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0000-0002-8767-917X
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University of Adelaide
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Political Science | International Relations | Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies | Australian Government and Politics | Other Studies in Human Society | Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific | New Zealand Government and Politics |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
International Relations not elsewhere classified | Government and Politics not elsewhere classified | Political Systems | Defence and Security Policy | National Security | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis
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Publications
Money, Manipulation and Misunderstanding on Manus Island
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2016
Nation-Building, Autonomy Arrangements, and Deferred Referendums: Unresolved Questions from Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
‘Friendly islands’ in an unfriendly system: Examining the process of Tonga's WTO accession
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-11-2010
Ten Years of Peace: Assessing Bougainville's Progress and Prospects
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2012
Building a liberal-local hybrid peace and state in Bougainville
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
Constitution Making during State Building
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 15-09-2014
Abstract: How can fragmented, ided societies that are not immediately compatible with centralised statehood best adjust to state structures? This book employs both comparative constitutional law and comparative politics, as it proposes the idea of a 'constituent process', whereby public participation in constitution making plays a positive role in state building. This can help to foster a sense of political community and produce a constitution that enhances the legitimacy and effectiveness of state institutions because a liberal-local hybrid can emerge to balance international liberal practices with local customary ones. This book represents a sustained attempt to examine the role that public participation has played during state building and the consequences it has had for the performance of the state. It is also the first attempt to conduct a detailed empirical study of the role played by the liberal-local-hybrid approach in state building.
How important is participatory constitution-making? Lessons from Timor-Leste and Bougainville
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2016
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00108367231184724
Abstract: What happens if international interveners feel emotions that they consider unsanctioned, unwanted and unprofessional? What if they enact and manage their emotions in ways that they – or others – deem unacceptable? If international interveners face anxiety about being ‘too emotional’ or not feeling or expressing the ‘right’ emotions, does this challenge their sense of identity? And what consequences could this have for peacebuilding and the conflict-affected population in which they were working? Building on the growing body of critical peace and conflict scholarship that has analysed international interveners at the micro-scale, this article analyses how in idual interveners’ emotional and embodied experiences influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding. Based on a discourse analysis of the memoirs of 10 international interveners, this article identifies two primary interpretive repertoires that the interveners employed and argues that they generated two ideal-type subject positions: the intervener as objective, rational, technocratic ‘expert’ and the intervener as irrational, fallible, vulnerable ‘human’. These subject positions determined the feeling rules that the interveners followed and the dilemmas they faced. This, in turn, affected how the interveners perceived the conflict-affected societies in which they were working, and how they understood and practised peacebuilding.
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00108367231184725
Abstract: While the ‘emotion turn’ has emerged as an influential analytical lens in International Relations (IR), there is not yet a well-developed understanding of the role that emotions play in facilitating or inhibiting peace. This special issue of Cooperation and Conflict engages with the analytical potential of emotions and the promise this perspective holds for innovative analyses of peace processes and peacebuilding. To demonstrate the political significance of emotions to peace, the contributors explore how emotions shape the bounds and boundaries of actors and alliances committed to fostering peaceful societies. This introductory article offers possible avenues to leverage the analytical potential of IR’s emotions agenda to engage with peace and peacebuilding. First, we discuss how the emotions agenda contributes to the conversation about what peace is and should look like. Second, we argue that emotions can help us to articulate peace as an embodied knowledge of complex socio-political relations and power dynamics. To visualize ‘peace’ without the permanent contrast of violence, we mobilize this perspective to illuminate actors’ practices and the constraints they face in the pursuit of a peaceful political order. Third, we discuss what an emotions agenda for peace might entail for critical and constructive peacebuilding studies.
Political reconciliation in Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Bougainville: the dark side of hybridity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-03-2016
The South Pacific: ‘arc of instability’ or ‘arc of opportunity’?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Transnationalism and the Development of the Deterritorialised Tongan Nation-State
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2008
Unipolar Anxieties: Australia's Melanesia Policy after the Age of Intervention
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-11-2015
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.114
Tā, Vā, and Lā: Re-imagining the geopolitics of the Pacific Islands
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
Displaced security? The relationships, routines and rhythms of peacebuilding interveners
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-09-2020
Abstract: This article considers what treating in idual international interveners engaged in peacebuilding work as referent objects can tell us about emplaced security. This is important because in idual interveners are erse, embodied agents who can impact the agency, peace and security of conflict-affected populations. It argues that applying an ontological security lens can provide a partial explanation for why interveners develop narratives and perform practices, including why they sometimes identify and behave in counterproductive, and even damaging, ways. The final section considers why an analytical focus on place is valuable, noting that place-based experiences and place-identities are formative of ontological security. It argues that treating interveners as a referent object provides opportunities to rethink the tendency to focus on home as the key site of emplacement in the ontological security literature. Building on this, it argues that examining the emplaced security of interveners invites us to examine the political nature and consequences of interveners’ physical and ontological security-seeking narratives and practices, including their creation of the material and ideational structures of intervention spaces and places.
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Pacific Countries in the WTO
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 25-07-2011
What role can decentralisation play in state-building? Lessons from Timor-Leste and Bougainville
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2013
A liberal-local hybrid peace project in action? The increasing engagement between the local and liberal in Timor-Leste
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-02-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210511000787
Abstract: The liberal peace project has dominated state-building operations since the end of the Cold War, including in Timor-Leste. However, the attempt to institutionalise the liberal peace faced significant challenges in Timor-Leste's fragmented subsistence-based society. This resulted in the creation of shallowly rooted and poorly-understood liberal state institutions that were disconnected from the majority of Timorese, who continued to follow their local sociopolitical practices. In response, the state has increasingly engaged with these local practices in order to create state institutions that make sense to the people they seek to govern. This engagement has occurred through the formalisation of local sociopolitical institutions, the recognition of local justice systems and the utilisation of local ceremonies and practices. Therefore, this article argues that a liberal-local hybrid peace project has emerged to guide state-building in Timor-Leste, which may indicate how similar projects could develop in the future.
Is ‘good enough’ peacebuilding good enough? The potential and pitfalls of the local turn in peacebuilding in Timor-Leste
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-08-2016
Pacific Pause: The Rhetoric of Special & Differential Treatment, the Reality of WTO Accession
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1476153
Reconceiving the Roles of Religious Civil Society Organizations in Transitional Justice: Evidence from the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Bougainville
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 23-08-2017
DOI: 10.1093/IJTJ/IJX020
‘Cut and Paste’ Constitution-Making in Timor-Leste
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-2019
DOI: 10.1093/CJCL/CXZ012
Abstract: When Timor-Leste (re)gained its independence in 2002, it appeared to be a triumph of international state building. In a relatively short period, a massive United Nations (UN)-run mission had purportedly built the institutions of a liberal democratic state. State building took place in a highly globalized context there was a large UN presence as well as international non-governmental organizations, academics, journalists, and activists. In addition, many exiled Timorese leaders returned to play a role. While constitution making was central to state building, there are questions about the legitimacy, effectiveness, and stability of the Timor-Leste Constitution and the state institutions that it created. This article focuses on three aspects of the interplay between the global and local during the constitution-making process. First, it considers the relationship between the UN and Timorese elites, finding that the UN adopted a hands-off approach that created space for certain elites to dominate and politicize the process. These returning exiles engaged in ‘cut and paste’ constitution making, with much of the Timor-Leste Constitution based on the 1989 version of the Portuguese Constitution (modified to an extent by the 1990 Mozambican Constitution). Second, it analyses whether the constitution-making process was a true exercise of the constituent power of the Timorese people and concludes that the dominance of certain elites contributed to social ision. Third, it discusses the significance of public participation, noting that minimal participation has meant that the Constitution does not reflect the views of most Timorese people. This is even though the principle of ‘popular sovereignty’ implies that, at least in states that aspire to be liberal democracies, people should be given the opportunity to participate in making their state’s Constitution. It concludes by arguing that the Timorese people missed the opportunity for their Constitution to define the political bond between them and embed state institutions in the local context.
Victors, Villains and Victims: Capitalizing on Memory in Timor-Leste
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
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University Of Cambridge
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Related Funding Activities
The Effect Of Political Reconciliation In The Asia-Pacific
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 2014
End Date: 12-2018
Amount: $165,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160104692
Start Date: 06-2016
End Date: 06-2023
Amount: $156,345.00
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View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200101994
Start Date: 12-2020
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $202,959.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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