Gwynne Dyer

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Michael Gwynne Dyer Template:Post-nominals (born 17 April 1943) is a British-Canadian military historian, author, professor, journalist, broadcaster, and retired naval officer. Dyer rose to prominence in the 1980s with the release of his television series War in 1983 and the publication of an accompanying book in 1985. Since the 1960s he has lived in London, England, where he works as a syndicated columnist. Dyer is a noted expert in Middle Eastern affairs, having completed his graduate work in this area and written several books on the subject. More recently he has focused on climate change and its geopolitical consequences.

Biography

Dyer was born during World War II in St. John's to an Irish Catholic family. At the time of his birth, the province was the Dominion of Newfoundland, then under direct rule by a commission from London. When Newfoundland joined Canada on 31 March 1949 he became de jure a Canadian citizen. Dyer joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963, a Master of Arts in military history from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1966 and a Doctor of Philosophy in military and Middle Eastern history at King's College London in 1973.<ref name="EC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Dyer served in the Canadian, American and British naval reserves. He was employed as a senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1973–77. In 1973 he began writing articles for leading London newspapers on the Arab–Israeli conflict, and soon decided to abandon academic life for a full-time career in journalism. Dyer was the O.D. Skelton Memorial lecturer on March 23, 1998, in St. John's, Newfoundland.<ref name="GC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the fall of 2002 Royal Roads University awarded Dyer an Honorary Degree.<ref name="RR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2010, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Dyer lives in Camden Town, London<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with his second wife Tina Viljoen. The couple met during the production of his 1983 television series War, where Viljoen was a co-producer. They have one daughter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Dyer also has two sons from his first marriage to journalist Clare Dyer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> One of his sons is CBC journalist Evan Dyer.<ref name="Mastracci2021">Template:Cite news</ref>

Works

Theses

Books

Documentaries

  • War (miniseries) (1983 8-part miniseries) produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and broadcast in 45 countries including by the BBC and PBS. The third part of the series titled The Profession of Arms was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The series won an ACTRA Award and the Public Jury's Grand Prize at the International Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland.<ref name="RR"/> His collaborator was Tina Viljoen. A book of the same name based on the series was published in 1985.<ref name="GC"/>
  • The Defence of Canada (1986) A collaboration with Tina Viljoen for the NFB and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)<ref name="GC"/>
  • Harder Than It Looks (1987)
  • The Human Race (1994) - Examines the roots, nature and future of human politics.<ref name="GC"/>
  • Protection Force (1995) - A three-part series on peacekeepers in Bosnia.<ref name="RR"/>

Radio series

  • Seven Faces of Communism (1978) - A seven-part radio and TV series produced for the CBC and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 1978.<ref name="EC"/>
  • Brazil (1979)
  • The Catholic Counter-Revolution (1980)
  • War (1981)
  • The Gorbachev Revolution (1988–90)
  • Millennium (1996)
  • Climate Wars on CBC Radio Ideas (2008) (3-part documentary)

Awards

Honorary degree

  • 2012, Trent University
  • 2009, Lakehead University
  • 2002, Royal Roads University
  • 2001, Memorial University

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