Le réseau des chaires UNESCO en communication, think tank pour une Agence spécialisée des Nations-Unies sous étroite surveillance

• Main Author: Bertrand Cabedoche
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Société Française de Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication 2013-07-01
• Series: Revue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/669

The network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication, a think tank for a specialized agency of the United Nations under a closer lookWhen deciding the creation of UNESCO Chairs in Communications in 1992 and their organization into a world network Orbicom, UNESCO had only return to its fundamentals, when it was obvious to organize inside a place to a peaceful intellectual confrontation, to soften the political temperature inherent to the struggle for power among representatives of states. Stronger now with thirty Chairs in Communication and some 300 associate members, among media, political and economical elites, on the field of international communication, the network is today one more time Under pressure, when the economic gloom and tension diplomatic clog up even the very functioning of the international organization.