Staff

Executive Director

noel_profile.jpgDr Noel M Morada - former Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Southeast Asian Program at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC in Spring 2008. He has published works on R2P in Southeast Asia, specifically the roadmap to promoting and building a constituency in the region, as well as the challenges in doing so under the exisiting ASEAN Charter. He is also director of the Philippines programme of the Centre. His publications and research interests also include ASEAN regionalism and external relations with major powers, the ASEAN Regional Forum and cooperative security in the Asia Pacific, and human security and human development issues in the region.

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Sarah Teitt - Sarah is the Outreach Director at the APR2P Centre, where she is responsible for designing and implementing strategies to foster dialogue among various government and civil society stakeholders in the region, facilitating the building of national R2P programmes, and encouraging the adoption of measures to implement the Responsibility to Protect in the Asia Pacific. Sarah also serves as the Centre's China Program Leader, and is working toward completing a PhD at the University of Queensland on China's role in preventing and responding to genocide and mass atrocities. She has an MA in Peace and Conflict Resolution (University of Queensland, 2006) and a BA in International Relations with a concentration in East Asian Studies (Roanoke College, 2002). Her research interests include China's foreign policy in relation to conflict and humanitarian crises in the Asia-Pacific region and Africa, UN peacekeeping, and the protection of women and children in armed conflict, particularly in relation to gender-based crimes and violations.

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Acting Research Director

alex_b_profile_pic_3_resize.jpgAlex Bellamy is Professor of International Relations and former Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. He is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Global Responsibility to Protect. He has written or edited over ten books, including (with Paul D. Williams), Understanding Peacekeeping (Cambridge, Polity, 2004 – 2nd edition due 2009) and The Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities (Cambridge, Polity, 2009), and over forty journal articles.

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Editor-in-Chief, Global Responsibility to Protect, R2P Book Series & Project Leader - Early Warning

sara-davies.gifSara E. Davies is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy/Griffith Asia Institute, at Griffith University, Australia. She is author of two books, 'Legitimizing Rejection: International Refugee Law in Southeast Asia' (Martinus Nijhoff, 2007) and 'The Global Politics of Health' (Polity 2009) and many articles published in journals such as 'International Affairs', 'International Journal of Refugee Law', 'Security Dialogue', and 'International Relations of the Asia-Pacific'. She is currently writing 'Implementing the Responsibility to Protect' with Alex Bellamy and a book on the politics of infectious disease surveillance.

 


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Marie Hobman is the Centre Manager for the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Marie comes to the Centre from a long background in Medicine having managed the operations of two Schools within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. In 2007 she and her husband relocated from Sydney to Brisbane and joined the University of Queensland as the Acting School Manager at the School of Social Science. Marie is responsible for managing the financial and administration operations of the Centre.

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Annie Pohlman - Program Leader for the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia. Annie comes to the Centre from an Indonesian and Southeast Asian studies background. She is currently completing her PhD thesis, entitled, 'Ashes in My Mouth: Women, Testimony and Violence during the 1965-66 Massacres in Indonesia'. She has lectured in a wide range of areas within the University of Queensland, including comparitive genocide studies, Indonesian history, Southeast Asian history and politics, as well as Indonesian language and cultural studies. Her research interests and publciation areas include Southeast Asian history and politics, genocide studies, gendered experiences of violence, torture studies, trauma and narrative, and Indonesian cultural history.

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Deborah Mayersen - Program Leader - Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Previously, she lectured in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Deborah's doctoral thesis explored how risk factors for genocide develop over time, utilising the Armenian and Rwandan genocides as case studies. It also considered the pre-genocidal massacres that occurred prior to each of these genocides, and the role of constraints in inhibiting or delaying the onset of genocide. Her current research interests include genocide prevention, and the role of political will in international responses to genocide.
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Program Leader - Protection of Civilians

Charles Hunt is a higher-degree researcher in the School of Political Science and International Studies at UQ and the Program Leader - Protection of Civilians. He holds a BSc. (Joint Honours) in Political Science & Economics and MA in International Studies, both from the University of Birmingham, UK. He was previously a Research Associate at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra, Ghana and subsequently worked as a consultant with the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States, on projects concerned with developing the civilian dimension of the African Standby Force and enhancing the role of police in peace operations, respectively.

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R2P Fund Officer

jess-gifkins.gifJess Gifkins - is a PhD candidate with the University of Queensland researching UN Security Council decision-making in response to the crisis in Darfur. She works with the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect as the R2P Fund Officer. She has previously completed a Masters in International Development at the University of New South Wales, and a Bachelor of Arts in Critical and Cultural Studies at the Macquarie University. She has also completed an internship with the Australian Refugee Rights Alliance, which included attending UNHCR's annual Executive Committee sessions.Tel: +61 07 3346 6435 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

Senior Researcher - Prevention Program

stephen_1.jpgStephen McLoughlin – Senior Researcher for Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities. Stephen is currently enrolled in a PhD program in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, with a primary focus on conflict prevention and the UN system. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Government, History and Literature) and a Master’s Degree (International Studies) at the University of Queensland, and has spent many years living in Turkey and the Middle East. His research interests include the extent to which knowledge of the root causes of intrastate conflict can be used to create policies on structural prevention, as well as the unresolved territorial disputes in the Caucasus, especially Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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PhD Student

alex_p_resize.jpgAlex Pound – Alex is a PhD student within the Centre. He has previously completed a BA with first class honours from the University of Queensland in 2006. His research focuses on evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of Conflict Assessment Frameworks.

 

 

 

 

 

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Assistant to the Executive Director

 

 

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Kimberly Nackers - Assistant to the Executive Director. Kimberly is presently enrolled at the University of Queensland in the Advanced Masters program of International Studies. She has a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Georgia State University (2005). Her current research interests include constructivist theories on norms, and methods by which states attempt to evade international norms.

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Associate Editor, Global Responsibility to Protect Journal

luke_profile_2.jpgLuke Glanville is associate editor of Global Responsibility to Protect. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. His thesis examines the historical develoment of the notion that sovereign states have a responsibility to protect their populations from grave violations of human rights. It traces the emergence of sovereign responsibilities from early modern Europe to today and explores the importance of this history for present thinking about the 'responsibility to protect'. Luke has articles forthcoming in European Journal of International Relations and Journal of Genocide Research, and has previously published in Global Change, Peace and Security and Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

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Centre Librarian

Raymond Kwun Sun Lau is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. He is the librarian of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. His thesis is focused on international society's response to mass atrocities through the application of the Responsibility to Protect norm and International Criminal Justice, in particular the International Criminal Court (ICC). He holds two MA degrees in International Relations and Cultural Studies and a BA in humanities with a concentration in modern history. His current research interests include punishment and justice, international judicial intervention and humanitarian intervention since the 1990s.

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