Role Model Videos
Role model videos are created to highlight the mission, challenges, and successes of female peacebuilders, social activists, and community workers. Their stories of countering violent extremism are shared in their own words. Till 2021, 25 role model videos were produced and out of those, 15 were created during Media Baithak training in 2020/21 and rest […]
Digital Publications
30 digital publications including video, blogs, and news articles were created from the participants on subject of countering violent extremism. These publications were the part of deliverables of training “Peace and Peacebuilding through Journalism”. Apart from this publication, a digital campaign with the title “Promoting Leadership & Resilience of Women in Media” was also published […]
Trainings
Trainings in Media Baithak were designed purposefully for capacity building of media professionals and members of civil society, so with such empowerment they can play their role of bringing peace and harmony in the society. Tr # 1 – Mobile Journalism Training on mobile journalism held in Media Baithak on 27 April 2019 was an […]
Roundtable Discussions
Roundtable discussions in Media Baithak were arranged particularly to take experts and senior professional’s point of view on issues related to democratic processes, social justice and accountability, human rights, gender equality, and education in order to draft a policy recommendation for legislative body of Pakistan. As per the given objective, in each roundtable discussion several […]
Dialogues & Performances
Dialogues and performances were a series of open-for-all activities in Media Baithak program held during 28 June 2019 to 26 November 2019 for the purpose of sensitization and awareness towards peace, peacebuilding and elevating tolerance in society. 8 dialogues and performances covered a range of topics from sports, qawwali, poetry to theatre, cinema, storytelling, and […]
Laughing Our Way To Peace 2
KARACHI: For a night of insight and humour, Shafaat Ali arrived at Media Baithak to a room jam packed with an anticipating audience. Due to being severely under the weather and at the hospital he was regrettably half an hour late, however there was nothing missing in his zeal and wit. Moderator and president of […]
Dialogue and Performance: Peace In Motion
KARACHI: Society is a reflection of film and film is a symptom of society, that is the message that actor and model Sana Fakhar led the conversation with. Pakistan was once a nation that had over a thousand cinemas and going to cinemas was once a favourite pastime in the country. Now however not only […]
Building Community Resilience Through Public Health To Address Violent Extremism
KARACHI: Public health is erroneously understood as something that pertains solely to medical practitioners and what transpires inside a hospital but Media Baithak decided to explore public health in a more holistic manner so as to include the environment, food and water insecurity, mental health facilities and institutes for rehabilitation of those abused and traumatized. […]
Participation in Active Sports To Develop Peace Building and Resilience in Communities
KARACHI: Sports and physical education are hailed as vital for the physical and psychological development of an individual and community. Pakistan that was once a nation known for producing champions in a myriad of different sports, is struggling to fund even the last remaining sport of cricket in the country. In a round-table session on […]
Digital Writing for Journalists – Approaches for addressing social justice stories in the media
Media Baihtak conducted a digital content strategy workshop for journalists. As many as 24 journalists were trained by senior journalist Lubna Jerrar Naqvi on November 2 (Saturday). The training provided an opportunity to the journalists to not only explore different strategies that can be implemented on social justice stories on digital medium in an interactive […]