities for a global audience. Mark received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and holds a Master’s degree in Interactive Journalism from American University.

Interested in attending? Please register at http://creducation.org/cre/goto/5th