DRC / Strategy
In the DRC, Radio Benevolencija organizes communication campaigns in the form of radio programs and community activities and, starting in 2008, television programs. target groups of Great Lakes Reconciliation Radio in the DRC are the population at large, victims and perpetrators of human rights violations, and opinion leaders.
Specific objectives:
1. To inform and educate the targeted population on the factors and influences that lead to violence between groups, in order to prevent new violence.
2. To encourage the population to resist the above influences and provide them with role models who do so peacefully, without endangering their own lives.
3. To inform and educate the population on the comprehension and recognition of the signs of trauma, acceptance and healing with the aid of the RICH approach (Respect, Interconnection, Communication & Hope).
4. To encourage political and community leaders nationwide, as well as various communities that perpetrate inter-ethnic violence in the Eastern Congo, to develop attitudes conducive to the institution of peace, social stability and democracy.
5. To discourage the use of events in the Kivu provinces in the internal politics of the DRC.
6. To support and train media professionals throughout the nation in order to prevent propaganda and the dissemination of discriminatory information among communities.
The DRC encourages the proliferation of independent private religious, commercial and community broadcasters. In the eastern provinces of South and North Kivu, the number of private radio stations has been increasing rapidly in recent years, while in Kinshasa more and more independent TV stations are steadily gaining in popularity.
Radio Benevolencija aims to be active within the country's media landscape. It will broadcast via selected media throughout the DRC, FIRST RADIO, THEN TV to address attitudes that threaten to generate further conflict in the Great Lakes region as a whole.
DRC / Country background
Size, natural resources and population make the Democratic Republic of Congo one of the giants of Africa . Warlords, rebel chiefs, heads of militia, entrepreneurs and other corrupt groups all contribute to wreaking chaos in the region.