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Don Michael Adeniji, Pulse Institute Africa, Nigeria
current interest/work : Mediation, negotiation, peace and conflict resolution training and research

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Daniel M. Ahadi, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada
current interest/work : Media representation of Arabs and Muslims Middle East conflict. War in Iraq. Representation of "Islamic terrorism". PhD research: Fox News Channel's representation of Muslims before and after 9/11

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Sevda Alankus, Eastern Mediterranean Univerisity
current interest/work : peace journalism; representation of women in the war by the media
research : Writing for the peace, without wordings for the Peace: case of Turkish Cypriot Print Media during the Referanda in Cyprus

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Rui Alexandre Novais, University of Liverpool and University of Porto
current interest/work : Research on coverage of Western Sahara conflict and the Panama Crisis (1987-1990)

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Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University
current interest/work : Online news reporting of war

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Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Sabanci University, Turkey
current interest/work : Media and Coverage of the Conflict in Iraq

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Sumaya Alnahedi, London Southbank Universit
current interest/work : Al Jazeera and International Perception

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Ana Sabela Alvarez-Rocha, Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley, University of London and Autonoma University of Madrid
current interest/work : Child & adolescent psychiatry, community psychiatry, stigma & discrimination against people with mental illness, psychosis, trauma, children sexual abuse, risk behavior, suicide attempts, humanistic psychology, resilience, bereavement, medical anthropology, mindfulness, forgiveness & existential crisis.                                        

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Sonia Ambrosio de Nelson, National University of Singapore
current interest/work : News framing of terrorism in Asia; racial and religious issues as a consequence of international terrorism; Islam in Asia; counter-terrorism; control of the media; regional political issues and the'war on terror'; the use of internal security acts against alleged suspect of terrorist activities.

Robin Andersen, Fordham University
current interest/work : The history of war and the media from propaganda to information management and beyond.

Alison Anderson, University of Plymouth
current interest/work : The role of front-line reporters. Terrorism, risk and the Internet.

Nathalie Applewhite, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
current interest/work : Sponsoring journalists to cover under-reported or mis-reported stories in the mainstream US media; exploring the intersection between the media and international affairs generally, and conflict specifically

Nashat Aqtash, Birzeit University, West Bank Palestine
current interest/work : Palestinian and Israeli media war

Cristina Archetti, Institute of Communications Studies, Leeds University
current interest/work : Currently researching for Dr. R. Brown & Prof. P. Taylor about UK/US media management strategies during the 2003 Iraq War. Have worked for Prof. P. Taylor on the role of the media in the UK government's anti-terrorist strategy of "informing but not alarming" the public. Undertaking a PhD about information management and the media in the War on Terrorism.
research : Information Management and the Media: Framing the War on Terrorism

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Rebecca Atkinson,
current interest/work : Vietnam and photojournalism / The media reportage of the Iranian revolution 1979.

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Akil Awan, Royal Holloway, University of London
current interest/work : Virtual jihadist media, Web 2.0, Alternative news paradigms, New political communication.

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M. Irfan Aziz, Department of Mass Communication, Federal Urdu University, Karachi.
current interest/work : Comparative study of major national Pakistani newspapers on War against terror.

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David Bailey,
current interest/work : I am a freelance Influence Operations Consultant who specialises in conceiving, designing building and launching results related IO broadcast radio stations

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Patrick Belanger, University of Southern California
current interest/work : Rhetoric and propaganda

Rebecca Belt, Northern Daily Leader newspaper
current interest/work : Relationship between the military and the media in recording history and how journalism shapes the public's view of warfare and conflict and the military in general.

Caroline Bennett, International Commission on Missing Persons
current interest/work : The influence of media coverage on the investigations of human rights abuses and genocide, especially related to the investigation of missing people

Michelle Bentley, University of Southampton
current interest/work : WMD; constructions of war, mass destruction and other crises e.g. WMD terrorism; threat perception/inflation

Ehab Bessaiso, Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies Dept, Cardiff University,
current interest/work : Media coverage of International conflicts. Al-Jazeera's performance during the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Also the coverage of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, espacially during the years of 'Intifada'.

Michelle Betz, Freelance Journalist
current interest/work : Media and Conflict Resolution.

Anita Biressi, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies,
Roehampton University
current interest/work : Interests include war/violence as spectacle, the boundaries between crime and war and journalism as narrative and ritual. Also, Co-editor (with Heather Nunn) of a special edition of the Journal Mediactive entitled 'Media War' which addresses media coverage of the war in Iraq and the 'war against terror'.

Rena Bivens, University of Glasgow
current interest/work : interested in representations of war and conflict in the mainstream media. I am also interested in the broader relationship between public opinion and foreign policy, particularly the function of the news as an informant for the public
research : International Comparisons of the Production Process of Mass Media Organisations

Miriam Bock, University of Bonn
current interest/work : Thesis (Media M.A) on Media and Peacebuilding, with emphasis on the use of radio in conflict and post-conflict areas

Vivienne Boon, University of Surrey
current interest/work : Media, War and Human Rights as well as Sociology of Terror (which goes beyond the terror as it is used in current political discourses). I am interested in the relation between media, terror/violence and moral philosophy

Anna Borzello, BBC
current interest/work : Worked as journalist in Africa for past ten years. Also 18 months with Africa Service, World Service, BBC in London. Currently BBC Nigeria Correspondent. From 1996-2002 worked for BBC and AFP in Uganda, with focus on rebel groups, particularly the LRA.   Also covered the second war in the DR Congo from side of Ugandan-back rebels.

Emma Boyd, Autograph ABP
current interest/work : I work for a photographic arts agency that promotes exhibitions, events and talks and publishes the work of artists and projects specifically around issues of cultural identity and human rights. I am also doing an MA in Human Rights and my current research is about the visual politics of humanitarianism

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
current interest/work : War, media and empire

Gwen Bouvier
current interest/work : Researched the television representation of 9/11 for PhD including a comparative analysis of 24 hours of news broadcast on two public service broadcasters: BBC (UK) and VRT (Belgium).
research : Completed doctoral work : A Comparative Analysis of the Television Representation of 9/11

Mike Bracken, Royal Air Force
current interest/work : serving RAF Officer who has just completed a 1 year full time Masters in Media and Communication. My interest is in operational media. .
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Marisa Brandt, University of California San Diego
current interest/work : virtual reality as a therapeutic tool for treating soldiers and veterans with PTSD including: the history of treatment for combat-related stress among soldiers and veterans; news media portrayals of soldiers with PTSD; the Vietnam-era anti-war movement and its relationship to the creation of PTSD as a diagnostic category; posthumanism and the culture of simulation and cybernetics; the military-entertainment complex .
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Emma Briant, University of Glasgow
current interest/work : I am a research student looking at the role of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship in determining Propaganda Strategy and focussing on Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
research : Propaganda and Modern Conflicts: The Role of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship

John Brissenden, Bournemouth University
current interest/work : Early stages of PhD research on UK public opinion and Afghanistan war.

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Rachel Broad,Aberystwyth University
current interest/work : Studying a postgraduate module on War and the Media as part of my MA at Aberystwyth University.

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Adam Broinowski,University of Melbourne - Centre for Ideas, VCAM; School of Historical Studies
current interest/work : The Performance of War Images; image reception in the body, representation and image performance, analysing construction of bodies, identities, ideologies, perceptions through popular media and modes of representation.
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Robin Brown, Leeds University
current interest/work : currently working on the effectiveness of coalition news management during the "major combat operations" part of the Iraq Conflict.
research :part of the ESRC project on Media Performance

Emma Broughton, LSE
current interest/work : Role of the media in global conflicts Significance of the shift from "traditional" to "new" media for international relations (theory and practice) .

Sabrina Buckwalter, The Times of India
current interest/work : Conflict in Pakistan and Iraq .

Justin Budd, University of Oklahoma
current interest/work : War, Peace, and the Media .

Abdullah Bugis, KUNA Kuwait News Agency
current interest/work : Correspondent for KUNA in Asian countries .

Anno Bunnik, Utrecht University
current interest/work : The politics of the Middle East and how these politics are broadcast .

Robert Burgoyne, Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews
current interest/work :The subject of "haunting" and cultural trauma as expressed in the war film, and the subject of suicide in the war film, as an expression of individual trauma, military valor, a device to inspire awe and to win converts, and as a form of self-authorship within a war or military context.
Research: Film Nation: Revised Edition and "Haunting in the War film," to be published in a collection devoted to Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. .

Karen Callaghan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
current interest/work :   Currently involved in a project investigating news media coverage of he "spiritual" frames of political leaders during foreign policy crises, with an emphasis present and past foreign policy conflicts in the U.S.

Geoffrey Carliez, Swansea University
current interest/work : Occupation: Erasmus Mundus Student of Journalism & Media; specialisation in War Reporting

Nico Carpentier, Catholic University of Brussels and Free University of Brussels
current interest/work : ideology of war, antagonism and enemy identity construction        
research : North Belgian media coverage during the 2003 Iraqi war

Cynthia Carter, Cardiff University
current interest/work : Children, war, conflict and terrorism; children's online news and chat

Dr Kay Chadwick, University of Liverpool
current interest/work : Second World War radio propaganda

Wei Chai, Fujian Normal University, Fujian Province, China
current interest/work : Comparative media study.

Clever Chapfika, DSCSC
current interest/work : Research on the role of the media in warfare,the relationship between the media and the military and the use of the media in war

Subarno Chattarji, Department of English, University of Delhi
current interest/work : : I am currently working on media representations of conflict and reconciliation in India, focusing on Kashmir and Nagaland in particular.

Mike Chopra-Gant, London Metropolitan University
current interest/work : American Popular Culture after World War Two and, more recently post 9-11 cultural productions in the USA

Christian Christensen, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul
current interest/work : Journalism, international news, media structure and regulation

Caroline Clark, University of Bologna
current interest/work : the war correspondent and the language of war reporting

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Jeanne E. Clark, Willamette University, Oregon, USA
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Sadie Clifford, Cardiff University/Media Diversity Institute
current interest/work : Role of journalism in post-conflict societies, reflexivity of war correspondents

Dr. Tom Clonan, School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology
current interest/work : Retired army officer (Captain) with service in the Middle East and the Former Yugoslavia. Now a lecturer.

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Maria Clulee, Kings College London
current interest/work : The impact of war on popular and aesthetic culture

James Compton, University of Western Ontario
current interest/work : News media discourse and military propaganda

John Conroy, Independent Television and Film Producer-Director
current interest/work : New characteristics of warfare in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the new relationship between the British military and civilian society.

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Maura Conway, Department of Law & Government, Dublin City University
current interest/work : Terrorism and the Internet
research : 'Reality Bytes: Cyberterrorism and Terrorist Use of the Net'

Simon Cottle, School of Jouralism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC)Cardiff University
current interest/work : the changing nature of war and its mediatization

Bob Cotton, Independent news media trainer/consultant; Massey University post-grad student
current interest/work : News media portrayal of Iraq and Gaza conflicts.

Nick Couldry, Department of Media and Communications, The London School of Economics and Political Science
current interest/work : War Games and Mediated Ritual

Professor Nick Cull, University of Leicester
current interest/work : US public diplomacy since 1945, Cultural diplomacy, media/military relations, history of propaganda in the English speaking world.
research : US Overt propaganda since 1945

Trace Currall, Edge Hill University
current interest/work : Playwright (Letters Home Edinburgh Festival 15-30 August 2010 set in the Falklands conflict)and poet (This Panopticon Life, based on my experiences of PTSD) and lecturer at Edge Hill University. My current research is in collabaorative processes in writing trauma.

Neal Curtis, Nottingham Trent University
current interest/work : War, Sovereignty, Technology, Capital
research : War and Social Theory

Stephen Cushion, Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies Dept, Cardiff University,
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Sudhamshu Dahal, Department of Media Sciences, Anna University, Chennai, India
current interest/work : How media (mainly community media) constructs peacebuilding intiatives at grass root level

Julie Lynn Davies,Grand Valley State University
current interest/work : media's coverage and propaganda during World War II

Kathryn Davis, Oxford Brookes University
current interest/work : discourse and semiotic anlysis of newspaper reporting during WWII

Michelle Delaney, City University
current interest/work : The effects of contrasting flows of information between different stakeholders involved in the same conflict

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Susan Dente Ross, Washington State University
current interest/work : peace journalism, media and conflict transformation, media training and networking, borders as sites of conflict/transformation, international media monitoring

Chiara De Franco, European University Institute, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Italy
current interest/work : Impact of visual media on policy making
research : War by Images: From Kosovo to Iraq.             

Oma Djebah, Thisday Newspaper, Iagos, Nigeria
current interest/work : Peace Journalism using the Darfur, Sudan and Nigeria's Niger Delta conflict as case studies
research : The Role of Peace Journalism in Africa: The Nigerian Experience     

Dinesh D Dodamgoda, University of St. Andrews
current interest/work : Propaganda vs. news: Terrorist use of media and the media coverage of terrorism
research : Propaganda vs. News: Terrorist use of media and the media coverage of terrorism

Dr. Aziz Doaui, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology
current interest/work : Public Diplomacy, International Broadcasting, Terrorism and Media

John Downey, Loughborough University
current interest/work : Technology and War. Representations of 'Terrorism'

Leonard Doyle, UNFree Media
current interest/work : Editor and publisher of UNFree Media (unfreemedia.com) which helps jailed, banned and silenced journalists, writers, bloggers and documentary-makers overcome censorship. UNFree Media frees the censored from the grip of state control of the media, so pervasive in many parts of the world, especially where there is conflict.

Robbie Duschinsky, Cambridge University
current interest/work : Representations of the gendered and aged body, relating to classifications of individuals as minors or autonomous agents, in media discourses on military conflict.

Katica Durovic
current interest/work : Religious conflicts and Middle East. Iranian social network site's revolution and role of media in creation of public opinion

Lucinda Dunseath, City University
current interest/work : Relationship between the press and the military since the Falklands War.

Mary Ebeling, Drexel University, Philadelphia
current interest/work : Western media reporting on conflicts in Africa. New communications technologies and journalistic practice, online political discourse, political exile, role of online information and journalism in the creation of political opinions.

Dr Georgia Eglezou, Bournemouth University
current interest/work : Press in WW1 and its Aftermath, War Correspondents in WW1

Rasha El-Ibiary,The American University in Cairo
current interest/work : Cultural Geopolitics, media and political strategies in war and peacetimes, the politics of fear, and the politicization/mediatisation of collective memory. Author of One War, Two Televised Worlds: Comparative Analysis between Al- Jazeera and CNN in Covering the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

Thomas Elkjer Nissen,Royal Danish Defence College
current interest/work : Public Diplomacy, Military Information Operations, Psychological Operations and propaganda

Thor Ekevall, Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies Dept, Cardiff University,
current interest/work : Teaching "International Relations & the Media"

Metin Ersoy, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyrpus
current interest/work : Peace Journalism, news coverage, news framing, agenda setting.
research : News Coverage of the Cyprus Conflict.

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Dr Kate Evans, ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), North Cyrpus
current interest/work : Cultural history of press photography and journalism; histories of the body

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Harold Evans,
current interest/work : Armed Conflict and the media, delving into moral isssues aswell as other major conflicts and the represenatation the media has.

Abiodun Fagbohun, University of Ibadan
current interest/work : Newspaper coverage of the Nigeria Civil War 1967 to 1970

Gavin Fairbairn, , Leeds Metropolitan University
current interest/work : 'War on Terror' and in the ways that media representations influence the ideas that non-Muslims develop about Islam and Muslim people

William Robert Faith, Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism Annenberg School For Communication, University of South California
current interest/work : Lecturer in War and Media at USC's Emeriti Center College

Toyin Fajusigbe : Pan African University, School of Media and Communication
current interest/work : The role of the Media in War and Crisis Reporting

Shamaila Farooq, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
current interest/work : Combating terrorism : role of Western media

Olle Findahl, World Internet Institute, Sweden
current interest/work : War and media in Balkan. The role of the media before the outbreak of war.

Colin Fleming, European University Institute,
current interest/work : Interest in strategic studies, particularly the links between asymmetric war and the media.

Nancy Floyd, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA,
current interest/work : Women in the military
research: Completed She's Got a Gun, 2008, Temple University Press. She's Got a Gun is a visual history about American women who have guns for pleasure (sports shooting and entertainment), power (self-defense), and profession (police officers and military personnel who use guns in their line of duty).

Victoria Fontan, Director, International Peace Studies Program
United Nations-Mandated University for Peace
current interest/work : Fixers, free-lancers, the public diplomacy of insurgency

Kevin Foster, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
current interest/work : The Falklands War: Media, Culture and National Identity, Media Coverage of the Spanish Civil War, War Photography

Dr Paul Fox,
current interest/work : The manner in which conflict has been represented in European visual culture since 1850. I am especially interested in narrative, continuity and the politics of memory formation in relation to sources as diverse as illustrated popular histories, newspapers and film.

Tony Fitzgerlad, Nottingham Trent University
current interest/work : Teaching/scholarship on war and society. The role of media in a 'sociology of war'                                                     

Isabella Stavroula Frangouli, University of La Sorbonne 3, Paris,
current interest/work : Doctorial Student analysing media discourses, concerning the Iraqi conflicts 1990-1991 and 2003-2004: strategies and positionment of the journalists of the British, French and Greek media.

Christos A. Frangonikolopoulos, Aristotle University Thessaloniki
current interest/work : Peace Journalism, Transnational Celebrity Activism, Public Diplomacy, Greek-Turkish disputes and the Media

Des Freedman, Goldsmiths College, University of London
current interest/work : Investigating media structures/policies and implications for coverage of war

Susanne Friedel,
current interest/work : war, media and gender; the role of media in conflicts; reporting about war and the suffering of others.
Research: book project "Krieg, Medien und Geschlecht. Affirmationen und Irritationen sozialer Ordnungen", VS- Verlag Wiesbaden (forthcoming); MA-thesis "Feminized soldiers: Constructing Femaleness in the Israeli army"; foto-reportage about the situation in Kosovo today

Jose Garcia Avilés, Journalism, University Miguel Hernandez de Elche
current interest/work : Television Coverage of the Iraq War on Spanish Networks.
research :Audiovisual Representation of War (1898-2003)

Tom Gardner, Westfield State College
current interest/work : The gendered nature of the media discourse over war, and the role of the media as vehicles for war propaganda and information.

Matthew Gardiner, University of Wales Lampeter
current interest/work : The Korean War in the British and American Media

Romina Gerhards, Queensland University of Technology
current interest/work : The effects of interdependences on today's war and crisis

Prof. Eytan Gilboa, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
current interest/work : CNN Effect Media and International Conflict, Media and Terrorism, Soft and Hard Power, Strategy and Public Diplomacy

Jill Gibbon,
current interest/work : Media Drawing the arms trade