Budva - The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) is organising a Regional Workshop on media coverage of violent extremism-related topics for journalists from the Western Balkans, on 25 October 2018, in Budva, Montenegro. 

Journalist from all over Western Balkans together with regional and international experts on the subject will discuss the role of the media in fight against violent extremism, terrorism, and the phenomena of social media and online radicalisation.

The Workshop is to be opened by Dragan Pejanovic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro, Amer Kapetanovic, Head of RCC Political Department, Filip de Ceuninck, Regional CT/Security Advisor at the European Union Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Jelka Klemenc, Senior Advisor of the Integrative Internal Security Governance (IISG). 

The event  is a part of  the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) Programme: Integrative Internal Security Governance (IISG)/ The Western Balkan Counter-Terrorism initiative (WBCTi), supported through EU’s Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) II 2016, covering Regional Action on P/CVE in the Western Balkans, in which the Regional Cooperation Council is participating as one of implementing partners. 

Documents: Download: AGENDA 

Source: RCC

Resource Package:

Terrorism and the Media - A Handbook for Journalists (2017) (EN language)Terorizam i mediji - Priručnik za novinare (BS language)