Anthony Borden
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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Stories by the Author
Shooting a Free Spirit
Malala Yousafzai showed the way for young Pakistanis to speak freely, and Taleban extremists reacted with the only methods they know.
12 Oct 12
Milosevic Arrested
Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to police, ending a tense stand-off at his residence in Belgrade.
16 Nov 05
Milosevic's Fate in the Balance
Talks are underway for the surrender of Slobodan Milosevic amid a tense stand-off at his residence in Belgrade and a mounting power struggle between Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
16 Nov 05
Viewpoint: A Lesson From the Balkans
Using the Balkan experience as a guide, the United States could best honour its victims by committing itself to an international criminal court.
11 Nov 05
Hate Speech In Pristina - The Kosovo Media Wars Could Start Here
A KLA-linked news agency created a firestorm when it launched a vicious attack on a leading independent publisher and political personality. The media wars inside Kosovo may be only just beginning.
10 Nov 05
Western Mediation in Yugoslavia Urged
Speakers at a London conference on the Balkans call for the West to help Yugoslavia resolve its internal problems peacefully.
6 Sep 05
The Filipovic Story
IWPR reveals the extraordinary background to Miroslav Filipovic's award-winning story on Kosovo atrocities
6 Sep 05
Milosevic's Fate in the Balance
Talks are underway for the surrender of Slobodan Milosevic amid a tense stand-off at his residence in Belgrade and a mounting power struggle between Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
6 Sep 05
Breaking the Silence
The verdict against Filipovic has criminalised the truth. But the case has also helped force open the issue of war crimes in Serbia, and free speech, in the end, never loses.
6 Sep 05
Serbia's Democratic Revival
Miroslav Filipovic, the Serbian journalist jailed for exposing human rights abuses, won a joyous early release. But his rehabilitation, and that of Serbian democracy, will take time.
6 Sep 05
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