ROSE A. DYSON Ed.D. (University of Toronto) is a Consultant in Media Education. She chairs Canadians Concerned About Violence in Entertainment, co-founder of the International Cultural Environment Movement at Webster University in St. Louis, Mo. in 1996, and served on the CEM Executive Committee until May, 2000. She is an external research associate at the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution at York University in Toronto and her expertise is widely sought by the media. Dr. Dyson is on the executive board of the Center for Global Media Studies at the Edward Murrow School of Communications, Washington State University, Pulman, Wa.
Dr. Dyson has provided consultations to both Industry and Government. These include the Governance and Institution Strengthening Project (GISP), Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission, Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Federal Dept. of Justice and the 9th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders. In September, 2001, she participated in a conflict resolution project in Colombo, Sri Lanka as a component of the GISP project. In 2003 she participated in the Canadian Voice of Women Delegation to the 47th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Economic and Social Council, United Nations, New York City.
She has spoken at countless national and international forums on media issues, youth education, crime prevention and rehabilitation of offenders, was a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2000 and was on the planning committee for the third biannual interdisciplinary, international conference on The New World Order at Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto May 31-June 2, 2002.
Her book, Mind Abuse: Media Violence in an Information Age, has received positive reviews and has been listed on Black Rose Books' website as their number one best seller for over two years. She is also coauthor of Media, Sex, Violence, and Drugs in the Global Village (edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour and Kuldip R. Rampal, published in 2001 by Rowman and Littlefield ) and Terrorism, Globalization & Mass Communication (edited by David Demers, published in 2003 by Marquette Books).
Recent speaking engagements include York University's Department of Sociology; Toronto University Women's Club; Renison College School of Social Work, University of Waterloo; the Wilfrid Laurier University Bookstore; The Marguerite Centre, Pembroke, Ontario; and the Toronto Police Association.
Rose's peer reviewed articles include Gazette: The International Journal For Communications Studies (Vol. 60/No.2/April, 1998) and over 50 other articles and book reviews. She is also editor of the Learning Edge published by the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education.