Cordillera Day
July 16, 2007July 15, 2007— is Cordillera Day…
This is a time for us to look back and thank our leaders for their contribution to what Cordillera is today. All of us are instruments to making Cordillera a beautiful place to live in. Let us love this place and cherish it… be proud you are a Cordilleran
Communication for Peace Award
July 5, 2007World Association for Christian Communication
Communication for Peace Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people’s common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community, and challenges tyranny and oppression. Being WACC means ‘taking sides’.
WACC will present a Communication for Peace Award during its 2008 Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, to a woman or man who has consistently, dynamically and creatively demonstrated the value of communication for peace in a particular context. Consistent with WACC’s Christian Principles of Communication, she or he will be a person of faith and be recognised as a public voice of conscience.
Criteria
An individual who, as a communications professional, has:
- shown sustained dedication and commitment to communicating and promoting a culture of peace, social justice, and the alleviation of conflict;
- demonstrated extraordinary and exemplary initiative in advancing peace with justice and steps toward reconciliation;
· contributed to a substantial effort toward winning or preserving peace and justice for groups of people whose circumstances make them vulnerable to prejudice, discrimination, or injustice.
Nominations
Nominations must be accompanied by evidence of activities and achievements of the nominee and sent to WACC (AWARD@waccglobal.org) before 1st September 2007.
