PAULA SLIER
WAR CORRESPONDENT | SPEAKER | AUTHOR
INFORMATION WARFARE | DISINFORMATION | NARRATIVE STRATEGY | PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
PAUlA
SLIER
RECENT EVENT
BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF WAR REPORTING
UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS
17 September
TEDxUniversityofJohannesbur
22 September at 9pm
talking at annual mini and junior city council, Johannesburg
November 17 evening
MC at the 90th anniversary dinner of ORT-JET – Johannesburg
26 +
FRONTLINES REPORTED FROM
30+
Years of international journalism
6 000 +
LIVE INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS
26+
CONFLICT ZONES COVERED
1 mission
Changing How the World Understands Modern Conflict
That belief has shaped every assignment I’ve ever accepted. It took me through Hamas tunnels beneath Gaza in 2008, making me one of the first female journalists to report from inside them. It took me to Homs, where a Syrian soldier on the frontline pressed a cross into my hand and asked me to pray for him.
It invited me into the home of an Algerian family grieving a daughter they had just lost in an earthquake, yet who still insisted I join them at their table. It sat me beside a 17-year-old Kurdish Peshmerga fighter who had traded her schoolbooks for a rifle and a childhood for a war.
Long before I was studying information warfare, I was witnessing it.
I just didn’t have a name for it yet.
" To understand conflict, we must first understand people. "
For more than 30 years, I’ve worked as a journalist, spending the past two decades reporting from war zones, political upheavals and humanitarian crises. I’ve learnt that the most important battles are often fought long before the first shot is fired.
By the time conflict reaches a battlefield, a battle for hearts, minds and attention has often been raging for years.
Reporting from those frontlines, I’ve seen how stories can shape what people believe, how they act and the decisions they make.
Those experiences shaped the work I do now. Organisations are trying to build trust in increasingly sceptical environments. Leaders, governments and individuals are operating in a world where information
moves faster than ever before, and consensus on what is true is becoming harder to achieve.
The challenge is no longer access to information. The challenge is knowing what - and who - to trust. The ability to distinguish truth from manipulation is no longer a specialist skill. It is a leadership skill.
The most valuable currency in the world today is attention. Every platform, movement and brand is competing for it.
We make decisions every day based on information designed to capture and hold our attention.
The questions I once asked on the frontline now shape the work I do around the world. I help organisations, governments, leaders and audiences navigate an
increasingly complex information environment, build trust and make better decisions.
Whether through keynote speaking, executive advisory work or education, my focus remains the same: helping people think more clearly in a world competing for their attention.
My work draws on lessons learned in war zones, newsrooms, boardrooms and classrooms. Because the greatest challenge of our time isn't access to information. It's knowing what to trust, what to ignore and how to think clearly amid the noise.
Warm regards
Paula
"modern conflict is fought
not only with weapons, but with narratives, images & information."
- paula slier
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