Associate Professor Jake Lynch

PhD (City University, London)

Full name: Jake Alexander Lynch
Born: London, June 30, 1965
UK citizen

Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Room 120 Mackie Building K01
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Associate Professor Jake Lynch, PhD (City University, London) is Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.

Jake has spent the past decade developing and campaigning for Peace Journalism – and practising it, as an experienced international reporter in television and newspapers. He was a presenter (anchor) for BBC World News; the Sydney Correspondent for the London Independent newspaper, and a Political Correspondent for Sky News.

He has led professional peace journalism training workshops for editors and reporters in countries including Indonesia, The Philippines, Nepal, Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, for clients including the British Council, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian Government and the Council of Europe.

Jake was Director of the London-based journalism think-tank, Reporting the World, set up with a major grant from the Department for International Development of the UK Government, and author of all its reports.

His publications include the landmark Peace Journalism (Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK, 2005) and refereed chapters in books including the Routledge Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies (Oxford, 2007) and Democratising Global Media (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2005).

He has contributed scholarly articles to journals including Peace and Policy, the Global Media Journal and Conflict and Communication Online. He is convener of the Peace Journalism commission of the International Peace Research Association, a member of the Advisory Board of the Sydney Peace Foundation and of the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. He is an Associate of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research.

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2007: Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney.
2007: PhD by Published Works, City University, London.
2007: Appointed convener of Peace Journalism Commission, International Peace Research Association.
2000 – 2006: Casual lecturer and supervisor, universities of Sydney and Queensland, Australia; Cardiff, UK and European Peace University, Stadtschlaining, Austria.
1989: Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism Studies (Distinction), Cardiff University.
1988: BA English (First Class Honours), Cardiff University.

2001 – 2006: Presenter (anchor) and reporter, BBC Television News, London.
1998 – 2001: Political Correspondent, Sky News, London.
1997 – 1998: Sydney Correspondent, London Independent.
2001 – 2005: Director, Reporting the World, journalism think-tank, London.
1999 – present: Freelance professional trainer in peace journalism.

2008, New Directions in Peace Journalism, Paradigm Press, Boulder, CO, with Johan Galtung (in press).
2006, Reporteando Conflictos, Montiel & Soriano Editores, Mexico City, with Johan Galtung and Annabel McGoldrick.
2005, Peace Journalism, with Annabel McGoldrick, Hawthorn Press, Stroud.
2002, Reporting the World, Conflict & Peace Forums, Taplow.

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