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Responsibility to Protect:

Alignment with Women, Peace and Security

Human Protection Hub Workshop

Griffith Asia Institute Griffith University

25 October 2012, Hotel Realm, Canberra

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Table of Contents

Host …………………………………………………………………… 3

Griffith Asia Institute …………………………………………………………………… 4

Workshop Agenda …………………………………………………………………… 5

Workshop Outline …………………………………………………………………… 6

Agenda ………………………………………………………………..… 7

Participants …………………………………..……………………………… 9

Participants Biographies ………………………………………………………………… 11

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Host

“Human protection is a subset of the more encompassing concept of human security. The latter reminds us that the security of “we the peoples” matters every bit as much as the security of states. Human protection addresses more immediate threats to the survival of individuals and groups. The task of human protection is neither simple nor easy. We don't always succeed. But we must keep trying to make a difference. That is our individual and collective responsibility.” Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Cyril Foster Lecture, 2011 The Human Protection Hub (HPH) is a research and policy unit situated in the Griffith Asia Institute. The Hub aims to provide governments, international organizations, civil society groups and the research community with new knowledge to inform policy concerning the prevention of human protection crises and protection of vulnerable populations. This includes human protection in the face of humanitarian emergencies, including man-made and natural disasters. Our current projects have a number of partners including the United Nations Joint Office of the Special Advisers to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect, the International Peace Institute (IPI), the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (UQ), the Stanley Foundation and AusAID. See our projects page (http://www.griffith.edu.au/business-government/griffith-asia-institute/research/human-protection-hub/hph-projects) for details on individual research projects. Read and sign up to follow our blog, Protection Gateway, at http://www.protectiongateway.com. Please do not hesitate to contact HPH Director, Professor Alex Bellamy (a.bellamy@griffith.edu.au) if you have any questions about research and partnership with the Hub.

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Griffith Asia Institute

From its inception, Griffith University has been focussed on, and engaged with, Asia. In the spirit of this tradition, and with a view to further deepening Griffith’s regional engagement in the twenty-first century, Griffith Asia Institute’s (GAI) mission is to produce innovative, interdisciplinary research on key developments in the politics, security, economies, and societies of the Asia-Pacific.

By promoting knowledge of Australia’s changing region and its importance to our future, GAI seeks to inform and foster policy-relevant academic scholarship, public awareness, and considered, responsive policy making. GAI will continue to develop as a national research resource that encapsulates Australia’s need for forward-looking debate about the nature of its present and future engagement in Asia. More specifically, GAI’s purpose is to:

Achieve a reputation as the research centre of first choice for researchers, students, partnering academic institutions, government, business and industry, and the media on issues of enduring importance to Australia’s regional future.

Achieve a reputation for international and national research excellence in the areas of scope relating to GAI and become the pre-eminent university research centre in its defined areas of expertise.

Generate a high profile within Australia and internationally for the Asia-related research strengths of Griffith University, particularly in relation to Asian politics, security and development, a defined Area of Strategic Initiative.

Promote the study of Asia in general and generate a focus for Asia-related research training across the University.

Build links with international centres of Asia research excellence.

Provide a platform for dialogue with government and industry. http://www.griffith.edu.au/business-commerce/asiainstitute

Overview

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Workshop Agenda Depending on their context, widespread or systematic sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) can be considered an act of genocide, a war crime, or a crime against humanity, all of which are covered by the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle. As such, the protection of those at risk of SGBV is both a part of the women, peace and security (WPS) protection agenda, and a fundamental responsibility for all states as part of their commitment to R2P. However, in the academic literature there remain a variety of different views concerning the merits and utility of aligning WPS with R2P (see Global Responsibility to Protect, Special Issue on Responsibility to Protect and Gender, 4(2) 2012). In particular, views differ on whether developing a coordinated strategy for implementing R2P and WPS would advance action in the UN system, including the Security Council, to tackle widespread or systematic SGBV. In practice, the relationship between R2P and WPS has been pursued with caution. One explanation may be that progress in both agendas has been hard won. Both have struggled for legitimacy among UN Member States, and both have had to manage an uneasy balance progressive reform and the preservation of consensus. This has prompted advocates of both WPS and R2P to adopt a tightly prescribed understanding of their agendas and refrain from aligning their agendas out of fear of eroding precious gains. One of the side effects of this has been the emergence of a gap between the two agendas and a degree of blindness towards their complementarity. This workshop will begin a dialogue aimed at addressing this problem.

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Workshop Outline This workshop, intended to facilitate dialogue between policy makers and academics concerned with WPS and R2P, aims to address three questions:

1. What can WPS and R2P contribute to the realization of the goals set out in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and 1820?

2. What is the practical relationship between R2P and WPS in protection, legal-judicial and humanitarian responses to SGBV crimes?

3. How are the two agendas best aligned, to ensure the most effective implementation

of both prevention?

The Australian government mapped out its plan for fulfilling its WPS responsibilities in the National Action Plan on WPS. The plan identifies a number of implementation targets to assist the government, the Asia Pacific region and the wider international community to prevent the drivers of conflict that facilitate widespread and systematic SGBV. At present, the National Action Plan has scattered references to a broad understanding of ‘responsibility’ – the responsibility to protect women’s rights, the command responsibility of defence, and the responsibility of caring that is particularly attributed to women.1

The purpose of this workshop is to critically examine the potential advantages and pitfalls associated with aligning R2P with WPS. In Australia’s case we see many areas where R2P could provide additional focus to the prevention, participation, protection, relief and recovery, and normative goals of the Australian National Action Plan. Such a focus may assist with promoting a deeper understanding of the factors that may prevent widespread and systematic SGBV, raising awareness of the importance of collecting and analysing data relevant to gender indicators, assisting states in fulfilling their responsibility to protect through engaging women in both conflict prevention and resolution as well as peacemaking and peacebuilding.

The workshop aims to stimulate critical reflection and dialogue about these issues and discussion about areas of potential future cooperation and practical outcomes in relation to the aligning of the R2P principle with WPS. Thank you, Workshop Convenors. Sara Davies, Senior Research Fellow, Human Protection Hub, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Eli Stamnes, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Security and Conflict Management, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Zim Nwokora, Research Fellow, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University Sarah Teitt, Outreach Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland

1 Australian Government (2012) National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012-2018,

Office for Women, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

(FAHCSIA): 3, 36, 37, 41. Available at: http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/women/pubs/govtint/action_plan_women_peace/Pages/default.aspx

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Agenda -

Thursday 25 October 2012 – High Courtyard, Hotel Realm

8:30am Registration and coffee on arrival 9:00am-9:15am Welcome and Introduction 9:15am-10:45am Session 1: Alignment of R2P with WPS and UNSCR 1325 Julie McKay, UN Women Australia Global best practice on implementing 1325: How Australia compares Mairi Steele, Office for Women, FaHCSIA Development, implementation and future of the Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and potential alignment with the R2P agenda Discussant: Laura Shepherd, University of New South Wales 10:45am-11:15am Morning Tea 11:15am-12:45pm Session 2: Relationship between R@P and WPS in International Policing and Military Missions Assistant Commissioner Mandy Newton International Deployment Group, Australian Federal Police Philippa Nicholson, Australian Civil-Military Centre Operationalising 1325 in situations of SGBV. Kate Lee Koo, Australian National University Opportunities and Challenges in Implementing Australia’s UNSCR1325 NAP

Discussant: Michael Bliss, International Organisations Branch, DFAT 12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch 1:45pm-3:15pm Session 3: Alignment of R2P with WPS in Humanitarian and Judicial Responses Carrie McDougall, International Law Section, DFAT Criminal prosecution of SGBV crimes as a means of prevention and deterrence Amy Sheridan, Australian Civil-Military Centre Protection of civilians and R2P Discussant: Stephanie Cousins, Oxfam Australia

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3:15pm-3:30pm Afternoon Tea 3:30pm-5:00pm Session 4: Early Prevention: The Primary Responsibility of the State and WPS Jacqui True, Monash University The Political Economy of Violence against Women and State Responsibility for Long-term Prevention of Violence Nicole George, University of Queensland “Beyond cultural constraint”: women, security and political empowerment in the Pacific Islands. Sara Davies, Zim Nwokora, Griffith University and Sarah Teitt, University of Qld When will it be ‘Never Again’ for Women? Sexual and Gender Based Violence, Early Warning and the Responsibility to Protect

Discussant: Melissa Curley, University of Queensland

7:00pm Dinner at High Courtyard South, Hotel Realm

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Participants Mr Michael Bliss Assistant Secretary, International Organisations Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ms Rosemary Cassidy Acting Senior Specialist, Gender Equality, Gender Equality Policy Section AusAID Email: Rosemary.Cassidy@ausaid.gov.au Ms Steph Cousins Humanitarian Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam Australia. Email: stephc@oxfam.org.au Dr Melissa Curley Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. Email: m.curley@uq.edu.au Dr Sara Davies Senior Research Fellow, Human Protection Hub, Griffith Asia Institute Griffith University. Email: sara.davies@griffith.edu.au Dr Nicole George Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. Email: n.george2@uq.edu.au Ms Lucy Hall PhD Candidate, Thesis: Gendered approach to Aligning R2P with IDP Protection, University of NSW. Email: lucybridget@gmail.com Ms Rachael Hart Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Section, AusAID Email: Rachael.Hart@ausaid.gov.au Ms Emily Hill Human Rights and Indigenous Issues Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Email: emily.hill@dfat.gov.au Ms Fiona Johnstone Policy officer, Gender Equality Policy Section, AusAID Email: Fiona.Johnstone@ausaid.gov.au Dr Katrina Lee Koo Senior Lecturer in International Relations, School of Politics and International Relations, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Email: Katrina.LeeKoo@anu.edu.au Dr Carrie McDougall Legal Specialist, International Law Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Email: carrie.mcdougall@dfat.gov.au

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Ms Julie McKay, Executive Director, UN Women Australia. Email: admin@unwomen.org.au Ms Eloise Molan BA (Hons). Monash University. Thesis: The Political Economy Sources of Women's Insecurity: A Comparative Analysis of State National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security. Email: enmol1@student.monash.edu AFP Assistant Commissioner Mandy Newton National Manger International Deployment Group, Australian Federal Police Ms Philippa Nicholson Humanitarian Manager, Australian Civil-Military Centre. Email: philippa.nicholson@acmc.gov.au Dr Zim Nwokora Research Fellow, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith Business School, Griffith University. Email: z.nwokora@griffith.edu.au Ms Barbara O’Dwyer National Coordinator, WILPF Australia. Email: bodwyer@tpg.com.au Dr Anna Oldmeadow Senior Analyst, Strategic Analysis Branch, Office of National Assessments Email: anna.oldmeadow@ona.gov.au Dr Laura Shepherd, Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, School of Social Sciences, University of NSW. Email: l.j.shepherd@unsw.edu.au Ms Amy Sheridan Protection of Civilians Officer, Australian Civil-Military Centre Email: amy.sheridan@acmc.gov.au Ms Mairi Steele Branch Manager of Women’s Branch, Australian Government Office for Women, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Email: women@fahcsia.gov.au Ms Sarah Teitt Deputy Director and Researcher on Prevention and Regional Diplomacy Programs Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland Email: s.teitt@uq.edu.au Dr Jacqui True Professor of Politics & International Relations, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Email: Jacqui.True@monash.edu

Ms Megan Watson Human Rights and Indigenous Issues Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Email: megan.watson@dfat.gov.au

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Presenters

Biographies

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Mr Michael Bliss Assistant Secretary International Organisations Branch Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Michael Bliss is Assistant Secretary, International Organisations Branch at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr Bliss has recently returned from Jakarta, where he served as Minister Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta from 2008-2012, heading the Embassy’s Political and Economic Branch. An international lawyer by training, Mr Bliss has served as Director of the Department’s International Law section (2004-2007) and Legal Adviser at the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (2001-2004). He has a Masters in International Law from Columbia University, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar and Bretzfelder Fellow in international law. He also has Bachelors degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and is admitted as a Legal Practitioner to the Supreme Court of NSW.

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Ms Steph Cousins

Humanitarian Advocacy Coordinator Oxfam Australia Email: stephc@oxfam.org.au

Steph Cousins is the Humanitarian Advocacy Lead at Oxfam Australia. Her work focuses on promoting the rights of people affected by crisis to assistance and protection and advocating for the prevention of conflict, mass atrocities, arms proliferation and armed violence. Steph has supported humanitarian advocacy efforts in the Pacific, Sri Lanka and Indonesia and has worked closely with former refugees and diaspora communities in Australia on a range of human rights issues. Steph managed Oxfam’s ‘Prevention is Better than the Cure’ project on the role of NGOs in operationalising R2P, made possible by the Australian R2P Fund. She is also the co-author of Oxfam’s submission in response to Australia’s consultation draft National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security. Steph is currently finalising a Masters of Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne, her research focusing primarily on international humanitarian law, international environmental law and gender justice issues.

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Dr Melissa Curley

Lecturer in International Relations Department of Political Science and International Studies University of Queensland

Email: m.curley@uq.edu.au

Melissa Curley is Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. Prior to this appointment she was a researcher in the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong from 1999-2005. Her research and teaching interests include non-traditional and human security, politics of democratization in Southeast Asia, and the East Asian security environment. She is currently working on a project on child sexual exploitation in Southeast Asia. Her journal articles have appeared in the Review of International Studies, The Australian Journal of International Affairs, and Asian Perspectives. Her most recent books are Security and Migration in Asia. The dynamics of securitisation, co-edited with Wong Siu-lun (Routledge 2008), and Advancing East Asian Regionalism, co-edited with Nick Thomas (Routledge: 2007).

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Dr Sara Davies

Senior Research Fellow Human Protection Hub Griffith Asia Institute Griffith University Email: sara.davies@griffith.edu.au

Sara Davies is a Senior Research Fellow, Human Protection Hub, Griffith Asia Institute and Centre of Governance and Public Policy. She is also Program Director of the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities projects funded by the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and AusAID. Sara’s research interests are in international refugee law, global health governance, and the responsibility to protect. Sara has published two sole authored books, Global Politics of Health (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010) and Legitimising Rejection: International Refugee Law in South East Asia (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), and four edited books. She has published in a number of articles in internationally recognised journals and is founding co-editor of a quarterly issued journal, Global Responsibility to Protect, with Alex J. Bellamy and Luke Glanville and the Protection Gateway blog.

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Dr Nicole George

Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies School of Political Science and International Studies University of Queensland. Email: n.george2@uq.edu.au

Nicole George is a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Political Science

and International Studies at the University of Queensland. She teaches courses in conflict

and nationalism, conflict and nonviolent change, and gender in international politics and

development. Her research interests are focused in the Pacific Islands and examine the

gendered impacts of conflict, violence and peacebuilding in this context. She has a book

forthcoming with ANU EPress on the roles Fiji’s women have played in politics, conflict

prevention and peacebuilding since decolonization in that country in 1970. She is also

writing a new book which documents, in comparative form, the roles women play in conflict

contexts across the Pacific Islands region. Recently she has begun a new research project

examining the relationship between women’s socio-political standing in the Melanesian

Pacific and their capacity to resist gendered forms of violence.

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Dr Katrina Lee Koo

Senior Lecturer in International Relations School of Politics and International Relations College of Arts and Social Sciences Australian National University Email: Katrina.LeeKoo@anu.edu.au

Katrina Lee-Koo is a senior lecturer in international relations at the Australian National University. She teaches and researches in the fields of security studies, international relations history and theory, and feminist international relations. Her main areas of research concern the gendered politics of armed conflict. She has just begun a three-year Australian Research Council funded project entitled Gender After Conflict which examines the gendered politics of post-conflict zones and the international community’s work regarding these politics. She is under contract with Praeger Press to publish The Gendered Politics of Armed Conflict and the Search for Peace (available in 2014) and is the co-author of the forth-coming Children Under Siege: Children, Agency and Global Conflict (under contract with Cambridge University Press). She is an Associate Editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and has recently published in Feminist Review, Third World Quarterly and Australian Feminist Law Journal. She undertakes training and consultancy with a number of Australian Government departments and international organizations, including DFAT, the UNDP, and the Australian Command and Staff College.

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Dr Carrie McDougall Legal Specialist International Law Section Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Email: carrie.mcdougall@dfat.gov.au Dr Carrie McDougall (BA (Hons.), LLB (Hons.), PhD) is a legal specialist in the International Law Section at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to joining DFAT, she held a number of positions at Melbourne Law School including a Research Fellowship at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, in which role she worked extensively on Protection of Civilians issues with the Australian Civil-Military Centre. She has also been employed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and has worked on numerous projects for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Having completed a Ph.D. on the subject of the crime of aggression, she was an external advisor to the Australian delegation to the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression from 2006 to 2009, before attending the Review Conference in 2010 as an independent expert. Her book, The Crime of Aggression under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court will be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2013.

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Ms Julie McKay

Executive Director UN Women Australia. Email: admin@unwomen.org.au

Julie McKay has been the Executive Director of UN Women Australia (formerly UNIFEM Australia) since March 2007. With experience in both the corporate and NGO sectors Julie actively works to support strong partnerships between the community, the private sector and government. Julie was the Australian Institute of Management’s Young Manager of the Year in 2010 and was named Telstra Young Business Woman of the year (ACT) in 2011. Julie sits on the Board of the UN Association of Australia, the Steering Committee of the Australian Institute of Management ACT and the Royal Australian Navy’s Success Implementation Committee. In 2012, Julie was also appointed to the Defence Force Gender Equality Advisory Board. Adding to her experience, Julie has recently completed her Executive MBA at the University of Sydney, with a Scholarship for Excellence in NGO Leadership. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from ANU and Bachelor’s degrees in Business Management and International Relations. Julie was recently admitted as a Vincent Fairfax Fellow in Ethical Leadership at Melbourne Business School.

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Ms Mandy Newton

AFP Assistant Commissioner National Manger IDG Australian Federal Police

Assistant Commissioner Newton was appointed as National Manager International Deployment Group on 1 April 2012 and is responsible for the management of Australian and Pacific Island police deployed overseas on peacekeeping and capacity development operations for both the AFP and the United Nations.

Her prior roles include the National Manager Operations Support responsible for the AFP Operations Coordination Centre, coordinating the AFP’s 24 hour operational activities and response, Government Relations incorporating a legislative program, ministerial support and information access, and Corporate Communications including media and marketing.

Between 2008-2010, Assistant Commissioner Newton was the National Manager for the Economic and Special Operations portfolio responsible for addressing economic (money laundering, criminal tax offences, identity crime, counterfeit currency, fraud against the Commonwealth etc) and special operations (war crimes, corruption and bribery of foreign officials, intellectual property, environmental crime, family law) crime types in both Australia and overseas. She was previously the AFP’s National Manager Aviation for over three years responsible for Protective Security, Counter Terrorism First Response, Investigations and the implementation of a Unified Policing Model.

From 2002 to 2004 she was the Deputy Chief Police Officer in ACT Policing after returning to the AFP in February 2002. She also has senior executive experience working as an Assistant Commissioner at the Australian Taxation Office and as a member of the executive team at ACTEW Corporation, Canberra’s utility company initially as General Manager Human Resources.

Assistant Commissioner Newton’s previous experience in the AFP includes being the Superintendent in charge of recruitment, deployment, promotions and equity and diversity. She also worked in a number of community policing and investigation roles in the ACT and taught recruit, detective and management programs at the AFP police college.

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Ms Philippa Nicholson Humanitarian Manager Australian Civil-Military Centre. Email: philippa.nicholson@acmc.gov.au Philippa Nicholson is the Humanitarian Manager for the Australian Civil Military Centre. Her role is to assist the development of Australia’s civil-military capabilities to prevent, prepare for and respond more effectively to conflicts and disasters overseas. She is responsible for the Centre’s implementation of actions towards Australia’s National Action Plan mandated under UNSCR1325. Philippa has worked in Africa (Sudan, Kenya and Burundi) and Asia (Burma) with the Australian Red Cross and International Committee of the Red Cross in conflict and post-conflict environments as a health and gender expert and program manager. Her work with UNICEF as a health advisor also took her to Georgia during the 2008 crisis. She has advised the Victorian State Government in regards to refugee health needs, with a particular expertise in gender considerations. Philippa’s health experience in the Asia Pacific region includes managing the Vision 2020 Australia Consortium of Australian NGO’s with programs in Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vietnam and Cambodia. Philippa is a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor of Health Science and a Master of Public Health.

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Dr Zim Nwokora

Research Fellow Centre for Governance and Public Policy Griffith Business School Griffith University Email: z.nwokora@griffith.edu.au

Dr Zim Nwokora is a post-doctoral research fellow in political science at Griffith University, a position that he has held since February 2010. Prior to that he was a doctoral student at Oxford University. His research methods training includes courses on statistical analysis and game theoretic modelling. His research experience is mainly in American Politics and Comparative Politics, especially relating to party politics. His published work in this area includes ‘The Presidential Leadership Dilemma’ (SUNY Press, forthcoming), a volume co-edited with Lara M. Brown and Julia R. Azari that examines how American presidents are stretched between the demands of their party and the national interest. He is also involved in research examining the causes of gender-based atrocities in wartime situations, with the aim of devising a framework for predicting the circumstances when such atrocities are likely.

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Ms Laura Shepherd

Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in International Relations School of Social Sciences University of NSW. Email: l.j.shepherd@unsw.edu.au

Laura Shepherd is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She works at the intersection of gendered global politics, critical approaches to security and International Relations theory. Laura is the editor of Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations (London: Routledge, 2010) and the author of Gender, Violence and Security: Discourse as Practice (London: Zed, 2008), as well as many scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, including International Studies Quarterly, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Review of International Studies and Journal of Gender Studies.

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Ms Amy Sheridan Protection of Civilians Officer Australian Civil-Military Centre Email: amy.sheridan@acmc.gov.au

Amy joined the Centre in May 2011 as a secondee from the Attorney-General's Department. Amy's role is to work to promote a shared understanding of civil-military best-practice in post-conflict environments, including mechanisms to enhance the protection of civilians. In 2005 Amy completed her Bachelor of International Studies majoring in Politics and International Relations from the University of New South Wales. In 2006 she completed her honours thesis on the military relationship between Australia and the United States post September 11. Amy has recently completed a Diploma in Education from the University of Canberra. Amy moved to Canberra in 2007 to complete the Attorney-General's Graduate Program. Since that time, she has held positions in a number of legal policy areas including Human Rights Branch, National Law Enforcement and International Family Law.

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Ms Mairi Steele

Branch Manager – Women’s Branch Australian Government Office for Women Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Email: women@fahcsia.gov.au

Ms Steele has been the Branch Manager of the Women’s Branch in the Australian Government Office for Women, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FAHCSIA) since April 2011. She has a BA Joint Honours in Industrial Relations and Administration from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Previously she worked as Acting Director of Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency and as Senior Policy Advisor. She has also worked as Director for Workplace Arrangements and Flexibility Section for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations with various periods acting Assistant Secretary, Strategic Policy Branch.

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Ms Sarah Teitt Deputy Director and Researcher on Prevention and Regional Diplomacy Programs Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect University of Queensland Email: s.teitt@uq.edu.au

Sarah Teitt is Deputy Director and Researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, where she is responsible for advancing research and building partnerships aimed at the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities in the Asia Pacific. In this role, Sarah has helped facilitate the establishment of cross-sector national programmes in the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand to raise awareness among government officials, academics and civil society representatives on sovereignty as responsibility, R2P and the causes and prevention of mass atrocities. Sarah's research interests centre on China's multilateral diplomacy in humanitarian crises experiencing or at risk of genocide and mass atrocities, and the link between the protection and promotion of women's rights and the prevention of mass atrocities.

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Dr Jacqui True

Dr Jacqui True Professor of Politics & International Relations School of Political and Social Inquiry Monash University Email: Jacqui.True@monash.edu

Dr. Jacqui True is professor of politics and international relations and associate dean for research at Monash University, Melbourne. Her research interests include feminist methodologies and international relations theory, women's participation in peace and security, gender norms and global governance, and structural approaches to preventing violence against women. She is author of a new book, The Political Economy of Violence Against Women, Oxford University Press, New York, 2012.

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Publication of Workshop Proceedings

We have received an Agreement to Publish from Brill Martinus Nihoff Publishers for

publication of proceedings from today’s workshop.

The book will be titled:

The Responsibility to Protect: A Principle for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

We sincerely welcome chapter contributions from 6,000-8.000 words. We are able to

consider pieces intended for publication in a journal (kindly talk to Sara about this:

sara.davies@griffith.edu.au). Submission date is February 2013.

Please contact Sara Davies for Author Instructions on chapter format.

Our publisher:

Founded in 1683, Brill Martinus Nijhoff is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong

international focus. The company’s head office is in Leiden, (The Netherlands) with a branch

office in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social

Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences.

http://www.brill.com/about

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Global Responsibility to Protect

Edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Griffith University, Sara E. Davies, Griffith University, and Luke

Glanville, Griffith University

Global Responsibility to Protect is the premier journal for the study and practice of the

responsibility to protect (R2P). This journal seeks to publish the best and latest research on

the R2P principle, its development as a new norm in global politics, its operationalization

through the work of governments, international and regional organizations and NGOs, and

finally, its relationship and applicability to past and present cases of genocide and mass

atrocities including the global response to those cases.

Global Responsibility to Protect promotes a universal understanding of R2P and efforts to

realize it, through encouraging critical debate and diversity of opinion, and to acquaint a

broad readership of scholars, practitioners, students and analysts with the principle and its

operationalization.

NOW AVAILABLE - Online submission: Articles for publication in Global Responsibility to

Protect must be submitted online through Editorial Manager, please go to

http://www.editorialmanager.com/gr2p/.

Special Issue:

GR2P Special Issue: Gender and R2P, Volume 4, Issue 2, Guest Edited by Dr Sara Davies and

Eli Stamnes.

Featuring articles by Jennifer Bond and Laurel Sherret, Inger Skjelsbaek, Eli Stamnes, John

Karlsrud and Randi Solhjell, Sahana Dharmapuri, Sara Davies and Sarah Teitt.

Forthcoming Special Issues:

The Responsibility to Prevent Genocide, Special Editor Alex Bellamy (Issue 1, 2013)

R2P and Humanitarian Action, Special Editor Hugo Slim (Issue 3, 2013)

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Thank you Thank you for the financial and administrative support of Griffith Asia Institute. In particular, Meegan Thorley, Natasha Vary and Kathy Bailey. Thank you to the Griffith Asia Institute Director Professor Andrew O’Neil. Many thanks for the support and assistance of the following: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland Australian Agency for International Development Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University Thank you participants, discussants and attendees at today’s workshop – we sincerely appreciate your support and generous time.