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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, University of the West of England, Bristol
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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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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David Bailey, David Bailey, Information Operations Consultant
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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Dr. Mashoed Bailie, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus
current interest/work : Media and conflict; media and reconciliation; Media and the promotion of peace; Cypriot Media and the resolution of conflict
Editor of Global Media Journal : Mediterranean Edition
research : The Cypriot media, the resolution of conflict and the promotion of peace.

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Ekaterina Balabanova, University of Liverpool
current interest/work : Media coverage and media role in international crises and war; 'war on terror' in Eastern European media

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Mark Banks, The Open University
current interest/work : Teaching and Research

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Prof. Francesco M. Battisti, University of Cassino Laboratory of Communications, Italy
current interest/work : Public attitudes about war; events communication

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Anne Beech, Pluto Press
current interest/work : Pluto Press has developed a range of titles in this particular area, and would like to extend our publishing programme further.

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

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.

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

Gwen Bouvier
current interest/work : Researchedthe 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

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

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 .

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.

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

Jeanne E. Clark, Willamette University, Oregon, USA
current interest/work :

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

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

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

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,
current interest/work :

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

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

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

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.

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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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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Peter Goddard, School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool
current interest/work : ESRC-funded research project entitled 'Media Wars: News Media Performance and Media Management During the 2003 Iraq War'. . Other principal researchers involved: Piers Robinson (Liverpool), Robin Brown (Leeds), Phillip M. Taylor (Leeds).
research :part of the ESRC project on Media Performance .

David Griggs, GaiaFilm Productions & Napier University, Edinburgh
current interest/work : researching online eductaion and screen project development for Napier University and for my own company I am developing scripts for documentaries. My main areas of research interest are Ethnographic Filmmaking, Conflict, Conflict Resolution & The Media & The Potentials of Partipatory Video in Conflict Resolution. I am presently considering a PhD based on the impact of the Media in the context of Conflict Resoultion.

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