On November 7th, 2024, Cartooning for Peace convened a roundtable as part of the World Forum of Democracy, which took place at the Council of Europe from Nov 6th to Nov 8th. Please find below more details about the roundtable:
Press cartoons: an antidote to populism and a medicine for democracy
The brutalisation of political life, the impoverishment of public debate, the instrumentalisation and radicalisation of opinions, the increase in disinformation, the rise of populism, the danger of authoritarianism… These are just some of the ills that threaten our ‘democratic fatigue’. And yet there are remedies available before the disease is complete: aren’t art and humour formidable weapons against the autocrats of all stripes who impose censorship? How can press cartoons help to defend the fundamental rights and freedoms that make up democracy? How can we caricature our society when reality itself becomes a caricature?
With:
Zehra Ömeroğlu (Türkiye), press cartoonist and member of Cartooning for Peace
Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands), cartoonist and member of Cartooning for Peace
Emanuele del Rosso (Italy), cartoonist and member of Cartooning for Peace
Alberto Godioli, Associate Professor of European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, Director of the ‘Humour in Court’ project
Moderator: Jean-Paul Marthoz, editorial co-ordinator of the Annual assessment of press freedom in Europe by the partner organisations of the Safety of Journalists Platform
A full recording of the roundtable is now available here.