Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism: New Approaches to Peace and Conflict Brochura - 2010

Jake Lynch enjoyed a 17-year career in UK media, working at various times as a political correspondent for Sky News, the Sydney correspondent for The Independent newspaper and later as a reporter and news-anchor (presenter) on BBC World television, covering conflicts in the Middle East, South-East Asia and at diplomatic and political summit meetings. At the same time, he taught postgraduate courses based on peace journalism at the University of Sydney, where he is now Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. Latterly, he has served as convenor of the first Peace Journalism Commission of the International Peace Research Association. Johan Galtung, one of the founders of Peace and Conflict Studies, gave the field many of its most important concepts, as well as making a notable contribution to the study of media and communication. He also worked for three years as a part-time journalist for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, 1960-62 and 1965, producing a number of radio and television programs, and remembers vividly both the thrill of interviewing the Dalai Lama, Fidel Castro, etc, and how interviews with ordinary people deepened the understanding of what went on.