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WiRED International Participates in Symposium at the United Nations
In early December 2003, WiRED participated in a symposium on international
communications at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Sponsored
by the International Professional Interest Section of the Public Relations
Society of America (http://www.prsa.org/_Networking/international) the
meeting drew media and communication specialists from around the county to
examine global communication problems that surfaced after the World Trade
Center attack and swelled after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. WiRED was
represented by Dr. Gary Selnow who spoke in a session titled,
"Communicating with the Islamic World." Selnow looked at WiRED's work in
Iraq and examined differences in perceptions among Americans in Iraq and
Iraqi citizens.
"I saw a group of American men and women who genuinely cared about their
work. They put in 20-hour days and displayed an honest concern for Iraq
and its people. I never detected a scent of cynicism or defeat, this was
as dedicated a group, as committed to the job as I've seen anywhere. . . .
For Americans, Iraq is-we hope--a brief chapter. For the Iraqis, the
occupation is a consuming part of the ongoing flow of events in their
homeland. For Americans, it's troops and officials sent off to do a job.
For the Iraqis, it's all encompassing, touching every person, every
institution, every feature of life. No one and nothing escapes, and so
everyone and everything is swept up in events. The perspectives of the
liberators and the liberated, the occupiers and the occupied are hugely
different and that difference, which lies at the visceral level, is a part
of the story extraordinarily difficult to tell in a news dispatch."
Click below to view pictures and additional information about the symposium.
http://www.prsa.org/_Networking/international/symposium03.asp
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