Anthony Borden
IWPR Executive Director
US & NL Governance Committees; Finance Committee; Nominations Committee
IWPR Executive Director
US & NL Governance Committees; Finance Committee; Nominations Committee
Tony is the founder of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. He was editor of the highly regarded IWPR magazine War Report from 1991-98 and was commended for the “Best Online Journalism Service” in the 1999 NetMedia journalism awards, for IWPR's reporting on the Kosovo crisis. He has worked with the UK's Department for International Development assessing media programs in post-communist countries. He has received a MacArthur Foundation NGO research fellowship to study media and conflict at King’s College, London. He has worked as an editor and writer for Harper's, The Nation, The American Lawyer and HarperCollins, and contributed to The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek and numerous other publications. He comments regularly on conflict and media issues for the BBC, CNN and other media. Tony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Reporting from Ukraine by IWPR founder and executive director. |
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In launching our Women’s Reporting and Dialogue Programme, IWPR looks at a different kind of frontline - the battle women in Islamic countries are waging to define new rights in changing times.
The Iraqi government highlights international support for peace, while declaring itself well prepared for war.
The United States risks losing a major opportunity to forge an open media in the Middle East.
Iraqi media have a critical role to play in building a new Iraq, and IWPR's new field training programme aims to help.
Speakers at an IWPR conference in Almaty warn that outbreaks of violence across Central Asia could escalate into a regional conflict.
The US is suspected of playing a significant role in Zahir Shah's decision to withdraw his candidacy at this week's grand assembly.
The first day of the Loya Jirga ends amid farcical scenes with the organisers refusing to confirm suggestions that delegates had appointed Hamid Karzai head of state in a rather unorthodox manner.
The UN's compromise over the new international court provides a reprieve for Balkan peacekeepers, but could set the stage for future disputes with Washington
The UN is racing against time to avert a renewed American bid to block its peacekeeping operation in Bosnia