Stuart Allan is professor of journalism in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published widely on the news reporting of war, conflict and crisis. Related books include Journalism after September 11 (second edition 2011, co-edited with Barbie Zelizer), Reporting war: journalism in wartime (2004, co-edited with Zelizer), Online news: journalism and the internet (2006), Digital war reporting (2009, co-written with Donald Matheson) and Citizen journalism: global perspectives (2009, co-edited with Einar Thorsen). He is a book series editor, and serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals.
Birgit Brock-Utne is affiliated to the University of Oslo as a professor in education and development. She is currently a visiting professor of peace studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has a PhD in peace studies and previously worked as a researcher at PRIO (the Peace Research Institute of Oslo). From 1987 until 1992 she was a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She has been a visiting professor in Japan (University of Hiroshima, Fall 2002) and in the US (Antioch University, Spring 1992; Indiana University, Spring 2005; Wartburg College, Spring 2010). She has written, co-authored and co-edited many books and scholarly articles within the field of peace studies, education and development, and languages in Africa.
Peter Chow-White is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is co-author with Lisa Nakamura of the edited book Race after the internet from Routledge. His work has appeared in Communication Theory, the International Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society, PLoS Medicine, and Science, Technology & Human Values. He is currently working on two research projects. In the first project, he is collaborating 376with scientists who are developing a molecular diagnostic technology for cancer to research the management of personal genetic information in healthcare settings. In his second project, he is writing a book from his research on social media and data mining.
Robert A Hackett is professor of communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, co-director of NewsWatch Canada; and co-founder of OpenMedia.ca and other media democratisation initiatives. He has written extensively on journalism, political communication, and media representation. His recent works include Remaking media: the struggle to democratize public communication (2006, co-written with William Carroll), and Democratizing global media: one world, many struggles (2005, co-edited with Yuezhi Zhao). Hackett serves on the editorial boards of Journalism Studies and four other journals in the field.
Virgil Hawkins is an associate professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, Japan. He previously worked on NGO programs in the field of health and poverty reduction in Asia and Africa. His primary research interest is in unravelling the tendency of key actors in the world, including policymakers, the media, the public and academia, to collectively marginalise the world’s deadliest armed conflicts, most notably those in Africa. He is the author of Stealth conflicts: how the world’s worst violence is ignored (2008) and writes a blog of the same title.
Richard Lance Keeble has been professor of journalism at the University of Lincoln since 2003. Before that he was the executive editor of The Teacher, the weekly newspaper of the National Union of Teachers and he lectured at City University, London for 19 years. He has written and edited 18 publications including Secret state, silent press: new militarism, the gulf and the modern image of warfare (1997), The newspapers handbook (2005), Ethics for journalists (2008), The journalistic imagination: literary journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007, co-edited 377with Sharon Wheeler), Communicating war: memory, media and military (2007, co-written with Sarah Maltby) and Peace journalism, war and conflict resolution (2010, co-edited with John Tulloch & Florian Zollmann). He is also the joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.
Lioba Suchenwirth is writing her PhD at Lincoln University’s School of Journalism, focusing on peace journalism projects in post-conflict societies. She holds an MPhil in peace and conflict studies from the University of Oslo and has been working as a freelance journalist from Central America and Mexico since 2005.
Jake Lynch is associate professor and director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, former senior professional journalist and TV presenter, chief investigator for the Australian Research Council Global Standard in Conflict Reporting project; an executive member of the Sydney Peace Foundation and secretary general of the International Peace Research Association, having organised and hosted its Sydney conference in July 2010. Publications include several books and many book chapters and refereed articles on peace and peace journalism. In 2008, Jake was guest editor of a special edition of the Routledge scholarly journal, Global Change, Peace and Security, with contributions based on presentations to a major conference he organised at the University of Sydney. He is also the author of several think-tank reports and many articles in public media including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Canberra Times. He is the on-screen host of News Goo, a streamed television program produced by the New Matilda current affairs website. In 2009–2010 he wrote a weekly column, combining commentary on world affairs with media analysis and literacy issues, for the TRANSCEND Media Service website. He is a regular contributor to radio and television. Jake has senior production credits on three documentary films, including the multi-award winning Soldiers of peace, narrated by the Hollywood actor Michael Douglas.378
Annabel McGoldrick is a clinical psychotherapist, PhD candidate and part-time lecturer at the University of Sydney. She is also an experienced professional journalist, most recently as a reporter for World News Australia, on SBS Television. Before that, Annabel covered conflicts in Indonesia, Thailand and Burma, and former Yugoslavia. Her publications include Peace journalism (2005, co-written with Jake Lynch), as well as chapters in several books and several academic journal articles. She edited and presented two educational video documentaries, News from the Holy Land (2004) and Peace journalism in the Philippines (2007). She has led professional training workshops for journalists and peace workers in many countries, including the US, UK, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Armenia and Norway.
Rob McMahon is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Canada. He researches and writes on indigenous media policy and practice, and his work has appeared in Media, Culture & Society, the Canadian Journal of Communication and Media Development. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Global Communications Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and has worked as a journalist in Canada.
Matt Mogekwu is associate professor of journalism in the Roy Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in the state of New York. He was chair of the Journalism Department from 2008 to 2010. Mogekwu earned his BA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, an MA in communications from Michigan State University, and a PhD in journalism/mass communication from Indiana University, Bloomington – all in the US. His research has focused on media and peace building, international communication, press freedom and sustainable development in Africa and capacity building for media practitioners in developing countries and has published widely in journals and books. Mogekwu has been faculty member and administrator in universities in South Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and the US. He is a member of many international media/journalism associations.379
Stig Arne Nohrstedt is the author of numerous books, articles and conference papers on war journalism, journalism ethics, and crisis and conflict communication. As full professor at Örebro University, Sweden, he is head of the media and communication program at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including a newly started international MA in global journalism. He is associate professor at the National Defense College in Sweden and peer reviewer at the Swedish National Bank’s Research Council.
Rune Ottosen is professor of journalism at Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway. He previously worked as a journalist in various Norwegian media, as Information Director and Research Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), and as a research fellow at the Norwegian Journalist Federation. Since 1996 he has taught at Oslo College and part-time at the Sami College in Kautokeino, Norway. He and Professor Stig Arne Nohrstedt have written and edited several books and articles on war and media. These include a comparative international study of the Gulf Conflict coverage in several countries, Journalism and the new world order: studying war and the media (2002, co-edited with Heikki Luostarinen), Journalism and the new world order: Gulf War, national news discourses and globalization (2001, co-edited with Stig Arne Nohrstedt), US and the others: global media images on ‘The war on terror’ (2004, co-written with Stig Arne Nohrstedt), and Global war – local views: media images of the Iraq War (2005, co-written with Stig Arne Nohrstedt).
Susan Dente Ross is professor of English and former research associate dean at Washington State University and director of Paxim, a peace communication research group. A former longtime reporter, editor, and newspaper owner, she writes creative nonfiction offering voice to the powerless. A Fulbright Scholar, faculty fellow, media consultant, and peace journalism trainer in Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Turkey, her recent publications include Peace journalism in times of war (2009, co-edited with Majid Tehranian) and Images that injure: pictorial stereotypes in the media (2003, co-edited 380with Paul Lester), as well as chapters in Mediation: journalism, war and conflict resolution (2009, edited by Keeble et al.), Race/gender/media: considering diversity across audiences, content, and producers (2009, edited by Lind), and Discovering new pathways to peace (2009, edited by Shiba & Kawamura).
Sudeshna Roy is assistant professor of communication at Stephen F Austin State University, Texas, US. She is a critical media studies scholar with special focus on representation of multinational organisations and media’s role in conflict and peace processes. She is also an intercultural communication scholar working with race, ethnicity, gender and identity. Her article has been published in Purdue University Press online journal Comparative Literature and Culture. Her most recent coauthored chapter appears in the book Mass media: coverage, objectivity and changes (2010, edited by Kovács).
Ibrahim Seaga Shaw is senior lecturer in media and politics in the Department of Media, Northumbria University in Newcastle Upon Tyne. His research and teaching interests encompass democracy and media agenda-setting, peace journalism and global justice, media representations of conflict and humanitarian intervention. He has published articles in International Communication Gazette (2009), African Journalism Review (2007), Globalisation, Societies and Education (2007), Ethical Space (2009), and in the Journal of Global Ethics (2010). He is also author of Human rights journalism (Palgrave forthcoming December 2011). He obtained his PhD from the Sorbonne in 2006 and has been a member of the Bristol Legacy Commission since 2008.
Elissa J Tivona (PhD) is adjunct professor, international education, Colorado State University, Department of International Education. She was instrumental in the creation of the interdisciplinary peace and reconciliation studies program, recently upgraded to a minor at CSU and authored the curriculum for the keystone class, Education for Global Peace. She is the recipient of the Peace Ambassador Award in recognition of work with the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information 381in Jerusalem and advocacy work on behalf of J-Street Colorado) and interfaith Living Room Dialogues. Elissa is widely acknowledged for convening the International Perspectives on Peacemaking Conference in Boulder, Colorado and is widely published in academic as well as popular media.382