Dr Anne Brown

  Academic Position: Senior Research Fellow
Qualifications:     
PhD, MA, BA (Hons) (Griffith)
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Research Expertise

  • Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Community Building and Conflict Resolution
  • Inter-cultural Dialogue

Background

Dr Brown has a strong focus on research and practice in the areas of dialogue processes, cross-cultural interchange and building political community, particularly across historically difficult boundaries and around issues of violence. She has held a number of ARC grants and is currently working on a number of externally funded projects. This work engages questions of what social inclusion and participation, human rights, justice and conflict transformation might mean in different cultural contexts, how they can be addressed across significant cultural and other boundaries, and how they might be configured in different social institutional arrangements. In this context, Anne leads the University of Queensland’s involvement in the Vanuatu Kastom Governance Partnership with the Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs (Vanuatu) and AusAID, as well as projects within East Timor and the Solomon Islands. She has worked as an Australian diplomat and in conflict prevention and peace-building projects in Asia and the Pacific Island region and has been active in theoretical and policy related exchange on changing forms of state-building and peace-building.

Prior to joing the School, Dr Brown was Deputy Director at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) at the University of Queensland and currently is involved in training African Diplomats through Uni-Quest and the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at UQ.

Projects

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Forthcoming, ‘Entangled Worlds: Villages and Political Community in Timor Leste’, Local-Global: Identity, Security, Community, Vol.9.
  • 2009, ‘Building peace and political community in hybrid political orders’, in: International Peacekeeping, 16(5):599-615 (with Volker Boege, Kevin Clements and Anna Nolan).
  • 2009, Undressing the Emperor: a Reply to Our Discusssants, in: Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 8, pp. 87-93. Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2009 (with Volker Boege, Kevin Clements and Anna Nolan).
  • 2009, ‘On Hybrid Political Orders and Emerging States’, in Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 8, pp.15-35. Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, (with Volker Boege, Kevin Clements and Anna Nolan).
  • 2009, ‘Security, development and the nation-building agenda – East Timor’, in: Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2009, pp141-164.
  • 2009, ‘Peace-building and political hybridity in East Timor’, in Peace Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2009 (with Alex Gusmao).
  • 2009, ‘Hybrid Political Orders, not fragile states’, in: Peace Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2009, pp. 13-21 (co-author with Volker Boege and Kevin Clements).
  • 2008, ‘States Emerging from Hybrid Political Orders: Pacific Experiences’, The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Occasional Papers Series, No. 11, September 2008 (co-author with Volker Boege, Kevin Clements and Anna Nolan).
  • 2007, ‘Peaceful Community Development in Vanuatu’, Peacebuilding and Development, Vol. 3, No.3. 2007, pp. 77-81 (co-author with Peter Westoby).
  • 2007, ‘State Building Reconsidered: The Role of Hybridity in the Formation of Political Order’, in: Political Science, Vol. 59, No. 1, June 2007, pp. 45-56 (co-author with Kevin Clements, Volker Boege, Wendy Foley and Anna Nolan).
  • 2005, ‘Development and Security in the Pacific Island Region’, International Peace Academy Policy Paper, IPA e-journal, October
Books
  • 2007, Security and Development in the Pacific Islands: Social Resilience in Emerging States (editor), Lynne Rienner, Boulder.
  • 2009, 2002 Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: the Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics, Manchester University Press, Conflict Resolution Series, Manchester.

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