The program aims to train and prepare those that intent covering events in war zones. In particular, its purpose is to train the participants for the preparation they should do before their departure, to equip them with the necessary knowledge to cope with the difficulties they have to face while they are in the field and finally, to inform them about issues, such as post-traumatic stress, which will need to be managed upon their return. The program will provide participants with theoretical and practical training.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be trained on the following:

• Introduction to the environment (awareness),
• Challenges & developments in the reporting of wars and crises,
• Law of armed conflicts,
• Field security,
• Dealing with fixers,
• Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT),
• Data security,
• Health, first aid and stress management,
• Basic administrative documents and
• Treatment of trauma.

The program is addressed to professionals in the field of mass media and to students of corresponding departments who are called to cover war situations in news.

Selection will be due to scoring.

Order of priority will be followed.

The curriculum includes two main parts, theoretical and practical field training.

For the development of the training program, in addition to the specialized experience of those involved, research was conducted in order to record both the needs and concerns of young people who would be interested in working as war correspondents, as well as the experiences of war correspondents, so that the result focuses and responds to the real needs of the learners.

Course Description

• Materials in electronic format and presentations from the presentations
• Bibliography:
  • Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2018). War and media the emergence of diffused war. Polity.
  • Allan, S., & Zelizer, B. (2011). Reporting war journalism in wartime. Routledge.
  • Patrikarakos, D. (2017). War in 140 characters: How social media is reshaping conflict in the twenty-first century. Basic Books.

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

For the successful completion of the program, the participants should:

• have attended all the teaching units. Absences may not exceed 10% of the scheduled training hours.
• Attendees will be subjected to written test, practical exercises and case studies.
• have paid all the tuition fees by the end of the training.

Participants, who have attended but not completed successfully, will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance.

For further information, please contact ipjllab@gmail.com