Peace Building Process: Media Can Be A Filter To Hate Speech-Eugene Nforngwa.
By Raymond Dingana A three-day workshop organized by # Defyhatenow in partnership with Africa Knowledge and Policy Center -AKPC under the theme: Catalysing Media for Peace and Justice in Cameroon has come to end. The capacity building was focused on training journalists on Conflict Sensitive Reporting. The over twenty media practitioners from the North West Region of Cameroon that answered present in Bafoussam, from the 08-10 October 2020 were made to understand that, their role in Peace Building cannot be ignored. As indicated by the main resource person, Eugene N.Nforngwa of AKPC, the media can be a filter of hate speech: “ In spite of the fact that, hate speech is such a big deal, media can actually become a filter to hate speeches from the society either by completely cutting them out from their reporting and also taking active steps in correcting misperceptions of other groups based on their identities such as religion, ethnicity and otherwise, ” Eugene Nforngwa said