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Laila Hotait Salas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
current interest/work : Lebanese postwar cinema. Relation between Lebanese cinema and society.
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Athanassios N. Samaras, IMM
current interest/work : Representation Of Armed Conflict, Anti-Americanism, Frame Theory, Home Front Management, International Communication
research : The representation of 11/9 in the Greek Media
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Pablo Sapag Muñoz de la Peña, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
current interest/work : War correspondents´ history and current practice. War journalism in general. War and television
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Dr Ron Schliefer, NCSSC Israel
current interest/work : psyop and military-media relations
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Alex P. Schmid, The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University St Andrews
current interest/work : Terrorism and the media. Have thee PhD students writing on violence and communication interface.
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Michele Schoenberger-Orgad, University of Waikato, New Zealand
current interest/work : The use of public relations tactics in the dissemination of information during war.
research : The ultimate public relations challenge: Legitimizing NATO and its humanitarian intervention in Kosovo
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Claire Scott, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
current interest/work : The way war is represented in the media from a linguistic perspective.
research : Reporting war: a diachronic, functional perspective
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Philip Seib, Marquette University
current interest/work : Effects of technology/new media on diplomacy, democratization, etc.
research : Philip Sieb's research.
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Tiina Seppälä, International Relations, Department of Social Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi (Finland)
current interest/work : power/knowledge, war, resistance, U.S. role in the international system (empire/hegemony/hierarchy), internet activism, media, propaganda, information warfare, public diplomacy, soft vs. hard power, public opinion etc.
research : The Global Internet-based Anti-War/Peace Movement and Alternative Media on the Web as Challengers of the U.S? The Struggle for Information and Interpretations of the War on Iraq’ (forthcoming in 2008/09) See Tiina's own researchpage
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Ms.Heeru Sajnani, Symposium Institute of Media and Communications
current interest/work : Research on how media has played an important role during WW1 and WW2.
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Christina Sgouromiti, Academy of Fine Arts, Athens
current interest/work : : Research project: Art as a tool in social and cultural transformation. Areas of interest include topography and the war drawings,nomadism, conflict and cultural transformation
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Md. Shamsul Islam, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies, Stamford University, Bangladesh
current interest/work : Media and security of the small states, media's role in combating terrorism in South Asia etc.
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Shirin Shafaie, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
current interest/work : misrepresantions of Iran (Islamic Republic) in the Western media and literature.
research: The Holy Defence: A Dialectical Criticism of Iranian War Culture. CASMII (Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran)http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/
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Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, University of the West of England
current interest/work : western media coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone(1996 -2001 ) on January 28 2006. Now a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Media and Cultural Studies at the UWE.
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Martin Shaw, University of Sussex (see martin's web page)
current interest/work : Role of media in the contemporary 'global surveillance' mode of warfare, and especially in the management of political risk in Western 'risk-transfer' war: see forthcoming book 'Ruling Risks: The New Western Way of War and its Crisis in Iraq' (Polity early 2005).
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Eugenia Siapera, Anglia Polytechnic University
current interest/work : Historical analyses of war and communication; digital media and war; democratic politics, war and the internet
research : Communicating War in History
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Eleni Sideri, Suny-Skopje
current interest/work : Representation of migration, gender, trauma and memory in South Europe and the Black Sea
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Alvaro Sierra, El Tiempo (a newspaper), Bogota, Colombia, University for Peace, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
Medios para la Paz (Media for Peace), an NGO designing courses on conflict and post conflict coverage for Colombian journalists
current interest/work : The role of the media in conflict prevention and peace building
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Francesca Silvani, Panos Institute
current interest/work : Director of Editorial Programmes at Panos, an NGO specialising in supporting the local media in developing countries. We have a Conflict and Media Programme.
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Stefan Simanowitz, Free Western Sahara Campaign
current interest/work : Stefan Simanowitz is a London-based freelance journalist, mediator and human rights campaigner. He has worked for the ANC, Liberty and the European Commission and various campaigns including the Human Shield Movement and the Reg Keys Campaign. He is chair of the Westminster Committee on Iran and runs the Free Western Sahara Network.
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Greg Simons Crisis Management Research and Training and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University
current interest/work : How Russian mass media and journalists handle the issue of reporting on the Russian war on terrorism. Also looking at the media situation in Iraq.
research: No working Title - Mass media during the Iraq War. Comparision between American war on terrorism with the Russian war on terrorism.
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Michalis Simopoulos Cyprus Community Media Centre
current interest/work : Presently looking into ways to engage media stakeholders in dialogue for improved future collaboration in the field.
research: Collaborative Media Initiative: The separation of the two main communities in Cyprus has led to the development of two separate media systems.
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Tony Skinner, Janes Information Group
current interest/work : At Jane's Defence Weekly we are mainly concerned with defence policy, armed forces issues and defence industry developments. While this normally takes the form of "bigger picture" issues rather than coverage of day to day developments in conflict areas such as Iraq, we have scope to focus on certain aspects of war and media.
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David Slocum, New York University
current interest/work : Film and media historian. My interests range over cultural representations and imaginaries of violence, conflict, terrorism, and war.
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Geroge Socrates Kazolias, American University of Paris
current interest/work : professional reporter and often go to war zones and I am teaching a class on media and conflict
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Nancy Snow, California State University
current interest/work : war, media, and terrorism; public diplomacy in wartime. See Nancy's website
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Marco Solaroli, University of Milan
current interest/work : Photojournalism, post-9/11 mediatized conflicts and global crises; cultural field of war photojournalism in Italy; war visual culture; processes of construction of iconic photographs of the war in Iraq (2003-).
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Keith Spicer, Semi-retired from University for Peace (Costa Rica). Was from 2000 to 2007 founding director of the Media, Peace & Security Program there.
current interest/work : Am now researching a book on how the Western media focus too much on bombs, weapons and troops -- and not enough on history, culture and religion -- in explaining internationalism terrorism.
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Chindu Sreedharan, Centre for Public Communication, Bournemouth University
current interest/work : Media coverage and the Kashmir conflict. Studying what contributions the media can make to resolving international conflicts, with special focus on the Kashmir situation.
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Julian Stallabrass, Courtauld Institute of Art
current interest/work : Curating and writing about photography and war.
research: Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images, Brighton Photo Biennial, 2008 (A series of events and exhibitions about the photographic representation of war.)
For more info click here
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Simon Stander, University for Peace
current interest/work : Associate professor in Peace Studies, responsible for launching new MA programme Media, Peace and Security
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Marc Stanton, Edge Hill University College
current interest/work : I am the Broadcast Journalism lecturer for Edge Hill
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Erin Steuter,Mount Allison University
current interest/work : Media representations of the War on Terror
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Ann Strahm,Department of Sociology
California State University, Stanislaus
current interest/work : U.S. Prestige Press reporting of war and occupation
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Isabella Streffen,Newcastle University
current interest/work : Relationship between artistic and military vision; military visioning technologies; the military imagination and dissemination; Blue Streak. PhD research 'I Spy With My Military Eye' (PhD by practice)
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Nicole Stremlau,Swansea University
current interest/work :
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Neha Sud, Stanhope Centre
current interest/work :M.A. student of war and conflict journalism
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Jacky Sutton, United Nations Development Programme
current interest/work :media development; media capacity building; policy frameworks
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Poonam Taneja, BBC
current interest/work : Reporter BBC radio
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Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia
current interest/work : Completing a book on military women in cinema and television since WWII
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Lieutenant Commander Steve Tatham , United Kingdom Defence Academy (Advanced Research & Analysis Group)
current interest/work : The military / media relationship.
Influence operations.
The use of soft power and non-kinetic activity
Strategic communications. See Steve's website
research : The use of soft power to ameliorate Jihadist Ideology
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Angus Taverner, Blue Bear Communications
current interest/work : Manage the relationship between the media and the military during operations. I am the author of the current MOD policy and doctrine for this area and I am currently re-writing the MOD 'Green Book'.
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Ian Taylor, Department of Social Sciences,
Loughborough University
current interest/work : The media relations of the anti-war movement.
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Phil Taylor, Institute for Communication Studies, University of Leeds
current interest/work : Military-Media Relations, Perception Management (i.e. propaganda), Public Diplomacy (i.e. 'soft' propaganda), PSYOPS, The struggle for hearts and minds in the 'war' on terror.
research : MEDIA WARS: News Media Performance and Media Management During the 2003 Iraq War
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Chris Tenove
current interest/work :Freelance Journalist
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Shyam Tekwani, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
current interest/work :former journalist covering war in south asia, my current interest and work centres around the role of media and conflict as an educator and researcher.
research: Serendip to Sri Lanka. Two book projects on the war in Sri Lanka are underway - one, a photo book based on my experiences as a photojournalist on the frontlines in the company of the LTTE and the other on the recently-ended war in Sri Lanka.
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Jennifer Terry, University of California
current interest/work : Gender, network based military operations, histories of morale management, immersive entertainment modes as recruitment and training tools.
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Sara Terry, The Aftermath Project
current interest/work : Post conflict, aftermath related photography and documentary film projects. Currently working on "Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Sierra Leone." Founder/Director, The Aftermath Project, www.theaftermathproject.org. "War is Only Half the Story, Vol One" "War is Only Half the Story, Vol Two" -- available at the aftermath project website
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George Terzis, Dept. Communication, Vesalius College, VUBrussel
current interest/work : Hate media, Peace journalism/media interventions, Communicating the risk of terrorism, war and the use of the internet
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John Theobald, Southampton Institute
current interest/work : currently working (along with David Berry at Southampton) on a cultural genealogy of radical mass media criticism which sets parameters for an alternative history of the war-dominated 20th century which takes into account the activerole of the mass media in the historical process
research : Mass Media Criticism in Europe and America. A Cultural Genealogy from 1850 to the Present
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Mireille Thornton, LSE
current interest/work :
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Margaret Thompson, University of Denver
current interest/work : Media coverage of women & war.
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Terry Threadgold, Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies Dept, Cardiff University,
current interest/work : Part of a team funded by the BBC in 2003 to research
the role of embedded reporters in the Iraq War 2003.
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Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, London
current interest/work : Media representations of war as entertainment.
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Lizzie Thynne, Sussex University
current interest/work : Making a film about family experiences of the wars between Finland and the Soviet Union,
1939 -45
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Giuliana Tiripelli, Glasgow University Media Group
Rhodes University
current interest/work : Relations between media and politics in the Palestinian-Israeli Oslo peace process and current conflict
media discourse on peace and conflict as the meeting point of a complex net of news management strategies, short term political pressures and different systems of beliefs
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Peter du Toit, Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership
Rhodes University
current interest/work : Journalism, conflict reporting and mitigation. Run a programme called Reporting for Peace programme for more than 10 years in different parts of Africa and South East Asia.
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Roger Tolson, Imperial War Museum
current interest/work : Acting Keeper of the Department of Art, Imperial War Museum. Commissioning contemporary artists, developing exhibitions, managing collection.
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Jem Thomas, CB3 Communications
current interest/work : Public diplomacy, strategic communication, media
operations, information operations, influence activity
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Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University College
current interest/work : Propaganda, communicating war, war reporting
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Howard Tumber, City University
current interest/work :
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Anne Tucker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
current interest/work : WAR / PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs of armed conflict and its aftermath.
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Ro Turina
current interest/work : The representation of the enemy in Italian Film and Media: the North-Eastern front from 1919 to 1989 (the fall of the Iron Curtain).
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Jane Tynan, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
current interest/work : Representations of soldiers
and the role of army clothing in military and civilian culture. Constructions of the military body that
link the concerns of design history, media studies and cultural history.
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Turkan Uzun, International Publishing
current interest/work : Editor of newspaper dealing with issues of war
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Dr Kasun Ubayasiri, Queensland University of Technology
current interest/work : Media and political violence, specially the role of media in insurgency and terrorism
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Mary Vavrus, University of Minnesota, Communication Studies Department
current interest/work : Discourses legitimazing political violence
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Miguel Vázquez, University of Seville, Spain
current interest/work : Soviet propaganda and current Russian war propaganda. War and media in the former Soviet Union
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Chandrasekaran Velayutham,
Anna University
Chennai, India
current interest/work : The Role of Media in Water Conflict in India
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Paulo Nuno Vicente, Antena 1 - RTP
current interest/work : security policies and journalists formation for hostile environment reports
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Pablo Veyrat, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
current interest/work : Discourses legitimazing political violence
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Christiana Voniati, Politis Newspaper
current interest/work : Guantanamo and War On Terror
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Devyani Vyas, Kingston University
current interest/work : Terrorism and the media; representations of terrorism in the media & terrorists' use of media.
research : Terrorists and hunger strike (working title)
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David Watt, Scottish Socialist Party Defence Studies Group
current interest/work : War & Society
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David Webb, Leeds Metropolitan University
current interest/work : The way that war is presented in film, in the news and the media generally
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Mike Webb, University College, Worcester
current interest/work : Teaching Political Sociology
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Frank Webster, Department of Sociology, City University London
current interest/work : Information Warfare and the role of Front Line Correspondents (with Howard Tumber and Marina Prentoulis also at City University)
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Guy Westwell, Queen Mary University of London
My research explores the relationship between film/photography and cultural memory within an American context, with a particular focus on representations of the Vietnam War, the war on terror, and other traumatic events in American history.
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Dr David R Willcox, University of Kent
current interest/work : Role of the media, specifically the press, in shaping public perception of conflict. Furthermore, my current research interests involve work on the public perception of civil defence planning during the Cold War.
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Paul Williams, School of English, University of Exeter
current interest/work : Doctoral thesis: ways in which the threat of nuclear war and the extinction of human life have influenced the narratives Western culture has told itself since 1945.
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James Williams, Routledge
current interest/work : Politics, International Relations, Military, Strategic and Security Studies (publishing)
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Neil Williams, Respect Supporters Blog
current interest/work : Daily Blog for Respect-The Unity Coalition for which George Galloway is the Respect MP in the UK parliament. Covers anti war activity / articles in the UK and worldwide
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Milly Williamson, Brunel University
current interest/work : Media representations of Islam and the veil
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Emma Wilkins, Cardiff University
current interest/work : News media, political violence and modern conflict
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Lily Wilson, University of Edinburgh
current interest/work : Studying for my MA in geography at the University of Edinburgh. I am currently at the start of my dissertation research, which I intend to carry out on some aspect of the media's representation of geopolitical conflict.
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Aaron Winter, University of Abertay
current interest/work : 'Race', ethnicity and religion in discourses and representations of terrorism; The US far right, violence and war (e.g. American Revolution, Vietnam, Cold War and War on Terror, as well as discourses of 'Race War', 'Abortion War' and 'Culture Wars'); The far right in the US, Canada and Britain.
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Jennie Wu, Beijing International Studies University
current interest/work : Studies on Stuart Hall and his Cultural Theories
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Margit Wunsch, London School of Economics and Political Science
current interest/work : PhD on the German media coverage of the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.
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Vincenzo Zarro , A.N.P.A.C. - Italian Airline Pilot Association
current interest/work : I have been a carrer Air Force Officer; now preparing an article about the crisis, war and media relationship
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Yennue Zarate, University of Westminster
current interest/work : Media and peace; peace journalism in latin america
research : Telling the truth about war? The role of the media in conflict
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Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
current interest/work : work on journalism and war; journalism and terror; journalism and crisis. emphasis on news images, culture and collective memory.
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