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Recent & ongoing research
Particular lines of thematic research which will be supported by the Centre include:
- emerging ethnic and religious identity as a factor in conflict in weak and unstable states
in the region;
- problems of fragmentation and state capacity in small island states undergoing rapid change;
- the role of external actors in mediation, conflict resolution, peace monitoring and weapons disposal;
- concepts and practices of human security in Southeast Asia;
- the dynamics of post-conflict reconciliation, demilitarization, and reconstruction;
- the possibilities of new types of autonomy arrangement as a means of
managing ethnic tensions;
- the role and delivery of aid in post-conflict reconstruction and
rehabilitation.
The CCPCSAP promotes research within the Australian National University, and in collaboration
with other national, regional, and international institutions and scholars, on conflicts,
peacemaking, and post-conflict reconstruction. It will build on recent and ongoing research and
practical experience of peacemaking processes by members of The Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies. These include:
- studies of the the Bougainville conflict and peace-making process, and participation in the peace process, by Anthony Regan, and
research by Bougainvillean PhD scholar Ruth Spriggs and R.J. May;
- participation in the peace process In Solomon Islands, by Sinclair Dinnen, Anthony Regan, David
Hegarty (on secondment from DFAT) and Tarcisius Kabutaulaka;
- long-term research and participation in constitution making in Fiji, by Brij Lal, and research
on elections by Ben Reilly, Steven Ratuva and Fijian PhD scholar Alumita Durutalo;
- studies of the role of regional institutions in conflict management in the South Pacific, by Greg Fry and
Anthony Regan;
- research on restorative justice in the management of social conflict in the
island Pacific, by Sinclair Dinnen and Michael Morgan;
- long-term research in (West) Papua by Chris Ballard, and work by Otto Ondawame, Jaap Timmer, R.J. May and several
PhD sholars;
- ongoing research on the conflict in Aceh, by Greg Fealy and Ed Aspinall;
- long-term research on conflict and peace initiatives in Muslim Mindanao, by R.J. May, and studies by Kit
Collier and PhD scholar Nathan Quimpo;
- studies of the Leftist insurgency in the Philippines, by Kit Collier and Nathan Quimpo;
- studies of and direct involvement in post-conflict reconstruction in East Timor, by James Fox, Anthony Regan and Didi Soares;
- studies of state responses to insurgencies in Burma/Myanmar, by Des Ball, Trevor Wilson, Emily Rudland, Morten Pedersen and David Mathieson, and former PhD scholar Maung Aung Myoe;
- theoretical and applied work on the norms and ethics of international humanitarian intervention,
by Chris Reus-Smit, Raymond Apthorpe, and Fiona Terry;
- research and consultancy experience on the design of state institutions (including electoral arrangements) to
minimise ethnic and regional conflict, by Brij Lal, Peter Larmour, R.J. May, Anthony Regan and Ben
Reilly.
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