Marie-Soleil Frère is senior research associate at the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) and director of the Research Center in Information and Communication (ReSIC) at the University of Brussels. She is the author of The Media and Conflicts in Central Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, 2007) and Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Countries: Votes and Voices for Peace? (Zed Books, London, 2011).