Channels Academy Partners With Peace Agency To Tackle Hate Speech

Channels Television

A growing source of concern that divides people and societies is the use of hate speech through the social and mainstream media.

It is a trend Channels Academy hopes to check in the coming days, working in partnership with the Peace Media and Peace Tech Lab.

The Director of the Peace Media and Peace Tech Lab, Theo Dolan, who was at the launch of the Channels Academy in Abuja, said his organisation would support the academy’s curriculum.

“With the launch of the Channels (journalism) Academy, we can integrate hate speech training into the academy’s curriculum and that is what we are hoping to do. We’ll be in discussions about that and I think this is something that professional media can learn more about as well,” he said.

Twila LaMarJuly 21, 2017Hate Speech, Channels TV, Nigeria, social mediaComment

PeaceTech Lab Welcomes ChannelsTV Nigeria CEO John Momoh as First International Board Member

PeaceTech Lab has taken another step towards securing its position as an international leader in the use of technology, media, and data to accelerate local peacebuilding efforts with the addition of ChannelsTV CEO John Momoh of Lagos, Nigeria as its newest board member.

For Immediate ReleaseTwila LaMarSeptember 28, 2016Nigeria, media, Channels TV, John Momoh, Sheldon Himelfarb, Board of DirectorsComment

Profits of Peace

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When the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS, rolled into Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, in June 2014, the Iraqi soldiers garrisoned there dropped their guns, discarded their uniforms and fled. ISIS warriors seized abandoned weapons, including reportedly six American-supplied Black Hawk Helicopters, and piles of cash stored in banks.

Twila LaMarApril 19, 2016PeaceTech Summit, Sheldon Himelfarb, ISIS, Channels TV, PTX, groundTruth, OSRx, Iraq, data, peacetech, Terrorist Attacks StorymapComment

PeaceTech Lab and Channels TV Sign Partnership Accord, Agree to Develop Hausa TV Initiative

The PeaceTech Lab and Nigeria-based Channels TV have agreed to pursue joint initiatives using media in combination with data and technology to foster long-term peace and prosperity in northern Nigeria and the surrounding region. The agreement’s implementation will begin immediately with the joint development of Nigeria’s first, independent Hausa-language television news network to serve northern Nigeria.

Kelly HoyeMarch 23, 2016PeaceTech Lab, Nigeria, Television, Channels TV, Sheldon Himelfarb, John Momoh, extremismComment