Antonio C.S. Rosa, a pioneer in peace journalism, will be featured live from Porto, Portugal, in a Praxis Peace Institute online event on Friday, April 3.

The event will begin at 11 a.m. and will consist of an online interview with Rosa and a Q&A period. Registrations cost $16 for Praxis members and $21 for nonmembers and can be made at praxispeace.org.

Rosa will discuss his work as co-founder and editor of Transcend Media Services, a weekly online news service that provides a platform for analysis, research and policy comments without commercial objectives. It focuses on peace journalism, which it defines as situations in which editors and reporters provide opportunities for society at large to consider and value nonviolent responses to conflicts.

The news service gathers articles and videos from throughout the world that feature practitioners of conflict transformation and peace.

Rosa’s co-founder of Transcend Media Services, the late Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, is widely regarded as the principal founder of peace and conflict studies as an academic discipline in the social sciences.

Born in Sao Paulo in 1946 to an Afro-Brazilian father and a Euro-Indigenous mother, Rosa grew up in Brazil and went on to receive a bachelor’s degree in communication, a master’s degree in political science and international relations and a doctorate in political science and peace studies, all from the University of Hawai’i.

He is the author of “Transcending and Transforming: An Introduction to Conflict Resolution” and is on the global advisory board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, a transdisciplinary academic field and collaborative community that includes concerned scholars, researchers, educators, practitioners and creative artists.

Rosa was awarded the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Arnold J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice.