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Francis ROLT
Current functions
- Consultant on radio and peace building or conflict transformation initiatives.
- Director of a small company called Radio for Peace Building (www.radioforpeacebuilding.co.uk) and works for a variety of different organisations, ranging from NGOs like Search for Common Ground and Equal Access, to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
- In january 2009, has two main work strands, one is advising a Sri Lankan media organisation called YA-TV on the development of a peace building radio soap opera. The other involves me one week a month (actually usually more) for Search for Common Ground on a 7 country regional project in West and Central Africa called Radio as a Platform for Peacebuilding, which aims to improve the ways in which governments communicate with their people and the people communicate with their governments.
- Member of the OurMedia list on “Community Media in Conflict”
Previous functions
- Director of Radio at Search for Common Ground, and the director of their Studio Ijambo in Burundi.
- Worked for a number of years as a producer/presenter with Radio Netherlands, and helped run a radio station in South Africa as apartheid was brought down. Our remit at Capital Radio was to create 'a radio station relevant to the new South Africa' - unfortunately the new South Africa didn't exist at that time.
Publications
- Has written or edited a number of books and 'how to' guides on radio and peace building, in particular on talkshows and on soap operas, but also more general texts.
Contact
- Phone: +44 203 083 0330 (office)
- Mob.: +44 791 937 8106
- Email: francisrolt@gmail.com