Perspectives on freedom
Miklos Haraszti:
International organizations work relatively outside the national political processes – this is what makes the word “strategy” somewhat applicable to them. Only when all member states have pledged to the nice principles of democracy has the time arrived for the kind of strategies that – for example – people fighting against death penalty used. (If it were left to individual countries, very few of them would adopt a ban on death penalty…) Quality-of-freedom type strategies have the best chances to succeed in the world of free expression, free press, and free media; like the campaigns to make public broadcasting a transparent business; or decriminalise libel; or repeal insult laws; or provide access to data of public interest; or remove arbitrariness from classifications. Where international accord about principles is less manifest, like in the case of limits of free speech, strategies have to be more modest, and dilemmatizing the issue is already a success…
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Miklos HARASZTI
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Vienna
| 1964-1970 | Philosophy and Literature, M.A., Budapest |
| 1970-1971 | Put under "Police surveillance", machine-operator in a Hungarian tractor factory |
| 1976 | Co-founder of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement |
| 1980 | Editor of the samizdat periodical BeszélQ |
| 1989 | Participation in the "round table" negotiations on transition to free elections |
| 1990-1994 | Member of the Hungarian Parliament |
| since 1994 | Guest professor on human rights, censorship, democratization, freedom of the media |
| 1998 | Northwestern University's Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1997-2004 | Parliament-elected Board Member of Hungarian Radio and Television |
Dr. Günther RAUTZ
Coordinator, Institute for Minority Rights, European Academy of Bolzano-Bozen
| Absolvent der juridischen Fakultät der Universität Graz und theologisch-philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck | |
| Forschungsprojekte an der juridischen Fakultät der Universität Bari und "La Sapienza" Roma | |
| Absolvent des Medienkundlichen Lehrganges der Universität Graz | |
| Minderheitenexperte und Koordinator im Forschungsbereich "Minderheiten und Autonomien" der Europäischen Akademie Bozen (EURAC) |
Roger DE WECK
Generaldirektor, SRG SSR - Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft, Zürich
| 1976 | Abschluss, Wirtschaftsstudium, St. Gallen |
| 1992-1997 | Chefredakteur des Zürcher "Tages-Anzeigers" und Mitglied der Tamedia-Unternehmensleitung |
| 1997-2000 | Chefredakteur, Die Zeit, Hamburg |
| seit 2000 | Publizist in Zürich und Berlin |
| seit 2001 | Gastprofessor am Europa-Kolleg, Brügge und Warschau |
| seit 2002 | Moderator der TV-Sendung "Sternstunden" (SF1 und 3SAT) |
| seit 2004 | Chairman of the Board, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies HEID, Genf |
| seit 2010 | Generaldirektor SRG SSR, Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft, Bern |
| Mandate: | |
| Dozent, College of Europe, Brügge und Warschau/Natolin | |
| Stiftungsrat Internationaler Karlspreis Aachen | |
| Groupe de veille France-Allemagne, Institut Montaigne Paris | |
| Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Zeitschrift "Critique internationale", Paris | |
| Herausgeber der außenpolitischen Buchreihe "Standpunkte" (Edition Körber-Stiftung Hamburg) | |
| Kuratorium Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung Stuttgart |
