Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard

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Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard is Honorary Associate at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and executive officer of the Sydney Peace Foundation, University of Sydney; executive member of the National Committee on Human Rights Education; executive member of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism; chair of the NSW Human Rights Education Committee; and, consultant to the Conflict Resolution Network.

She completed her doctorate at the University of Sydney with research focusing on issues of cultural difference and social justice. Field visits involved working with indigenous communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior academic pursuits include a Master of Philosophy (Women’s Studies) and Graduate Diploma in Education (Higher Certificate).

She has conducted interdisciplinary research projects on topics ranging from non-adversarial government policy and practice, to national and international perspectives on human rights and the law; from corporate-social responsibility, to 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 (Japan), she taught inter-cultural studies and has been a featured speaker – as well as conducting peace education workshops – for the Japanese Association of Language Teachers (JALT). She has been an invited guest lecturer at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and University of Granada (Spain) and the Global University of the PeaceBoat. (Japan).

Domestic tertiary teaching involves unit of study development and coordination in graduate peace and conflict studies at the University of Sydney – including the world’s first postgraduate ‘peace through tourism’ course.

Publications include six articles for national and international books and journals. She is also co-editor of 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).