Mayte Carrasco is a freelance war correspondent (Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya) working in five languages for Spanish and international media. A researcher for RESET (Research for Security and Transnational Governance) she is an expert in Defense and Security Studies (University of Reading) and a teacher of "Journalism and Conflicts. How Media can contribute to peace" for the UNESCO chair of Philosophy for Peace. She writes analysis for Spanish media and the IEEE (Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defence).