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WiRED International Participates in Symposium at the United Nations

In early December 2003, WiRED participated in a symposium on international communications at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Sponsored by the International Professional Interest Section of the Public Relations Society of America () the meeting drew media and communication specialists from around the county to examine global communication problems that surfaced after the World Trade Center attack and swelled after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. WiRED was represented by Dr. Gary Selnow who spoke in a session titled, "Communicating with the Islamic World." Selnow looked at WiRED's work in Iraq and examined differences in perceptions among Americans in Iraq and Iraqi citizens.

"I saw a group of American men and women who genuinely cared about their work. They put in 20-hour days and displayed an honest concern for Iraq and its people. I never detected a scent of cynicism or defeat, this was as dedicated a group, as committed to the job as I've seen anywhere. . . . For Americans, Iraq is-we hope--a brief chapter. For the Iraqis, the occupation is a consuming part of the ongoing flow of events in their homeland. For Americans, it's troops and officials sent off to do a job. For the Iraqis, it's all encompassing, touching every person, every institution, every feature of life. No one and nothing escapes, and so everyone and everything is swept up in events. The perspectives of the liberators and the liberated, the occupiers and the occupied are hugely different and that difference, which lies at the visceral level, is a part of the story extraordinarily difficult to tell in a news dispatch."

Click below to view pictures and additional information about the symposium.


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