Learing Stream Leaders Trainers for ‘Learning Streams’ Pradip N. Thomas - Communication rights La version française suit Pradip, former director of WACC’s Global Studies Programme, is Associate Professor and Chair of research at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Australia. He has written extensively on a number of issues related to global communications. His research interests include media and religion, the political economy of communications, communication and social change and communication rights. In 2006 he co-edited publications with Jan Servaes on Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions, (Sage), and with Issac Mazondei on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property Rights: Perspectives from Southern Africa (CODESRIA). His latest publication is Strong Religion/Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and the Media in India (Sage:2008). He is the Vice-Chair of the Participatory Communications Section, IAMCR. Patricia A. Made - Media and gender justice La version française suit Patricia is a Zimbabwean-based editor and media trainer who has been involved in many training, policy and research initiatives on gender in the Southern Africa media as well as working for Inter Press Service. Following WACC’s successful Global Media Monitoring Project 2005, she wrote the handbook ‘Mission Possible’: A Gender and Media Advocacy Toolkit. Dr Jake Lynch - Peace Journlaism - La version française suit Dr Jake Lynch is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Sydney University, Australia. He obtained a PhD by Published Works from City University, London. 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 covered conflicts in the Middle East, South East Europe and South East Asia, as well as many political and diplomatic gatherings of world leaders. He interviewed Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela and Kylie Minogue, among others! Jake also led professional training workshops for editors and reporters in many countries, including the US, UK, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Armenia, Georgia and Norway. His publications include Peace Journalism (Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK, 2005 - with Annabel McGoldrick), and refereed chapters in books including the Routledge Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies (Abingdon, 2007) and Democratising Global Media (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2005). He has contributed scholarly articles to journals including the Global Media Journal and Conflict and Communication Online, as well as journalistic analysis and comment to many media including the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Canberra Times and BBC Online. Latterly, Jake has been in the forefront of efforts to establish Peace Journalism as a new field of study in both Peace and Conflict Studies and Journalism and Communication. He is Convenor of the Peace Journalism commission of the International Peace Research Association. His research interests include media responses to conflict, and especially the 'war on terrorism' and its media representation, as factors inflaming conflicts in many parts of the world, in particular South East Asia.