Project Team
Asst. Professor Dr Nesrin Kenar
Dr Nesrin Kenar is the overall Coordinator of this Project. 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
Associate Professor Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw is the Principal Trainer of the workshop and Co-Coordinator of the international conference of this project. 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
Dr Senthan Selvarajah
Dr Senthan Selvarajah is the Principal Researcher of this project. Senthan is a Co-Director of Centre for Media, Human Rights, and Peacebuilding, 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, 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 is the Principal Co-Coordinator of the international conference of this project. Pradeep is a Co-Director of Centre for Media, Human Rights, and Peacebuilding, UK and 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
All Members of Research Committee (in alphabetically order)
Prof. Dr. Ali Poyraz Gürson, İstanbul Okan University, Turkey
Assistant Prof. Dr. Fatma Anıl Öztop, Kocaeli University, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Hilal Yıldız, Sakarya University, Turkey
Associate Professor Dr. Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; Chairman and Information Commissioner, Right to Access Information Commission, Sierra Leone.
Associate Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kamil, Trakya University, Turkey.
Associate Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yasan, İzmir Demokrasi University, Turkey.
Assistant Prof. Dr. Nesrin Kenar, Sakarya University, Turkey, Consultant; Centre for Media, Human Rights, and Peacebuilding, UK.
Dr. Pradeep Dhakal, Co -Director, Centre for Media, Human Rights, UK; Director, Chetanalaya Institute, Nepal.
Assistant Professor. Rajib Timalsina, Tribhuvan University; Nepal, Lead for Asia Pacific, Centre for Media, Human Rights, and Peacebuilding, UK.
Dr. Senthan Selvarajah, Co-Director, Centre for Media, Human Rights, UK; Academic, Unicaf University, UK Programme.
Assistant Prof. Dr. Vacide Karaman, Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Turkey.