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Sharmini Boyle

Chief Editor, Young Asia Television, Sri Lanka

Sharmini Boyle has been working as a television director/producer in Sri Lanka for over 25 years. At present she is Chief Editor at Young Asia Television, an organisation that is dedicated to social and development communication, producing television programmes on issues of social justice, sustainable development and conflict resolution. Since 1998, Sharmini Boyle has been leading several media interventions for peace, initated by YATV. These include the production and broadcast of weekly peacebuilding programmes and other innovative communication projects relating to the conflict and its resolution in Sri Lanka. Sharmini Boyle also works as a video journalism trainer and consultant for  initatives to promote media freedom, women's rights and peace building.