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Nancy Durham, independent video journalist based in London and Oxford

Nancy Durham is currently writing a novel set in Kosovo. She made the film, The Truth About Rajmonda, A KLA Soldier Lies for the Cause, which investigates why a central figure in her reports from Kosovo persistently lied about her personal history. Her "War Diary" from Albania appeared in the June 1999 edition of Brill's. Since 1994, Ms. Durham has shot, produced and presented reports for CBC Newsworld and CBC's National Magazine. She has reported for Correspondent on BBC 2, and Channel 4 News in London. She co-authored the BBC Woman's Hour Book of Health, BBC Books (May 1998) and was a lecturer in TV Journalism at Westminster University, London. Ms. Durham has been a CBC Television News correspondent and an independent radio news and current affairs documentary producer contributing from China, Europe, North America and Africa to: BBC World & Domestic services, CBC Radio News and Current Affairs, National Public Radio in the U.S. and Radio Deutsche Welle in Cologne. Since 1994 when she began working as a video journalist, she has concentrated on telling stories of survival, primarily in the Balkans. She covers war from the perspective of ordinary people trapped inside it. She has also made short films about children accused of genocide in Rwanda, crime in Budapest, teaching democracy in Russia and gun control in the UK. As a radio reporter, Ms. Durham covered the student's struggles in central China, in 1985 and 1987, with Wuhan University as her base, the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the refugee crisis in Mozambique and Malawi in 1991.