Jane Holl
Executive Director, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict

Introduction to the Symposium
Leslie Gelb
President, Council on Foreign Relations

Session One: Ethical Issues in Conflict Coverage

Chair: Donald Johnston
Director, Program in International Media and Communications
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University

Panelists:

Bill Blakemore
Correspondent, ABC News

Michael Ignatieff
Author, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience and Blood and Belonging

Ed Vulliamy
International Reporter, The Guardian
Bureau Chief and Correspondent, Observer

Gadi Wolfsfeld
Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace
Chair, Department of Communication, Hebrew University

Discussant:

Bernard Kalb
Journalist, author and co-host, "Reliable Sources", CNN

Session Two: Training Journalists

Chair:

Anne Nelson
Director, International Program
Columbia School of Journalism

Panelists:

Seymour Topping
Sanpaolo Professor of International Journalism and Administrator of The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia School of Journalism

Edward Girardet
Editor, Crosslines Global Report and President, Media Action International

Kemal Kurspahic
Editor, Connection Newspapers and Former Editor-in-Chief, Oslobejenje

Roy Gutman
Diplomatic Correspondent, Newsday

Discussant:

Tim Carrington
Manager of Economics Journalism Training
World Bank Institute

Session Three: Norms of Conduct

Chair:

Jane Holl
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict

Panelists:

Tom Gjelten
Diplomatic Correspondent, National Public Radio

Robert Manoff
Director, Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, New York University and Chairman, National Press Institute (of the Russian Federation)

Dapo Olorunyomi
Senior Fellow and Director, Nigeria Programs, Panos Institute

Discussant:

Jay Rosen
Professor, Department of Journalism, New York University