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| Equipa da Rhode Island College, Jornalistas Lusófonos, Vereador da Cultura da Câmara Munciapal do Tarrafal de São Nicolau, Adildo Soares Gomes, numa visita à Escola Secundária Pedro Corsino de Azevedo. |
RIC Team Travels to Cape Verde to Promote Community Radio for Peace
Three
Rhode Island College faculty and staff members travelled to Cape Verde during
spring break last week to help promote the use of community radio for peace.
Valerie
Endress, associate professor of communication, Peter Mendy, associate professor
of history and African studies and Marie R. Fraley, interim director of the
Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies, spent five days on the
island of São Nicolau in the archipelago of Cape Verde.
“The
purpose of the trip was to gather additional information regarding the
conditions necessary for the training of Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) radio
journalists in civic radio in Cape Verde and in peace radio in neighboring
Guinea-Bissau in West Africa,” Fraley explained.
The
Peace Radio project is an ongoing initiative begun under a Protocol of
Cooperation signed in September of 2010 by President Nancy Carriuolo on behalf
of Rhode Island College and Former First Lady of Portugal Maria Barroso Soares,
President of the Pro Dignitate Foundation for Human Rights in Lisbon, Fraley
said.
Some
of the activities accomplished thus far have included an international
conference on the topic of Peace Radio and a series of workshops for local
Portuguese-speaking journalists held at Rhode Island College.
This
collaboration with Rhode Island College is through invitation of the Pro
Dignitate Foundation because of the Portuguese Institute’s mission to study
issues of the Lusophone diaspora spread throughout the world, Fraley said. It
also is designed to help forge connections with the diverse Lusophone
communities represented in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts. “Immigrants
and their descendants from the countries of Portugal, including the Azores and
Madeira, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique make up the
local Portuguese-speaking population,” she said.
While
in Cape Verde, the Rhode Island College team met with officials of the local
municipality of Tarrafal on the island of São Nicolau, held discussions with
radio journalists from Guinea-Bissau and visited many local sites, such as the
local high school in Tarrafal and the site of the former political prison.
Notícia publicada no site da RIC: http://www.ric.edu/news/details.php?News_ID=2105
