About
Dr Wendy Lambourne-
Her research focuses on analysing and evaluating transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence, including post-genocide, with a regional focus on Africa and Asia/Pacific, including field research conducted in Cambodia, East Timor, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
Peace and Conflict Studies
Summary
The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) was established in 1988 through the inspiration of students and academics at the University of Sydney who wanted to create the opportunity for study of the causes and manifestations of violent conflict and the means of achieving peace with justice.
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Research Location
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Faculty of Arts
Program Type
Synopsis
CPACS maintains an active interdisciplinary research program, conducted by the Director, academic staff and affiliates, Visiting Fellows, project coordinators and a fast-growing cohort of postgraduate research students. Past research has focussed on disarmament, human rights and corporate responsibility, Aboriginal night patrols, nonviolent policing, and the effects of racism on Lebanese youth in Western Sydney. Current research priorities include peace journalism and the role of the media in conflict resolution; transitional justice and reconciliation in Cambodia, Rwanda, East Timor and Sierra Leone; peacebuilding theory and practice, the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission and the role of civil society; human rights and peaceful dialogue in West Papua; genocide prevention, responsibility to protect and the need for a United Nations Emergency Peace Service; and the ‘war on terror’, erosion of civil liberties, use of torture and the study of terrorism in historical perspective. Research topics being pursued by postgraduate research students include the Islamic dimension of religion and multiculturalism in Australia; the role of the media in influencing American foreign policy in relation to intervention in Darfur; the United Nations, corporate social responsibility and climate change; women’s empowerment in peacebuilding in Peru and East Timor; the role of shame and humiliation in international relations; the United Nations and peacekeeping in Burundi; the roots of conflict and peacebuilding in Liberia; the role of social, cultural, historical and political factors in determining acceptance of the proposal for a United Nations Emergency Peace Service; political justice and self-determination in West Papua; the ‘spiritual revolution’ and its relationship to nonviolent conflict transformation; and the role of conversational processes in contexts where violence is used as a response to conflict.
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Keywords
human rights, peacekeeping, conflict resolution, reconciliation, United Nations, racism, multiculturalism, political justice, self-determination, peace journalism, globalisation, corporate responsibility, policing, terrorism.
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 480