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Cartooning for Peace
The Responsibility of Political Cartoonists?
Venue
United Natons Headquarters in New York
16 October 2006
10:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
The fifth seminar in the Unlearning Intolerance seminar series
of the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI),
entitled "Cartooning for Peace: The Responsibility of
Political Cartoonists?", explored the rights, roles and
responsibilities of political cartoonists in promoting peace
issues.
The anger and divisiveness engendered by the publication
of the caricature of Prophet Mohammed and the controversial
exhibit in 2006 on the Holocaust suggest both a sense of the
power and of the necessity of responsibility in the art of
cartooning. The choice of this particular topic at the present
time has, we hope, offered another opportunity for the United
Nations to be a forum where difficult, but necessary, questions
are raised and addressed, not only to suggest answers but
to spur non-confrontational thought, debate, and enquiry.
The Department of Public Information is grateful
for the generous contribution of
Emory University's
Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning
in support of this Unlearning Intolerance Seminar.
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Invited Participants
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| Jean Plantu,
France |
| Hussein Moustafa,
Egypt |
| Michel Kichka,
Israel |
| Baha Boukhari,
Palestine |
| Hassan Karimzadeh,
Iran |
| Norio Yamanoi,
Japan |
| Liza Donnelly,
US |
| Ranan Lurie,
US |
| Carsten Graabæk,
Denmark |
| Cintia Bolio,
Mexico |
| Godfrey
Amon Mwampembwa, Kenya |
| Ann Telnaes,
US |
| Mike Luckovich,
US |
| Jeff Danziger,
US |
Programme
Registration
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
United Nations lobby, First Avenue at 46th Street
Welcoming Remarks by Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor
10:05 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Opening Statement by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
Annan
10:10 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Keynote Speech by Jean Plantu at Le Monde since
1972
10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Morning Panel
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Should the Cartoonist Educate?
(The Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public
Information to open and moderate the panel discussion)
Question and Answer Session
11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.
Open discussion between and among the panelists, discussants
and the audience
Break
12:25 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Panel
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Should Responsibilities Abridge Rights?
(The Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public
Information to open and moderate the panel discussion)
Question and Answer Session
4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Open discussion between and among the panelists, discussants
and the audience
Closing remarks
5:30 p.m - 5:45 p.m.
Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor and Dr. Holli A. Semetko,
Director of Emory University's
The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning
Webcasts of the entire seminar can be viewed at the: Unlearning
Intolerance Seminar Series Website
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Cartoooning for Peace Exhibit:
In conjunction with the Seminar, an exhibit, organized
by the Outreach Division and the United Nations Regional
Information Centre (Brussels) of the Department of Public
Information, in association with Salon international
du dessin de presse et d'humour de Saint-Just-le-Martel,
showcases the work of cartoonists from Belgium, Denmark,
Egypt, France, Germany, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kenya,
Mexico, Palestine, Switzerland and the United States.
It may be viewed in the Visitors Lobby.
For more information, please write,
providing your name and affiliation, to:
Jose Rene Tanoy, Academic Initiative Section, Civil
Society Service, Outreach Division, DPI
E-Mail: tanoy@un.org; tel.: 1-917-367-9326; fax: 1-917-367-6075
More information about the Unlearning
Intolerance seminar series can be found on the UN
Chronicle Online at www.un.org/chronicle.
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