Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard

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Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard is a Lecturer and Research Coordinator at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, Australia. She is former executive officer of the Sydney Peace Foundation, executive member of the National Committee on Human Rights Education, executive member of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism (Australia), international member of TRANSCEND Peace and Development Network, and consultant to the Conflict Resolution Network.

Lynda is Research Coordinator for postgraduate peace and conflict studies at the University of Sydney and teaches the core unit “Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies” as well as the elective units “Gender and the Development of Peace”, “Human Rights, Peace and Justice”, “Nonviolence and Social Change” and “Peace Through Tourism”.

Her academic teaching and research centres on issues of cultural difference and social justice. She has conducted interdisciplinary national and international research projects on topics including non-adversarial government policy and practice, human security and global governance, corporate-social responsibility and issues of Indigenous self-determination.

As a teacher and educational consultant in Australia and Japan, she developed curricula, advised on policy formulation and taught in prisons, schools and universities. At Jochi University in Japan she taught international and cultural studies and has been a featured peace education speaker and workshop facilitator for the Japanese Association of Language Teachers (JALT). Lynda has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and University of Granada (Spain).

Publications include a number of articles for national and international books and journals. She is also co-editor of Ending War, Building Peace (2009), Managing Creatively: Human Agendas from Changing Times (1996) and has collaborated on Human Rights Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue (2000), Indigenous People and the Law in Australia (1995) and Women, Male Violence and the Law (1994).