Universitat de València awarded the 3rd edition’s Manuel Castillo prizes for peace and cooperation journalism. It is a South-North Trust’s initiative, now presided by Guillermo Palao Moreno, which carries on Manuel Castillo’s legacy. This professor worked in Valencia but he had to go into exile in Mexico. He promoted peace and cooperation studies between people and nations. The awards ceremony was held yesterday, February 27th at 19:00 in La Nau’s Sala de Juntas.
These prizes were created in 2009 by the General Foundation’s South-North Trust. They try to honour research and journalism work on this subject in order to raise awareness of the public. The panel of judges this year decided unanimously to award the Valencian researcher María Jesús Martínez Usarralde and the RNE’s journalist Pura Gómez at each category respectively.
In the journalism category, the panel of judges decided to award Pura Gómez for her work as head of the solidarity programme in the Valencian Community’s RNE, ‘Sin Fronteras’. This programme promotes solidarity, peace and human rights for more tan 15 years. It is the first programme of the kind in the Valencian Community. She has worked for medias such as La Verdad, Agencia Efe and El País.
In the research monographs category, the panel of judges decided to award the work by María Jesús Martínez Usarralde for her paper ‘Coop (Red) acción o Cuando la cooperación al Desarrollo se Hace red: webgrafía comentada para apoyo docencia e investigación’. She has also coordinated the monograph titled ‘Cooperación al Desarrollo en Educación: Alianzas con Educación Comparada desde la Perspectiva de Desarrollo’ (on Revista Española de Educación Comparada, No. 17, 2011).
This year’s award winners list is completed with two more women. A second prize has been awarded to Sarai Fariñas for her research ‘El enfoque Almanario como catalizador para el desarrollo de las capacidades colectivas y el fortalecimiento de la agencia fuerte. Estudio del caso en el contexto indígena de Sipacapa. Guatemala’, which has been published in Cuadernos de Investigación en procesos de Desarrollo and edited by the UPV’s Departamento de Proyectos de Ingeniería and the Grupo de Estudios en Desarrollo, Cooperación y Ética.
Another second prize has gone for Emilia Arias for her work ‘No habrá Haití sin haitianas. El papel de las mujeres en la reconstrucción’. This research has been published in the online journal Pikara and it treats wisely the catastrophe and extreme poverty in that country from a gender approach.
The panel of judges, presided by Universitat de València’s Esteban Morcillo, has been made up of experts, researchers, representatives and social agents for Valencian cooperation.
Last update: 27 de february de 2012 12:45.
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