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National Defence Academy,
Training institute
current interest/work :
Components of defence journalism and the hurdles or obstacles in its way

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Helena Nassif, Erasmus Mundus Program
current interest/work :
My specialism will be in War and Conflict in University of Wales- Swansea

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Richard Alan Nelson, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
current interest/work :
Propaganda, Public Diplomacy. Involved in historical research: The Impact of an Antisemitic Nazi News Agency on U.S. Media and Politics. Also, Editor of the Journal of Promotion Management, and Journal of Website Promotion

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Chris Nineham, Stop the War Coalition
current interest/work : Monitoring the media for Stop the War Coalition.

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Lucy Noakes, University of Portsmouth
current interest/work : Women and War. Popular memory of war, especially of World War Two in Britain Impact of war coverage on conceptions of national identity.

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Bent Noerby Bonde, Media Progress
current interest/work : media projects strengthening peace building and conflict prevention

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Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Department of Film & Media Studies, University of Copenhagen
current interest/work : Part of a research-team analysing the Danish media coverage of the invasion of Iraq in march/april 2003 in three national newspapers and on public-service television and radio (quantitative content analysis). Currently, conducting qualitative studies of certain aspects of especially the war-coverange in television, among other things the use of 'live' and 'journalists as experts'

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Chad O'Carroll, Sussex University
current interest/work : Media as a means for mobilising war & exposing genocide
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Ben O'Loughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London
current interest/work : Involved in ESRC project in the New Security Challenges progamme.
research :
Shifting Securities: News Cultures before and after the Iraq War 2003 see also the Shifting Securities website

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José Olmeda, Spanish Open University, Madrid
current interest/work :
Public Opinion and the Use of Force in Contemporary Western Democracies
research :
Spanish Public Opinion toward Security and Defense Policy: Armed Forces and Use of Force in Comparative Perspective, 1991-2003.

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Mark Ørsten, Roskilde University
current interest/work : Danish media and the war on Terror

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Bartholomew O'Shea, University of Portsmouth
current interest/work : Journalist with research interests in propaganda and censorship.

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Sameer Padania, WITNESS
current interest/work : The Hub (http://hub.witness.org) is a global platform for human rights media and action.

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Jerry Palmer, Communications, London Metropolitan University.
Sociology Department, City University
current interest/work : Analysis of thematic material in media coverage of recent optional wars, primarily Kosovo and Gulf War II. I would like to link this to work on media source strategies, but have not so far been able to do so.
research : The Role of Fixers

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Katy Parry, University of Liverpool
current interest/work : Working as a research assistant on an ESRC-funded project at Liverpool University, looking at UK media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War.

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Gregory Paschalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
current interest/work : War Correspondents' Novels/Autobiographies, War Photojournalism

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Chris Paterson , Institute for Communications Studies University of Leeds
current interest/work : investigation of the safety of, and legal protections for, journalists covering war , with a focus on violence against journalists by state actors in the Iraq conflict

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Dragoljub Pavicevic, Goldsmiths College
current interest/work : Embedded journalism, embeds in Iraq,Global media and Iraq War 2003, media-military relations, military propaganda

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Matthew Payne, University of Texas at Austin
current interest/work : War/Militarism and Entertainment Properties (films, video games, TV)

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Sophie Peacock, University of Tasmania (Student)
current interest/work : Representations of war in Japanese animation, with a particular focus on terrorism and child involvement.

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Sean Pepper, University of Exeter
current interest/work : How the media reports war and how fictional work has been affected post 9/11. Media representation of war and fictional representation of the same. Justification of war within a hegemony.

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Max Pettigrew, City University
current interest/work : Studying MA in Political Communications and Society. Previously researched Anglo-American media coverage of the first and second Gulf Wars. Also analysed the media coverage of political violence conducted by non-state organisations.

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Thomas Petzold, Southeast European Media Center, Bulgaria and European University Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
current interest/work : War, Violence on international TV-News.

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Katherine Phillips, Imperial War Museum
current interest/work : post-colonial & internal conflict especially in Commonwealth countries; ethnic conflict; Latin America; South-East Asia; military sociology; etc

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Alejandro Pizarroso Quintero, University Complutense of Madrid
current interest/work : History of propaganda, communications and defence, communications and armed conflict

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Dr Nina Philadelphoff, Monash University
current interest/work : The representation of torture and torture testimony; the relation between torture and language.               

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Shawn Powers, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
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Sirwan Rahman, Freelance
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Myriam Redondo, IE University
current interest/work : ICT's and international journalism. Propaganda. Foreign correspondents. International communication. Political communication

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Abdulnsir Redwan, Universit for Peace
current interest/work : The Role of media in Rwanda genocide both local and international media.

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Dr Paul Reilly, University of Glasgow
current interest/work : The Internet and Terrorism, Framing online communications in post-conflict Northern Ireland, the Internet and civil society

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Peter Rekers, Department of Defence, Australia
current interest/work : Defence media operations

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Stephen Reese, School of Journalism, University of Texas
current interest/work : "war on terrorism"

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Barry Richards, Bournemouth University
current interest/work :
Anti-terrorism, media and publics: the impact on public opinion of media treatments of terrorism,and other risks, and the implications for policy and communication strategies. Psychological dimensions of popular perceptions of war and conflict

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Haydn Rippon, Queensland University of Technology
current interest/work :
PhD on the media-military relationships in asymmetrical warfare with using the Australian involvement in Afghanistan as my principal case study.

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Dr Albert Riedstra, DoD, Netherlands
current interest/work : not working in this area but interested in the subject

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Kristina Riegert, Assistent Professor, Södertörn University, Stockholm Sweden. Currently on a two-year fellowship with Swedish National Defence Academy
current interest/work : Research interests are globalisation, comparative television news, war coverage and propaganda, television's role in national culture and identity and national journalist cultures.
research : The Cultures of the Foreign News Desk: Comparative US and European National Perspectives

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Chris Roberts, Roehampton University.
current interest/work : current research interests are principally the way[s] in which news functions as a discursive strategy [in the Foucauldian sense]that effectively manages ideas [& ideologies] of what constitutes news. I am also particularly interested - having been 'trained' in drama - in the importation of dramatic technique & characterisation into news narratives.
research : The Strategies of Containment and the strategies of resistance: representation[s] in contemporary Television & Television news.

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Linda Robertson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
current interest/work : history of propaganda, propaganda and film, history of air wars, representation of air wars
research : representation of air war in the war in Iraq
                                

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Piers Robinson, Lecturer in International Politics, University of Manchester
current interest/work : Currently researching UK media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War and US/UK media management strategies (ESRC funded with Peter Goddard [Liverpool] and Robin Brown and Phil Taylor [Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds]). Other research interests include media coverage of humanitarian crises, humanitarian intervention and media influence on US foreign policy
research :
MEDIA WARS: News Media Performance and Media Management During the 2003 Iraq War

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Nathan Roger, University of Wales
current interest/work : Currently researching al-Jazeera, looking at the issue of spectatorship and in what ways al-Jazeera have been used strategically by both al-Qaeda and Western Governments in this War on Terrorism.

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Margaret Rogers, Central Queensland University
current interest/work : Shaping opinion:Australian society, media and war

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Ian Roderick, Wilfrid Laurier University
current interest/work : The "revolution in military affairs", in particular, the constitution of 'battlespace'; an integration of personnel, machinery and information systems into a collapsed 'real' and 'virtual' theatre of conflict. Also, how information warfare constitutes 'security' in terms of a globalization of 'risk', media representation of armed conflict, and how warfare is'dematerialized' as global communications systems are transformed into actual 'fields of engagement'.

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Manuel Romero, Universidad Aútonoma de Madrid
current interest/work : media construction of war narrations
media legitimy of violence.

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Laura Roselle, Elon University, USA
current interest/work : My current work is on how leaders use media when confronted with military failures.   I am also very interested in how state identity, especially great power identity, affects media coverage of war.
research :
Explaining Failure: Superpowers, Lost Wars, and Television

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Fazli Rrezja, Kosova Institute of Journalism and Communication, Kosovo
current interest/work : The role of media in discourse construction of protest and violence

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Nel Ruigrok, University of Amsterdam
current interest/work : Role of the media during War on terrorism, conflict Israel/Palestine

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James Russell, De Montfort University
current interest/work : Memorialisation of World War II in contemporary Hollywood blockbusters. The representation of war (both ancient and modern) in mainstream American media (TV and film). The wartime activities of directors, writers, stars and producers in Hollywood (in terms of propaganda and military experience).

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Johnny Ryan, Institute of European Affairs
current interest/work : Radicalisation and terrorist violence

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