Dr Phil Orchard

Academic Position:
 Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies
and International Relations
Administrative Positions: - Coordinator - Postgraduate International Studies Research Reports
- Library Liaison Officer
Qualifications: PhD, MA, BA
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Research Expertise

  • International Relations Theory
  • International Security (non-traditional security discourse)
  • International Organisations
  • Forced Migration
  • Humanitarianism
  • Peacekeeping

Teaching Interests

POLS6301 Honours Research Methods
POLS2222 Human Security in Global Politics
POLS3203 Great Issues of International Relations

Background

Phil Orchard's main research interests focus on how cooperation emerges and evolves in international society among states and other actors. He is particular concerned with how states cooperate over time to deal with differing forms of forced migration, including refugees and internally displaced persons.
 
Phil's doctoral dissertation examined the origins and evolution of the international refugee regime since the 17th Century. Forthcoming publications focus on the historical role of international organizations in protecting refugees and on the role of soft law in protecting internally displaced persons, while his next major project examines the propensity of states to displace their own populations and how to better tailor the international response.
 
Phil has served as a Canadian Department of National Defence Security and Defence Forum Post-Doctoral Fellow, He has also been a Canadian Consortium on Human Security Human Security Fellow and held a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship. He has previously worked as the Assistant to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons, and as a research assistant with the Brookings Institution- City University of New York Project on Internal Displacement. 

Projects and Linkages

Phil Orchard, along with Dr. Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), was awarded an ISA Venture Grant to organise a pre-ISA workshop on ‘the normative institutionalization-implementation gap’  in Montreal in March 2011. The workshop’s starting point is that International Relations literature on institutionalization tends to look at variation in how international norms get adopted by states, and to assume the story of norm dissemination ends there.  This workshop will examine the ‘normative institutionalisation-implementation gap’ across a range of issue-areas and norms including refugees, IDPs, tobacco control, climate change, torture, R2P, and peacekeeping, in order to identify the causal mechanisms that explain variation in domestic implementation in the context of similar levels of international institutionalization.
 
Further information is available here: http://www.isanet.org/workshop/2010/10/the-normative-institutionalization-implementation-gap.html

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

  • Orchard, Phil. “Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: Soft Law as a Norm-Generating Mechanism.” Review of International Studies, 36 (2) (April 2010).
  • Orchard, Phil. “Regime-Induced Displacement and Decision-Making within the United Nations Security Council: The Cases of Northern Iraq, Kosovo, and Darfur.” Global Responsibility to Protect Journal 2 (1-2) 2010. 101-126.
  • Orchard, Phil. (in press) “The Perils of Humanitarianism: Refugee and IDP Protection in Situations of Regime-Induced Displacement” Refugee Studies Quarterly.
  • Orchard, Phil. (in press) “Regime-Induced Displacement and Decision-Making within the United Nations Security Council: The Cases of Northern Iraq, Kosovo, and Darfur.” In Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville (eds) Protecting the Displaced: Deepening the Responsibility to Protect (Martinus Nijhoff)
  • World Bank and SFU Human Security Centre (2008) Miniatlas of Human Security. World Bank Publications. [Contributor]
  • Phil Orchard. (2007) “The Urban Displaced: Refugees and IDPs in Cities.” In Humansecurity-cities.org Human Security in an Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Perspectives.
  • Phil Orchard. (2005) “The Plight of the Displaced.” In Human Security Centre, UBC Human Security Report 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming Publications

  • Orchard, Phil. Normative Change in the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime, 1921-1967" has been prepared for Alexander Betts and Anna Schmidt Regimes as Practice: International Institutions and Refugee Protection (Martinus Nijhoff)

Works in Progress

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