Annabel McGoldrick is a writer, trainer and psychotherapist, working in private practice and consulting on issues around journalism, conflict and trauma to various organisations including the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma and the UN Population Fund. She has a PhD from the University of Sydney and taught at its Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies for several years, specialising in Peace of Mind and Conflict Resolving Media.
She is a former broadcast journalist and has covered conflicts in Indonesia, Thailand and Burma. She has reported for World News Australia and the BBC. She produced the BBC documentary Against the War, presented by Harold Pinter, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
She has led professional training workshops for journalists and peace workers in many countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Armenia and Norway. For this work, she was awarded the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize, by the Schengen Peace Foundation.
Author’s Books
Peace Journalism
Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick
Peace Journalism explains how most coverage of conflict unwittingly fuels further violence, and proposes workable options to give peace a chance. Read more →