Steven Youngblood is the founding director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in Parkville, Missouri USA, where he is a communications professor. He has organized and taught peace journalism seminars and workshops around the world. Youngblood is a two-time J. William Fulbright Scholar (Moldova 2001, Azerbaijan 2007). He also served as a U.S. State Department Senior Subject Specialist in Ethiopia in 2018. Youngblood is the author of “Peace Journalism: Principles and Practices” and “Professor Komagum”. He edits “The Peace Journalist” magazine, and writes and produces the “Peace Journalism Insights” blog. He has been recognized for his contributions to world peace by the U.S. State Department, Rotary International, and the UN Association of Kansas City.

Dr. S. Arulchelvan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Sciences, Anna University, Chennai, India. Earlier, he worked as a Journalist in leading Tamil dailies. He has been awarded FCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Aveiro, Portugal and The Graciano Lopez Jaena Fellowship in Community Journalism by the University of Philippines. His specializations are Journalism, Development Communication, Educational Media and Community Media. He has been passionately engaged in several research projects with the support of UNICEF, Government of Tamil Nadu and other agencies and he completed around ten major and minor research projects in the area of communication, development and journalism. He visited more than ten countries for conference presentations and research activities. He is serving as an expert member for various Board of Studies, Journals, and Conferences.

Austin is Senior Program Officer, at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) Nigeria, where he supports governance and people-centred development programmes. He takes lead as fake news spotter on the project, which aimed to combat Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in the 2019 general elections and beyond. Austin, holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from New York University (NYU)’s Robert F. Wagner, Graduate School of Public Service, specializing in international development – Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy. At NYU, he was the President of Wagner Student Alliance for Africa (WSAFA), and a member of International Public Service Association (IPSA). Austin is an alumni fellow of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, and the Global Social Change Leadership Institute (GSCLI), New York.