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	Academic Position: Qualifications:              Room: Building: Telephone:       Fax: Email:	Lecturer in International Relations BA (Hons), PhD 523 General Purpose North 3 (#39A) +61 7 3365 2153 +61 7 3365 1388 jldurand@uq.edu.au

Teaching Interests:

Background: 

Before specialising in international relations, Dr Durand was a translator for a French Publisher and a teacher of French at TAFE in Queensland and at CAE in Victoria. His personal encounter with the effects of war has led him to write a doctoral dissertation on the subject of peace in an attempt to explain the fragility of peace as an institution. While undertaking his PhD he tutored in international relations and worked on a number of cognate research projects. Dr Durand has also worked as a lecturer in Humanities for the Queensland University of Technology. His research interest is in the communicabitlity of meaning in general (such as in the lecture hall), and in intercultural conversations in particular.

Selected Publications: 

1. Durand, Jean-Louis. 2001. 'Camp David Two: A Tragedy of Errors'. Paper presented at the Rethinking Humanitarianism seminar, Brisbane; published in Rethinking Humanitarianism, eds. B. Evans-Kent and R. Bleiker. St Lucia: UQ Press.
2. Durand, Jean-Louis. 2002. ‘Beyond the Mirror: Popular Art as a Healing Communicative Device’. Social Change in the 21st Century. Available at: http://www.socialchange.qut.edu.au/conferences/socialchange/docs/conf_papers2002/DurandJean-Louis.pdf

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