Researcher

My Expertise

I research and consult on topics at the intersection of International Relations, Critical Peace & Security, and International Development, with a focus on political order and violence, rebel governance, statebuilding and peacebuilding in deeply divided societies.

Areas of expertise:

  • Intervention
  • Political Order & Political Violence
  • State (Trans)Formation
  • 'Fragile' States
  • International Aid & Development
  • Statebuilding & Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Legitimacy in Statebuilding
  • Peacebuilding
  • Rebel Governance
  • Democratisation
  • Protracted Conflicts
  • Conflict Transformation
  • Informal & Non-State Security Actors
  • Peace Processes & Political Settlements
  • Insurgency & Counter-Insurgency (COIN)
  • Afghanistan, South-West & Central Asia, MENA countries

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

International relations, Peace studies, Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding, Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific, Political science, Political economy and social change

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Biography

I am Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, and Program Convenor of the Master of International Relations (MAIR) at UNSW. I research topics in critical peace/security studies including, political order and violence, international intervention, war-to-peace transition, rebel governance, and the political economy of statebuilding and peacebuilding in 'fragile' and deeply divided states and societies. My research has been...view more