Our Research

The Initiative for Peacebuilding aims to deepen understanding about complex conflict issues and build important relationships with local actors in Asian and Pacific countries who are leading peacebuilding efforts in our region. By enhancing the availability of expert scholarship and experienced peacebuilding practitioners, the Initiative offers rigorous research into the causes of conflict, capacity to organise and strengthen dialogue amongst a range of stakeholders, and imaginative thinking about means for peacebuilding and conflict prevention.

Researchers

Researchers in the research group. Showing 10 of 10.

Dr Anne Decobert

Dr Rachael Diprose

Dr Dolly Kikon

Prof John Langmore

Prof Adrian Little

Prof Derek McDougall

Dr Tania Miletic

A/Prof Tilman Ruff

Dr Carla Winston

Dr Lesley Pruitt

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 17 for the research group.

Conflict Prevention and Peace Building: Developing a Policy and Program for Australia

2017 - 2020

Completed

Consultancy on Peace Interventions Into Violent Conflict in Asia

2021 - 2021

Completed

Health systems convergence, development and peace-building in Southeastern Myanmar

2019 - 2019

Completed

MANY CONFLICTS, MANY PATHS TO PEACE?: A GENDER-SENSITIVE APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING AND SUPPORTING GLOBAL YOUTH CAPACITY IN PEACEBUILDING

2012 - 2015

Completed

Evaluation of the 'Building on Foundations for Future Peace in the Deep South of Thailand' Project

2021 - 2022

Active

International Literature Review of Approaches to State Support for Peace Processes

2016 - 2016

Completed

Evaluation of the 'Supporting Conflict Transformation in Rakhine State' Project

2021 - 2021

Completed

Governing Resource Conflict in Bougainville - accountability for past and the future

2014 - 2015

Completed

Islamic movements in secular societies: grammars of experience

There is increasing public debate about the place of Islam in western societies, but little reference to lived experience. At a same time, w..

2007 - 2012

Completed

States, Frontiers and Conflict in the Asia Pacific

2014 - 2019

Completed

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 537 for the research group.

Security Through Sustainable Peace: Australian International Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

John Langmore, Tania Miletic, Aran Martin, Bob Breen

Report | 2020

Review of the Australian Department of foreign Affairs and Trade's experience with conflict prevention and peacebuilding and recom..

State Support for Peace Processes: A Multi-Country Review

John Langmore, Tania Miletic, Aran Martin, Nathan Shea

Report | 2017

Launched by Ms Frances Adamson, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 7 June 2017, State Support for Peace P..

Security Through Sustainable Peace: Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Australian Foreign Policy

Tania Miletic, John Langmore, Aran Martin, Bob Breen

Report | 2020

Youth, peace & security: gender matters in Asia and the Pacific

Lesley Pruitt

Journal article | 2021 | GLOBAL CHANGE PEACE & SECURITY

Youth have long been involved in informal peacebuilding, and the United Nations’ recent adoption of the Youth, Peace and Security ..

Dancing Through the Dissonance Creative Movement and Peacebuilding

Lesley Pruitt, Erica Rose Jeffrey

Book | 2020

This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates around peace..

From research to action and the spaces in-between: experiences from peacebuilding programs for young people in Cambodia and Uganda.

Tania Miletic, Nikola BALVIN

Book Chapter | 2020

Drawing on contribution analysis (Morton, Research Evaluation 24:405–419, 2015), this chapter outlines two case studies which exam..

Health as a bridge to peace in Myanmar's Kayin State: 'working encounters' for community development

Anne Decobert

Journal article | 2020 | Third World Quarterly

This article explores ‘health as a bridge to peace’ in Myanmar’s Kayin State. It focuses on an Auxiliary Midwife training programm..

Diaspora Peacebuilding and Reconciliation. Seminar Outcomes Report.

Tania Miletic

Report | 2018

This report is grounded in discussions held at the Diaspora Learning Network’s (DLN) Seminar on ‘Diaspora Peacebuilding and Reconc..

Book Review: Cascades of violence: war, crime and peacebuilding across South Asia

John Langmore

Journal article | 2020 | Global Change, Peace & Security

Cambodia's Peace After 25 Years

T MILETIC

Journal article | 2016 | Australian Outlook

This week it is 25 years since the Paris Peace Accords marked the official beginning of the end of the violent civil war in Cambod..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 40 for the research group.

Myanmar's coup might discourage international aid, but donors should adapt, not leave

Anne Décobert

In recent years, international donors have poured large amounts of aid into development and peacebuilding programs in Myanmar. But when mili..

February 19, 2021

conversation Article

Lessons Australia could learn from other countries to strengthen peace and stability

John Langmore

The war in Syria has been responsible for many of the high number of deaths in wars in recent years. Reuters/Abdalrhman IsmailThere has been..

July 23, 2017

conversation Article

Daring to resolve conflicts without war

John Langmore AM

There has been an alarming upward trend in the number of deaths in war since 2012.According to the authoritative Stockholm International Pea..

June 6, 2017

pursuit Article

Celebrating 75 years: The UN’s past and future

John Langmore AM

On Saturday 24th October, the United Nations will mark the 75th anniversary of its first meeting. The global unanimity which greeted the UN’..

October 22, 2020

pursuit Article

War and peace: Australia's enormous September at the UN

John Langmore

Foreign minister Julie Bishop addresses the UN general assembly in New York. This session has been among the most tumultuous in recent memor..

September 29, 2013

conversation Article

Preparing for peace: it's time to rethink defence spending

John Langmore

Does Australia really need 12 Joint Strike Fighters? U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Joely SantiagoThe most interesting question relating to the c..

May 10, 2012

conversation Article

Japan plans to dump a million tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific. But Australia has nuclear waste problems, too

Tilman Ruff, Margaret Beavis

The Japanese government recently announced plans to release into the sea more than 1 million tonnes of radioactive water from the severely d..

October 22, 2020

conversation Article

The nuclear weapons ban treaty is groundbreaking, even if the nuclear powers haven't signed

Tilman Ruff

KCNA via KNS/APToday, many around the world will celebrate the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty to..

January 21, 2021

conversation Article

How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize

Tilman Ruff, Dimity Hawkins

Tilman Ruff (back centre) and a group of ICAN campaigners protest outside Australia's permanent mission to the UN at Geneva. Tim Wright,..

October 9, 2017

conversation Article

Partnerships between universities and arms manufacturers raise thorny ethical questions

Alex Edney-Browne, Tilman Ruff

The Australian government is undertaking its biggest defence build-up since the second world war. Research partnerships between Australian u..

March 15, 2018

conversation Article

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The Initiative for Peacebuilding brings together research, teaching, and policy development from a wide range of disciplines to support effective engagement in conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Projects

Conflict Prevention and Peace Building: Developing a Policy and Program for Australia

Consultancy on Peace Interventions Into Violent Conflict in Asia

Health systems convergence, development and peace-building in Southeastern Myanmar

MANY CONFLICTS, MANY PATHS TO PEACE?: A GENDER-SENSITIVE APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING AND SUPPORTING GLOBAL YOUTH CAPACITY IN PEACEBUILDING

Evaluation of the 'Building on Foundations for Future Peace in the Deep South of Thailand' Project

International Literature Review of Approaches to State Support for Peace Processes

Evaluation of the 'Supporting Conflict Transformation in Rakhine State' Project

Governing Resource Conflict in Bougainville - accountability for past and the future

Islamic movements in secular societies: grammars of experience

States, Frontiers and Conflict in the Asia Pacific

Scholarly Works

Security Through Sustainable Peace: Australian International Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

State Support for Peace Processes: A Multi-Country Review

Security Through Sustainable Peace: Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Australian Foreign Policy

Youth, peace & security: gender matters in Asia and the Pacific

Dancing Through the Dissonance Creative Movement and Peacebuilding

From research to action and the spaces in-between: experiences from peacebuilding programs for young people in Cambodia and Uganda.

Health as a bridge to peace in Myanmar's Kayin State: 'working encounters' for community development

Diaspora Peacebuilding and Reconciliation. Seminar Outcomes Report.

Book Review: Cascades of violence: war, crime and peacebuilding across South Asia

Cambodia's Peace After 25 Years

News

Myanmar's coup might discourage international aid, but donors should adapt, not leave

Lessons Australia could learn from other countries to strengthen peace and stability

Daring to resolve conflicts without war

Celebrating 75 years: The UN’s past and future

War and peace: Australia's enormous September at the UN

Preparing for peace: it's time to rethink defence spending

Japan plans to dump a million tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific. But Australia has nuclear waste problems, too

The nuclear weapons ban treaty is groundbreaking, even if the nuclear powers haven't signed

How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize

Partnerships between universities and arms manufacturers raise thorny ethical questions

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