Welcome to Paghahabi

    Paghahabi is the Filipino term for weaving materials such as textile, mats, baskets. It also means the weaving or telling of stories.

    In essence, paghahabi reflects the core competency of the AIJC, ie communication. This competency transmits truth, creates understanding, builds community. It brings together the diversity of warp and woof and interlaces them into a single colorful fabric of concord and trust.

    Our e-newsletter Paghahabi tells AIJC's stories. It reflects our efforts to promote understanding amidst diversity through our various communication programs and projects and to build a network of AIJC partners and stakeholders whose stories are intertwined with ours.

    The AIJC is committed to weave a community committed to the common good and the best interest especially of marginalized sectors that need the comfort of a warm woven fabric.

  • Previous Issues
  • May-June 2011
  • April 2011
  • January-March 2011
  • Nov-Dec. 2010
  • Sept.-Oct. 2010
  • August 2010

Tuazon co-authors UNESCO MIL book

UNESCO recently launched the book, Media and Information Literacy: Curriculum for Teachers, which is co-authored by AIJC president Ramon R. Tuazon. It was launched during the First International Forum on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) held on June 15 2011 in Fez, Morocco.

The book aims to enable and empower school teachers to be media and information literate (MIL), as this is the best way to develop media and information literate learners.
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AIJC conducts IEC workshop for Infanta LGU

c4dStaff of the municipal government of Infanta, in Quezon province, attended the three-day seminar-workshop on developing information-education-communication (IEC) materials on July 26-28, 2011.

Conducted by the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication, the seminar-workshop was designed for the specific needs of the Infanta local government unit (LGU). It was held at the AIJC Graduate School in Greenhills, San Juan. read more

Mindanao youth learn techie skills for peace

rrt"The world is filled with different cultures, religion, attitudes and beliefs. Each person differs from another in every form. But I believe that the diversity, the uniqueness, the difference - it's what makes the world so beautiful."

Writing eloquently in English in a blog post entitled "Would You Mind Lending a Hand for a Brighter World?", Nisreen Aini Teo is a 16-year-old Tausug (a Muslim ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines), enrolled in a Catholic school, and was a participant in the "Seminar-Workshop on the Use of ICT in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas" held on August 3-6, 2011 in Zamboanga City. read more

Filipino journalists gain skills in conflict-sensitive reporting

roomVeteran journalists of the Zamboanga peninsula and the island province of Basilan, in the southwestern part of Mindanao in the Philippines, learned about conflict-sensitive journalism during the "Seminar-Workshop on Peace Journalism in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas" which was held on August 8-10, 2011 in Zamboanga City.


The workshop was conducted by the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in partnership with the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (PECOJON), with funding from the UNESCO Office Jakarta and UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines. read more