Mentors and Trainers
Associate Professor Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw is currently the Chairman/Information Commissioner, Right to Access Information Commission and Associate Professor in Mass Communication and Journalism at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Before he joined the Right to Access Information Commission in Sierra Leone in October 2018, he worked as Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria university in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK since September 2011. He is the author of five books, including Human Rights Journalism (2012) and over 40 boo chapters and journal articles. He was Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) between 2012 and 2016 following his election at the organisation’s biennial conference in Japan on November 24-28 2012. In 2013, 2015, and 2016, he was nominated Best Lecturer for student-led teaching by the Northumbria Students Union, and in 2014 for an award for Communication for Social Change run by the Centre for Communication for Social Change at Queensland University, Australia.
Tel: 079-101314/00232/30359669; Email: ibrahim.shaw@raic.gov.sl; shawibrahim@hotmail.com; web: http://www.ibrahimseagashaw.com/index.php
Asst. Professor Dr Nesrin Kenar
Dr Nesrin Kenar is Asst. Professor of Political Sciences and International Relations at Sakarya Unievrsity, Turkey. She was former Vice Dean of Faculty of Political Sciences, Sakarya University and Institutional Coordinator of European Union projects in Sakarya University. Nesrin served as Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) between 2012 and 2016 and President of European Peace Research Association between 2008 and 2012. Nesrin was also a member of the editorial board of Global Peace International Journal. She has published books and papers related to his area of expertise, particularly about Globalization, Religion and Politics, Ethnic Conflicts, Yugoslavia Conflicts, Bosnia-Herzegovina Civil War, International and Foreign Policy Strategies of States, Israel-Palestinian Question.
Email: nkenar@sakarya.edu.tr Tel: +90 (264) 295 63 72
Dr Senthan Selvarajah
Dr Senthan Selvarajah is a Co-Director of Centre for Media, Human Rights, UK. He is an academic tutor for media and communication studies of the Unicaf (Cyprus) – Liverpool John Moores University (UK) programmes, and working as an independent research consultant for several NGOs and research organisations. Previously, he worked as research and publications officer for the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has over 20 years’ experience as a journalist, editor, researcher and consultant. He has published extensively, including books, book chapters and journal articles including Human Rights Journalism and its Nexus to Responsibility to Protect (2021), and presented at numerous conferences. Senthan served as both Executive Committee Member (2016-2018) and Governing Council Member (2014-2018) for the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). He currently serves as the Convener of Media, Conflicts, and Journalism Commission of IPRA.
Email: senthan.selvarajah@cmhrp.org
Dr. Pradeep Dhakal
Dr. Pradeep Dhakal is the Director of Chetanalaya Institute, Nepal. He worked as a Lecturer in Tribhuvan University before joining the Social-Service sector to serve needy and poor people. Pradeep was the Chief (Member Secretary) of the Pashupati Area Development Trust, one of the prestigious positions appointed by Government of Nepal between 2017-2022. Pradeep was Co-Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA) between 2014 – 2017. He is also involved with the movement of Center for Global Nonkilling, Hawaii, USA. He has written several books, including ‘The Forlorn Journey’, ‘The Quest’, ‘Mero Nepal: Shanti ra Samridhiko Margama’.
Email: drpradeepdhakal@gmail.com
Rajib Timalsina is Assistant Professor at the Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies (CPDS), Tribhuvan University where he lectures on Peace Research Methods, International Humanitarian Law, peace-education, power and politics. Mr. Timalsina is a non-violent communication practitioner and co-director of research project on learning assessment in Nepal. For 2018 – 2020 tenure, he is serving as Governing Council Member at the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) representing Asia-Pacific region. He has served as research consultant to several projects pertaining to the peace process, culture of peace in schools, trade union and labour, safe migration, livelihood, education, and local governance, gender, social justice and inclusion in post conflict scenario in Nepal and South Asia.
Email: rajib.timalsina@gmail.com
Dr Tabeenah Anjum
Dr Tabeenah Anjum is a senior journalist, media educator and internationally acclaimed visual storyteller. With over a decade of experience in print as well as multimedia journalism she reports on politics, gender, human rights, migrant rights and issues impacting marginalised communities, from Rajasthan, the Hindi heartland of India. She presently writes for the Outlook magazine & her long-form reportage, political analysis and absorbing features also appear in reputed publications such as The Caravan, The Quint, Article-14, Counter-Currents , The Gaon Connection, News 18, BBC, DNA, Rajasthan Patrika, and The Telegraph. She was the former Bureau in-charge of Deccan Herald newspaper in Rajasthan and continues to write opinion pieces for the publication. Dr Anjum did her Master’s in journalism from University in Rajasthan and completed her PhD in 2016. She has also authored a book titled, ‘Social Media and Social Activism’. She presently teaches at Haridev Joshi University as Adjunct Professor and is associated with several media institutes in India. She is the co-course director of the Basics of Visual storytelling course at FTII, Pune since 2019 and also a visiting faculty with IIMC Delhi and Dhenkanal since 2017 and affiliated college at Rajasthan University since 2013. A passionate photographer, she is the recipient of the National Award in Photography (2015) conferred by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, recipient of Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II Award (2017) for excellence in photography and her photographic artworks have been exhibited in India, Nepal, and South Australia.
Email: tabeenahanjum@gmail.com; Twitter : @tabeenahanjum