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Strengthening Media and Civil Society Awareness of Conflict: Prevention and Peace-building Cross-Border Issues in West Africa

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This document reports on UNOWA's workshop on reporting for peace, which dealt with three topics - cross-border issues, DDR operations, and the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission approach to border dispute - in relation to conflict prevention and peacekeeping.

The report presents the definition of the major challenges of the Media, and of their responsibilities in terms of people's security, conflict prevention and management, and stability of Governments, that was reached at the workshop.