Christian Palme
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Christian Palme, born 15 July 1952 in Uppsala
, is a Swedish communications expert, journalist
and writer
. He is a son of the late historian
, professor Sven Ulric Palme and brother of professor
emeritus
Jacob Palme.
, Swedish public service
radio
Sveriges Radio
and the news agency
United Press International
. In 1984 he was appointed correspondent
in Denmark
for the Swedish national daily Dagens Nyheter
and in 1993 he became correspondent in Eastern Europe
and the Balkans
for Dagens Nyheter
. He has also been employed as intelligence analyst with Swedish Military Intelligence and as Public Affairs Adviser with the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
As correspondent in the Balkans Palme became known for his impartial coverage of the Yugoslav wars
. When the UN Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) in 1993 in The Hague
, Palme was one of the first journalists to understand its significance. In the following years he wrote a large number of features in Dagens Nyheter
on the war crimes tribunal and in 2002 he summarized his observations in the book Om ondskan i vår tid - Sökandet efter rättvisa på Balkan (Evil in Our time – The Quest for Justice in the Balkans), which was hailed by newspaper reviewers as one of the best books on the Balkan wars published in Sweden. He later followed up the discussion of war crimes in the Balkans with the documentary film
Peace Without Justice (with Bengt Nilsson, produced and financed by Swedish public service
TV Sveriges Television
(2003)). In 2004 Christian Palme was awarded the Eldh-Ekblad Peace Price by the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
(Svenska Freds- och skiljedomsföreningen) in recognition of his groundbreaking journalism promoting the emerging international criminal justice system.
In 2004 Christian Palme left Dagens Nyheter
to become Public Information Adviser in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
(ICC) in The Hague
. In 2007 he returned to Sweden
and after a spell as project manager with a private communications agency he was appointed Media and Communications Adviser with the Nordic Africa Institute
, a government
thinktank and centre of excellence for research on modern Africa
, based in Uppsala
, Sweden
. In 2010 he was awarded the Swedish Publishing Award
(Svenska Publishing-Priset) for his work shaping the Nordic Africa Institute Annual Report 2009.
Uppsala
- Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...
, is a Swedish communications expert, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
. He is a son of the late historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, professor Sven Ulric Palme and brother of professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...
Jacob Palme.
Career
As a young journalist Christian Palme worked with the Swedish national daily Svenska DagbladetSvenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...
, Swedish public service
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...
radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio AB – Swedish Radio Ltd – is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - like Sveriges Television - shares many characteristics with...
and the news agency
News agency
A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is Agence...
United Press International
United Press International
United Press International is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century...
. In 1984 he was appointed correspondent
Correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...
in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
for the Swedish national daily Dagens Nyheter
Dagens Nyheter
is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...
and in 1993 he became correspondent in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
and the Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
for Dagens Nyheter
Dagens Nyheter
is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...
. He has also been employed as intelligence analyst with Swedish Military Intelligence and as Public Affairs Adviser with the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
As correspondent in the Balkans Palme became known for his impartial coverage of the Yugoslav wars
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
. When the UN Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...
(ICTY) in 1993 in The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Palme was one of the first journalists to understand its significance. In the following years he wrote a large number of features in Dagens Nyheter
Dagens Nyheter
is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...
on the war crimes tribunal and in 2002 he summarized his observations in the book Om ondskan i vår tid - Sökandet efter rättvisa på Balkan (Evil in Our time – The Quest for Justice in the Balkans), which was hailed by newspaper reviewers as one of the best books on the Balkan wars published in Sweden. He later followed up the discussion of war crimes in the Balkans with the documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Peace Without Justice (with Bengt Nilsson, produced and financed by Swedish public service
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...
TV Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
(2003)). In 2004 Christian Palme was awarded the Eldh-Ekblad Peace Price by the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society , or Svenska freds- och skiljedomsföreningen, is a non-governmental organization in Sweden, dedicated to peace, disarmament and democratization. It operates by methods including publishing, lobbying, activism and participating in political debates. SPAS has...
(Svenska Freds- och skiljedomsföreningen) in recognition of his groundbreaking journalism promoting the emerging international criminal justice system.
In 2004 Christian Palme left Dagens Nyheter
Dagens Nyheter
is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...
to become Public Information Adviser in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
(ICC) in The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
. In 2007 he returned to Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and after a spell as project manager with a private communications agency he was appointed Media and Communications Adviser with the Nordic Africa Institute
Nordic Africa Institute
Nordic Africa Institute serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. The Institute also encourages research and studies on Africa. The institute was founded in 1962....
, a government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
thinktank and centre of excellence for research on modern Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, based in Uppsala
Uppsala
- Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. In 2010 he was awarded the Swedish Publishing Award
Swedish Publishing Award
The Swedish Publishing Award is an annual award for newspapers, magazines, books and other printed products. The award has been conferred annually since 1990 by the journal Populär Kommunikation in a number of categories of printed communication...
(Svenska Publishing-Priset) for his work shaping the Nordic Africa Institute Annual Report 2009.
Awards
- Eldh-Ekblad Peace Price 2004
- Swedish Publishing AwardSwedish Publishing AwardThe Swedish Publishing Award is an annual award for newspapers, magazines, books and other printed products. The award has been conferred annually since 1990 by the journal Populär Kommunikation in a number of categories of printed communication...
2010