ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

• Works must have been filmed in or written while reporting from a conflict zone.

  A conflict zone is defined as an area currently experiencing continuous armed confrontation between two or more groups of people. It often involves governmental armed forces and private armed groups. According to the UN, a conflict zone has some or all of the following characteristics:

  • humanitarian suffering on an enormous scale
  • numerous armed factions
  • collapse of the civil infrastructure
  • absence of governance and legal system
  • absence of individual security
  • possibility of ethnic cleansing and genocide
  • large numbers of displaced civilians and refugees
  • unchallenged criminal activities

  For reference, here is a map of the current conflict zone areas according to IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks), a news agency providing independent analysis from hotspots in more than 70 countries. IRIN was originally founded as part of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

  Please note, for the sake of these awards, to be defined as a conflict zone, the area must be facing a continuously reoccurring armed conflict.

• The video or written piece must have been published on a media platform or by a media organization between 1st of January 2019 and 1st of May 2020.
• Applications are accepted in any language from any country.

  This includes works by freelancers, alternative media, and independent journalism platforms.

• Submissions that were the result of a collaborative effort — either written or video — should include the names of the contributors with their respective titles.

  Submissions should then be made under the name(s) of one or two persons who, if the work is selected as a winner, will accept the award.

• All written works must be submitted with an English translation, and all video entries should have English subtitles.

  For more information on English translation, see Technical Requirements.