Radio talkshows have the potential - particularly in fragile states - to do enormous damage if they are not well-managed. This course introduces talkshow hosts to conflict transformation, and helps them better understand how they can contribute positively to their communities and countries.

• Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Nepal, Radio Talkshows for peacebuilding, Master Trainers workshop - 2008
• Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Nepal, community radio Talkshow producers – 2008 and 2007
• Ecole Nationale d'Administration. France, European Community Project on Training for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management - 2006
• Antenna Foundation Nepal, radio journalists/producers – 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2002
• Carter Center, Venezuela, TV, radio and press, senior editors/producers and journalists – 2003
• Radio Netherlands Training Centre, Netherlands, radio and TV producers and journalists – 2003 and 2002

2.      Radio soap opera for social transformation                                          

    I've trained six successful radio soap opera teams, and worked with several others. I take a group of new, inexperienced writers through a ten day practical course which gives them an introduction to conflict issues and helps them see how to approach those issues through a radio soap opera, then gives them the basics in designing and writing a peace building soap opera for radio. I have given longterm advice and support to an extremely successful radio soap opera team in Nepal (writers, producers, management), and am currently advising on a new soap in Sri Lanka.

•         Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK) / YA-TV (Sri Lanka), advisor to a radio soap opera production – Sri Lanka 2008-10 (see http://www.kannagipura.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1⟨=en)
•         SFCG & Antenna Foundation Nepal, radio soap writers (basic and advanced) – Nepal, 2006
•          IRIN, radio soap team - Angola, 2004
•          Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran, radio producers, editors, writers and journalists – Iran, 2004
•          SFCG, radio soap team –  Indonesia, 2002 and 2003

3.      Other

     Having worked in radio for twenty five years, and conflict transformation for ten of those years, I have experience of many different contexts, as well as radio formats and styles so I'm able to bring the two together in a variety of configurations - depending on the specific contextual and organisational needs.

• Equal Access (Niger), Advanced Behaviour Change Communication for the radio drama team, November 2009
  
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK) / YA-TV (Sri Lanka), Basic conflict resolution through radio (for YA-TV), May 2008
• Equal Access (Nepal), Creativity in Radio Workshop, February 2008
• US Embassy, Mali, Training for Community Radios in Conflict Prevention and Management, for 37 community radio station producers from the north (Timbuctu, Kidal and Gao)
• Equal Access Nepal, Knowledge, Attitude, and Behaviour change through radio, workshop for community reporters and FM station journalists for Sundar Shantar Bishal - 2006
• World Association of Catholic Media (SIGNIS), Knowledge, Attitude, and Behaviour change through radio, workshop for 21 east and southern African Catholic radio directors - 2006