Brussels, 19 August 2009 (SIGNIS) – The SIGNIS World Congress 2009 to be held in Chiang Mai will include 16 workshops for media professionals from different audiovisual areas. In accordance with the Congress’ theme "Media for a Culture of Peace – Children’s Rights, Tomorrow’s Promise", some of the workshops will be directed towards the theme of media for peace and social transformation.

Jan Servaes will organise an interactive session on the means of Making Community Media Work; in Media in the Internet Age, Steven Gan will reflect on the use of digital media for social transformation; Larry Rich will explore Media Contributing to a New World; GPPAC, the global Partnership for the prevention of armed conflicts will facilitate a workshop on Media for Peacebuilding; God, Religion and Media will look at the representation of God in media; finally, an international panel guided by Peter Malone will reflect on Spirituality in Asian Cinema and on The Asian Cinema Challenge.

For more information on these workshops, please see our website www.signisworldcongress.net under the heading Programme.