Dov Shinar

Professor and Graduate Studies Coordinator, School of Communication and Head, FAIR MEDIA: Center for the Study of Conflict, War and Peace Coverage, Netanya Academic College.
Professor Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal; and Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Founding Dean, School of Media Studies, College of Management , Tel Aviv.
Academic Director, Research Project on Israeli Public Diplomacy, Neeman Institute, Technion, Haifa.
Advisory Committee Chair, Peace Journalism Working Group, International Peace Research Association (IPRA); member.
Executive Boards of Keshev, The Center for Protection of Democracy in Israel; the Israel Association for Canadian Studies; Editorial Boards, Conflict and Communication Online, International Communications Gazette, and Intercom Journal of the Brazilian Media Research Association. Interested in the evolving impact of the media on identity, society, political culture, and peace processes.

Selected BOOKS:
Editor:
Peace Journalism: The State of the Art (with W. Kempf) (2007),  The articles in the book were also published electronically in conflict and communication online (www.cco.regener-online.de), issues 4/2 April 2005 (Kempf’s article); 5/2 (October 2006) (entire issue); 6/1 (April 2007) (entire issue).
Internet: Communication, Society and Culture ( 2001);
Author Communication: Technology, Society, Culture (1997); Palestinian Voices: Communication and Nation-Building in the West Bank (1987); Palestinian Press in the West Bank: The Political Dimension (1987, with Danny Rubinstein);

Selected ARTICLES and CHAPTERS
Shinar, D. (2007). “Democracy, Development, Peace and Communication: An Overview of their Roles and Interaction”, Global Media Journal – Mediterranean Edition, 2 (1), Spring, 54-62; Constructing Collective Identities and Democratic Media in a Globalizing World: Israel as a Test Case (2005); The Mass Media and the Transformation of Collective Identity: Quebec and Israel (2005); Post Traumatic Research in Communications (2005);
Techniques, Narratives, and Ethics in the Coverage of War (2004); Media peace discourse: Constraints, concepts and building blocks (2004); Peace Process in Cultural Conflict: The Role of the Media (2003); Cultural Conflict in the Middle East: The Media as Peacemakers (2002); Public Broadcasting in Israel (2001); And All the People See the Voices: Homogeneity and Sectorality in the Media (2000).Also you could include:

His presentation:

Democracy, Free Speech, and Occupation: Coexistence and Contradictions