Contributors

Peter Albrecht is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. He is the co-author of several books on security in Sierra Leone, including Reconstructing Security after Conflict: Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Securing Sierra Leone, 1997–2013: Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action (Taylor and Francis/RUSI, 2014), and co-editor of Policing and the Politics of Order-Making (Routledge, 2015). His work is published in several journals, including Journal of Modern African Studies, African Studies Review and Ethnos.

Matthew Allen works at the interstices of geography, political science and anthropology. The unifying theme for his scholarly and policy work in the western Pacific over the past 20 years has been the relationships between social, political and environmental change. Matthew’s research interests include extractive resource industries and violence, agrarian change and rural development, and state–society relations. He has published extensively and is author of Greed and Grievance: Ex-militants’ Perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands, 1998–2003 (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013).

Volker Boege is a peace researcher and historian, honorary research fellow at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, and co-director of Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia. His main fields of work are postconflict peacebuilding and state formation, environmental degradation and conflict. From the 1980s through to the early 2000s, Volker worked with a number of peace research institutions in Germany and Switzerland. His most recent research project is titled ‘Disentangling international and local understandings in peacebuilding: Insights from the “laboratory” of Bougainville’. Volker has published numerous articles, papers and books in peace research and contemporary history.

Dr Srinjoy Bose is European Union COFUND (Marie Sklowodska-Curie Action) Fellow at the School of Government & International Affairs, Durham University. He is co-editor of Afghanistan-Challenges and Prospects (Routledge, 2017) and co–guest editor of the journal special issue Elections and the State: Critical Perspectives on Democracy Promotion in Afghanistan (Conflict, Security and Development, 2016).

M. Anne Brown is a teacher and researcher at the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University, Melbourne. Anne’s research and practice interests focus on political community across division, peacebuilding and state formation in heterogeneous states, social dialogue processes, social resilience and the interface of practice and theory. She worked with the Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs on the Vanuatu Kastom Governance Partnership (2005–2012) and is a director of PaCSIA, a non-government organisation working on dialogue processes. She is author of Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics (Manchester University Press, 2002), articles and chapters, and an editor of collections.

Imelda Deinla is a fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance and director of the Philippines Project at The Australian National University. Her research interests are on legal hybridity; women and peacebuilding in Mindanao, Philippines; rule of law; and ASEAN trade and governance networks. She recently published The Development of the Rule of Law in ASEAN: The State and Regional Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Sinclair Dinnen is a senior fellow with the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. With a background in socio-legal studies and criminology, his research examines issues of legal pluralism, policing, security governance, politics and state formation in the south-west Pacific. He is co-editor (with Matthew Allen) of State-building and State Formation in the Western Pacific—Solomon Islands in Transition? (Routledge, 2016).

Miranda Forsyth is an associate professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, The Australian National University. She formerly lectured in criminal law at the University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu. Miranda’s research focuses on the possibilities and challenges of the inter-operation of state and non-state justice and regulatory systems. Her present focus is on examining these issues in the context of the regulation of sorcery- and witchcraft-related violence in Melanesia. Miranda is the author of A Bird that Flies with Two Wings: Kastom and State Justice Systems in Vanuatu (ANU E Press, 2009) and co-author with Sue Farran of Weaving Intellectual Property Policy in Small Island Developing States (Intersentia, 2015).

Nicole George is a senior lecturer in peace and conflict studies at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on gender, violence, peacebuilding, conflict transition and security and has been undertaken in Fiji, New Caledonia and Bougainville. She is the author of Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji (ANU E Press, 2012) and has articles appearing in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Policing and Society, International Political Science Review, Peacebuilding, Australian Journal of International Affairs, The Contemporary Pacific and The Australian Feminist Law Journal.

Damian Grenfell is a lecturer in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in global studies at RMIT University, Melbourne. He was director of the Centre for Global Research from 2012 to 2017. His research focuses on social conflict and change in postcolonial states, particularly Timor-Leste, with an emphasis on gender, security, justice and reconciliation in the context of nation formation.

Shahar Hameiri is associate professor of international politics and associate director of the Graduate Centre in Governance and International Affairs, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. His most recent books are International Intervention and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), co-authored with Caroline Hughes and Fabio Scarpello, and Governing Borderless Threats (Cambridge University Press, 2015), co-authored with Lee Jones. His sole or jointly authored articles have appeared in leading journals, including International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and Development and Change. He tweets @ShaharHameiri.

Charles T. Hunt is vice-chancellor’s senior research/ARC DECRA fellow at the Centre for Global Research in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne. He previously lectured in international security in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Charles’s research focuses on peace and conflict with an emphasis on security and justice system reform in Africa. He is author of UN Peace Operations and International Policing: Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact and Learning to Learn (Routledge, 2015) and co-author of Forging New Conventional Wisdom Beyond International Policing (Brill, 2013).

Victor Igreja teaches international studies, anthropology and peace and conflict studies at the University of Southern Queensland. Recent publications appeared in Current Anthropology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Anthropological Quarterly, International Journal of Transitional Justice, International Encyclopedia of Anthropology and Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Journal of Religion in Africa and Revista Estudos Políticos.

Paul Jackson is professor of African politics at the University of Birmingham. He was formerly the head of the university’s School of Government and Society, and director of both the International Development Department (University of Birmingham) and the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (Institute of Development Studies). Paul has worked in the fields of politics and security for several governments, the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. He is a current member of the Folke Bernadotte Institute working group on security-sector reform. He has published extensively on security and development issues.

Lee Jones is a reader in international politics in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London. His most recent books are Societies under Siege (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Governing Borderless Threats (Cambridge University Press, 2015), co-authored with Shahar Hameiri. His sole or jointly authored articles have appeared in leading journals, including International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and Development and Change. He tweets @drleejones.

Lia Kent is a fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, The Australian National University. Since 2000, she has conducted research in and on Timor-Leste. She is currently working on a project titled ‘After conflict: Memory frictions in Timor-Leste and Aceh’, funded by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Lia is the author of The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor (Routledge, 2012) and numerous journal articles and book chapters on themes related to transitional justice, peacebuilding, memory politics and gender in Timor-Leste.

Gavin Mount is a lecturer at UNSW Canberra. His primary research is on the global politics of ethnic conflict. He also teaches in the fields of global security, great power politics and conflict transformation and was awarded a Rector’s Commendation for Excellence in Classroom Teaching in 2010. His current research explores patterns of postconflict scholarship and the security linkages between non-state actors and non-military issues.

Oliver Richmond is a research professor in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies in the Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He is also international professor, College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea and a visiting professor at the University of Tromso, Norway. His publications include Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies (Oxford University Press, 2016), Failed Statebuilding: Intervention and the Dynamics of Peace Formation (Yale University Press, 2014), Peace: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014), A Post-liberal Peace (Routledge, 2011), Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding (with Jason Franks, Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Peace in International Relations (Routledge, 2008) and The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He is editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies and co-editor (with Roger Mac Ginty) of the journal Peacebuilding.

James Scambary is a research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, The Australian National University. He has worked in the fields of communal conflict, peacebuilding, corruption and governance in East Timor for over a decade, conducting research for a range of agencies including the New York Social Science Research Council, the World Bank and, most recently, the Asia Foundation. He is currently working on a research project on the role of patronage in East Timor’s electoral politics.

Ceridwen Spark is a vice-chancellor’s senior research fellow in Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne. She conducts research on gender and social change in the Pacific and is widely published in anthropology, feminist and politics journals. Ceridwen has worked collaboratively in Papua New Guinea for over a decade, including most recently with International Women’s Development Agency in Bougainville and Equal Playing Field in Port Moresby.

Joanne Wallis is a senior lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, College of Asia & the Pacific at The Australian National University. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and masters degrees in arts (political science) and law at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on peacebuilding and security in the Pacific islands, with a special focus on Timor-Leste and Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Joanne is the author of Constitution Making during State Building (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Pacific Power? Australia’s Strategy in the Pacific Islands (Melbourne University Publishing, 2017).

Todd Wassel is an international development professional who has worked in more than 15 countries managing complex programs in difficult and politically challenging environments. He is currently the Asia Foundation’s country representative in Timor-Leste. Todd has helped develop participatory tenure mapping in Kosovo; managed programs on land disputes, return and restitution for internally displaced persons, gender-based titling and inheritance reform in Sri Lanka; and worked with the police and communities on hybrid justice systems in Timor-Leste. Todd holds a master’s degree in international development and conflict resolution from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, United States.