IIIrd Seminar The Armed Forces and the Media: the Media and armed conflicts
October 14th, 2008
PROGRAM
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and opening remarks
– José Lladó, Ambassador of Spain. President of INCIPE
– Rafael Calduch, President, International Strategic Analysis (AEI) and Professor of International
Relations, UCM. Member of the INCIPE’s Board
– Vice Admiral Jaime Rodríguez-Toubes, Director, Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE), Ministry
of Defence
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:00 Panel I: “The Press and 21st Century Wars”
Chair: Darío Valcárcel, Director, Política Exterior journal. Secretary-General, INCIPE
– Juan Antonio Sacaluga, Journalist and Director of « En Portada » – Spanish Television (TVE) program
– Hermann Tertsch, Journalist, ABC newspaper
– Pedro Antonio Navarro, Journalist, El Siglo magazine. Secretary, Institute of Preventive Journalism and
International Analysis (IPPAI)
– Sherry Ricchiardi, Senior writer editor, American Journalism Review. Professor and Director of
International Media Affairs, Indiana University School of Journalism
12:00 – 12:15 Coffee Break
12:15 – 14:00 Panel II: “The role of war correspondents in armed conflicts”
Chair: Col. Miguel Ángel Ballesteros, Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE),
Ministry of Defence
– MGen. Gonzalo Jar Couselo, Guardia Civil. Ph.D. in Sociology. Secretary-General, Office of Infrastructure
Management, Ministry of Home Affairs
– Felipe Sahagún, Journalist and Member of the Editorial Board of El Mundo newspaper. Professor of
International Relations, UCM
– Ramón Lobo, Journalist, El País newspaper
– Steven Salisbury, Journalist, photographer and war correspondent.Associate Scholar, Foreign Policy
Research Institute of Philadelphia
16:15 – 17:45 Panel III: “The Media and Open Intelligence Sources”
Chair: Rafael Calduch,President, International Strategic Analysis (AEI) and Professor of
International Relations, UCM. Member of the INCIPE’s Board
– BGen Fernando Davara, former Director, EU Satellite Center. Director of the ASIMELEC Foundation
for Knowledge Transfer (FUNCOAS)
– Fernando Velasco, Director of the Chair on Intelligence Services and Democratic Systems, King Juan
Carlos University (Madrid)
– Diego Navarro, Director, Juan Velázquez de Velasco Research Institute on Intelligence for Security and
Defence, Carlos III University (Madrid)
17:45 – 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 Closing session and final conclusions
Chair: Vicente Garrido, Director, INCIPE
– Manuel López Blázquez, Director General for Institutional Defence Relations, Ministry of Defence
