Originally, Radio La Benevolencija was the affiliate of a Jewish welfare organization by the same name based in Sarajevo, Bosnia.ĭuring the Balkan war of the 1990s, the organization took a neutral position and provided a safe haven, food and medicines, to all ethnicities in the city while it was under siege.Īt the time, Weiss founded a Dutch affiliate that supported the Sarajevo organization financially and politically.
Weiss is an Austria-born filmmaker who has been involved in humanitarian projects for decades. "We teach people to recognize incitement so that they can act against it."
"We are in the business of media education," says George Weiss, founder and director of the Amsterdam-based NGO. La Benevolencija also plans to develop activities in the Netherlands, to help the Dutch cope with their own ethnic tensions. The organization produces radio shows and media campaigns in central Africa with the aim of helping locals understand the workings of political propaganda and withstand incitement to ethnic and racial violence.
Amsterdam - Can a soap opera educate people and stop ethnic violence? Dutch non-government organization Radio La Benevolencija thinks it can.
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