Institute for War and Peace Reporting

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting ( IWPR ) is a founded in 1991, London-based international network for the promotion of free media. It is registered in the UK, the USA and South Africa, and tax exempt.

IWPR has programs in Afghanistan, countries of the Caucasus, and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan) and reported by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Previous project fields were Belarus and the Balkans (Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina). The focus of the work is on free reporting and human rights issues in transition countries.

Working for the network Altjournalisten, regional ( peace ) experts and businessmen. It is funded by the foreign ministries of many countries (the Netherlands, Sweden, USA, UK), and USAID and the EU. IWPR it comes to project support for the establishment of regional coverage, regional media analysis and monitoring of political influences in the project areas. It trains journalists for reporting and manages conferences and round table discussions on social and political issues networks of media representatives, government officials and representatives of civil society.

Managing Director of IWPR 's Anthony Borden, formerly independent Kosovo rapporteur. Numbers of financial resources published the network is not, but be at least 4.1 million Euro / year.

The organization publishes a bulletin often consigned to human rights and development issues, which is available weekly by e -mail.

In 2004, the organization's news agency Pajhwok Afghan News.

2008 Zainab Ahmed was, for their steadfastness and commitment to freedom of reporting, representative of all Iraqi journalists of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting ( IWPR ) awarded the Henri Nannen price.