You can watch the entire video of the 60-minute Lunch Talk on YouTube.
Wali Hashi has worked as a journalist for about 25 years both in Finland and abroad. Wali is also passionate about grass root peacebuilding in East-Africa, and he currently works as a specialist for the Finnish Foundation for Media and Development (Vikes) that has been operating in Somalia since 2014 and trained over 1000 journalists or authorities all over Somalia.
The idea of the “Forgiveness Campaign” that Wali has founded, is to use media to contribute peace and reconciliation in Somalia which has suffered civil war of the last decade. Here are three videos that tell you more about Wali’s work:
Forgiveness in East Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0cxsNbks3E&t=21s
About Forgiveness Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvuRfZjykcw
Abdirizak Ahmed shares his story of forgiveness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up3f6Y8fgkg&t=19s
Allan Leonard is a co-founder and managing editor of Shared Future News, an online publication dedicated to providing news, information, and personal stories on peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and beyond. Allan has served in senior management positions in several charities established to promote peace and reconciliation, where he also gained international experience supporting programmes in other divided societies.
He is also a co-founder of FactCheckNI, Northern Ireland’s first and only dedicated fact-checking service, and is treasurer of the Belfast and District branch of the National Union of Journalists.
Here are some more links about Allan’s work:
Reporting the Troubles: a swirl of emotions: https://sharedfuture.news/reporting-the-troubles-a-swirl-of-emotions/
Reporting the Troubles 2: an important storytelling contribution: https://sharedfuture.news/reporting-the-troubles-2-an-important-storytelling-contribution/
The media’s role in peacebuilding: none of its business?: https://sharedfuture.news/the-medias-role-in-peacebuilding-none-of-its-business/
Shared Future News reference to constructive journalism: https://sharedfuture.news/about/constructive-journalism/
Fact checking as a tool for reconciliation (FactCheckNI): https://factcheckni.org/articles/news/new-website-northern-ireland-hopes-fact-checking-will-tool-reconciliation/
Peace Journalism Principles and Practices, by Steven Youngblood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29808877-peace-journalism-principles-and-practices