Jake Lynch is Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney, an Executive Member of the Sydney Peace Foundation since 2009 and an Advisor to the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. He chairs the Organizing Committee of the International Peace Research Association conference, which was hosted by CPACS in July 2010.

Lynch has spent the past 13 years researching, developing, teaching and training in peace journalism - and practicing it, as an experienced international reporter in television and newspapers. Publications include several books and many book chapters and refereed articles on peace and peace journalism. He is also the author of several think-tank reports and innumerable articles in public media including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian and the Canberra Times.

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