Common Ground News

If you want to be a world op-ed writer and feel confused as to where to send your articles, commongroundnews.org is the answer. The procedure is simple: write a 700-words article and submit it here. If your piece found to be eligible to be circulated by the Common Ground News or CGNEWS editors, you’d find your writing published everywhere around the world and not only in English since your op-ed will also be translated into many languages, including Bahasa Indonesia.

 Where does CG News get the fund from?

CGNews was launched with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other funding for CGNews has come from the European Commission, the British, Canadian, Danish, Norwegian, and U.S. Governments, the Arca Foundation of Washington, DC, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for Democracy, Rational Games and private donors.

CG News is gaining popularity nowadays because it ‘s well-run and– no less important–well-funded. Moreover it’s relatively has a good intention as far as Islam – West relation goes.

Articles which will be taken into account are those which:

• Provide constructive and solution-oriented perspectives;
• Promote dialogue and cooperation;
• Encourage peaceful and non-violent means to resolve conflicts and ease tension;
• Express constructive self-criticism;
• Highlight positive experiences between communities and nations that humanize the other and offer hope;
• Highlight organizations and people working for a better regional and global environment;
• Interpret information, events, polls and analyses in ways that encourage rational, moderate and positive thinking.

Good intention of global dialogue (West -East) is really the need of the hour. But merely good intention is not enough without involving various elements which are closely related to those goals. Fortunately, it’s something the persons behind CG News is fully aware of and that why we can see the multi-polarity of its editors.

The CGNews board of editors comprises individuals in Amman, Beirut, Geneva, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Toronto and Washington, with extensive knowledge of the Middle East, Muslim-Western issues and a “common ground” orientation.

For those who used to send their English articles to the Jakarta Post, it’s time for you to consider sending them to CG News for a lot wider audience.

Last but not least, if you’d like to write on Islam and the West topics don’t forget to read the terminology in Muslim-Western Relation rules of the thumb.

Tips

If you want to seriously contribute for CGNews, read at least three or more articles already published there to have a clue of what kind of style and angle of analysis that CGNews want us to submit.