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Who Tell the Truth? The documentary on the media coverage of Fukushima 福島原発報道

Are we really safe? Who tell the truth? - This documentary contains the interview with residents in Fukushima, Japan. They told us that the nuclear disaster in March 2011, the fear of radioactivity and suspicion about the Japanese government, TEPCO and Japanese media coverage. It was filmed through Skype. 真実を言っているのは誰なのか?私たちは本当に安全なのか?ー福島の原発事故への政府、東電の対応やメディア報道のあり方について、福島在住の方々にインタビューしたもの ­をまとめました。制作中はコスタリカ在住だったため、インタビューはすべてスカイプで行いました。 Documentary By :  Chihiro Imaizumi (Worked in the TV production company and is an editor in a newspaper in Japan). Currently, she is in an MA candidate at UN mandated University for Peace). Shahbaz Israr Khan assisted the producer in editing the subtitles of the documentary.

Reconstructing the Notion of Youth

By Dr. Shahbaz Israr Khan Published by Peace and Conflict Monitor on June 01, 2012   Link: http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=913 Analysis II Youth are variously described as the hope and future of our species or the most irresponsible and potentially violent of our kind. Unfortunately, it seems as though this later view has gained ground among certain social critics who see a large youth populations as potentially destabilizing to society. As Shahbaz Israr Khan argues, it's time to reconstruct our notion of "youth". “Our civilization is doomed if the unheard-of actions of our younger generations are allowed to continue.” [1] This inscription was found on a 4000 years old tablet in Sumerian city of Ur. But unfortunately, in the world of today youth is one of the marginalized segments of the society and most of the policies of the governments of the world are unable to address and hea