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”

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.

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.

Phone: +44 203 083 0330 (office)

Mob.: +44 791 937 8106

Email: francisrolt@gmail.com