CPACS Staff
CPACS staff includes paid staff as well as volunteer CPACS members. In addition, the Centre employs a number of lecturers in its postgraduate Peace and Conflict Studies program. Vacancies at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies are advertised on the University of Sydney website.
President
Director
Lecturer & Coordinator
Administration
Librarian
Teaching Staff and Honorary Associates
Associate Professor Dr Jake Lynch
Jake Lynch has spent the past decade developing and campaigning for Peace Journalism – and practising it, as an experienced international reporter in television and newspapers. He was a presenter (anchor) for BBC World News; the Sydney Correspondent for the London Independent newspaper, and a Political Correspondent for Sky News.
He covered conflicts in the Middle East, South East Europe and South East Asia, as well as many political and diplomatic gatherings of world leaders. He interviewed Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela and Kylie Minogue, among others!
Jake also led professional training workshops for editors and reporters in many countries, including the US, UK, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Armenia, Georgia and Norway.
His publications include Peace Journalism (Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK, 2005 – with Annabel McGoldrick), and refereed chapters in books including the Routledge Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies (Abingdon, 2007) and Democratising Global Media (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2005).
He has contributed scholarly articles to journals including the Global Media Journal and Conflict and Communication Online, as well as journalistic analysis and comment to many media including the Australian newspaper and BBC Online.
Latterly, Jake has been in the forefront of efforts to establish Peace Journalism as a new field of study in both Peace and Conflict Studies and Journalism and Communication. He is convener of the Peace Journalism commission of the International Peace Research Association.
His research interests include media responses to conflict, and especially the ‘war on terrorism’ and its media representation, as factors inflaming conflicts in many parts of the world, in particular South and South East Asia.
phone: +61 2 9351 5440
fax: +61 2 9660 0862
email: jake.lynch@usyd.edu.au
Dr Ken Macnab, BA (Hons) (UNE) DPhil (Sussex), has recently retired from the Department of History, University of Sydney, where for 36 years he taught courses ranging from broad Modern European history, through Imperialism, Nationalism and Racism and English Class and Culture to the histories of Crime and Punishment, Deviance and Violence. He is particularly interested in the history of warfare and peacemaking, and interpersonal conflict (such as duelling). He also concentrates on the nature and history of terrorism, and the implications of the post-September 11 ‘War on Terrorism.
Ken created the Centre's only undergraduate Peace and Conflict Studies unit, 'History and Politics of War and Peace', which examines the history of the causes of war and the processes and outcomes of peacemaking. He also teaches the 'Cultures of Violence' unit and guest lectures various other units, including 'Religion, War and Peace'.
phone: +61 2 9036 9284
fax: +61 2 9660 0862
email:
Dr Wendy Lambourne BSc (Hons)
Dr Wendy Lambourne is a Lecturer and Academic Coordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, Australia. In January 2007 she is a Visiting Researcher with the International Center for Transitional Justice in Cape Town, South Africa. For three months in 2006 she was a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Wendy worked previously with the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University and was a Visiting Scholar for one year with the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University in the US. In 2003-2004 Wendy served on the Executive of the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and from 2006-2008 she is co-convenor of the Reconciliation Commission of the International Peace Research Association.
Wendy’s research is concerned with analysing and evaluating transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence. Her regional research focus is on Africa and Asia/Pacific and she has conducted field research in Cambodia, East Timor, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Her publications include chapters in Mohammed Abu-Nimer (ed.), Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence: Theory and Practice (Lexington Books, 2001) and Ustinia Dolgopol & Judith Gardam (eds), The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006). Wendy has also published articles on humanitarian intervention, United Nations reform, Australian foreign policy, gender and conflict, and the Australian reconciliation process. She is working on a book manuscript: “Healing the Gap between Self and Other: Transformative Justice, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding after Mass Violence”.
Wendy has been coordinator of the postgraduate program in peace and conflict studies at the University of Sydney since 2003. She teaches the core unit “Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies” and the electives “Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation”, “The United Nations and International Conflict Resolution”, “Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution” and “Peace of Mind: The Psychology of Peace”. Wendy has also previously taught the units “Human Rights, Peace and Justice” and “Religion, War and Peace”. In 2007 she will coordinate the new undergraduate unit “History and Politics of War and Peace” jointly with the History Department.
Wendy has an honours degree in psychology from the University of Melbourne, postgraduate degrees in international relations and international law from the Australian National University, and a PhD from the University of Sydney. She has also completed courses in conflict resolution, genocide studies, mediation, reconciliation, and training of trainers in peacebuilding and development.
phone: +61 2 9036 9286
fax: +61 2 9660 0862
email:
Leah Chan (Mon, Tue, Wed)
phone: +61 2 9351 7686
fax: +61 2 9660 0862
email: leah.chan@usyd.edu.au
Aletia Dundas (Thur, Fri)
phone: +61 2 9351 7686
fax: +61 2 9660 0862
email:
Ms Peggy Craddock began her career as a teacher librarian at Walgett in 1969. She has always been interested in, and a driving force behind, professional development for teacher librarians, in particular those located outside the metropolitan area or larger country centres. In addition to working as a teacher librarian at Matthew Pearce Primary School, she worked in the School Library Association of New South Wales, acting at one time or another as President, Secretary, Editor of ‘Teacher & Librarian’, and National Councillor. In 1991, the Department of School Education rewarded her with the highly esteemed 'Excellence in Teaching’ Award and in 1993 she received the John Hirst Award of the Australian School Library Association NSW. Ms Craddock retired in 1993. She has been on the CPACS Council since 1996 and became the CPACS librarian in 2000.
Professor Emeritus Stuart Rees, is Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation at the University of Sydney. He has been a social worker in Britain, in Canada, in the War on Poverty programs in the USA and with Save the Children in India and Sri Lanka. He has taught at leading universities in the UK (Aberdeen & Southampton), in Canada (Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier) and in the USA (University of California at Berkeley, University of Texas). His publications include over one hundred journal articles on topics such as evaluations of health and welfare services, the attributes of peace negotiations and humanitarianism in social policy. He is the author and co-author of ten books, including A Brutal Game (1986), Achieving Power (1991), Beyond the Market (1993), The Human Costs of Managerialism (1995), Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility (2000), Passion for Peace (2003) and Tell me the Truth About War (2004). Professor Rees' awards include a Simon Fellowship at the University of Manchester, a Humanities Fellowship at the City University of Hong Kong and the Award of Highest Honour for 'Contributions to World Peace' conferred in 1998 by Soka University, Japan. For four years he was an elected Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney and for six years a member of the NSW Reconciliation Committee. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to international relations.
phone: +61 2 9351 4763
fax: +61 2 9660 0862
email:
Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard has been an associate of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies for the past six years, is a consultant to the Conflict Resolution Network and an executive member of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism, Australia. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney and her research focuses on cultural difference and social justice. As a teacher and educational consultant in Australia and Japan, she developed curricula, advised on policy formulation and taught in prison schools and universities. At Sophia University, Japan, Lynda-ann taught international studies and more recently has conducted peace education workshops for the Japanese Association of Language Teachers (JALT). In 2002, she was invited to teach a proseminar on the intersection of gender and peace at the University of Innsbruck and is coordinator of the postgraduate course “Gender and the Development of Peace” at the University of Sydney. Awards include the inaugural King Hussein Scholarship for the Asia-Pacific Region for a paper entitled "Building A Culture of Peace through Tourism" (1999). Publications include six articles for domestic and international books and journals. She is also co-editor of Managing Creatively: Human Agendas for Changing Times (1996) and has collaborated on Human Rights Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue (2000), Indigenous People and the Law in Australia (1995) and Women, Male Violence and the Law (1994).
phone: +61 2 9351 3971
fax: +61 2 9660 0862
email:
Annabel McGoldrick, MA.
Annabel McGoldrick is a part-time lecturer at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, specialising in Peace Journalism, and the Psychology of Peace.
She is also an experienced professional journalist, currently reporting for World News Australia, on SBS Television. Recent credits include the Sunday program, on Channel Nine TV, with an exclusive filmed report about the activities of Australian mining companies in the southern Philippines; and the BBC’s prestigious Newsnight program.
Annabel has covered conflicts in Indonesia, Thailand and Burma, and produced the BBC documentary, Against the War, presented by Harold Pinter, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
Her publications include Peace Journalism (Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK, 2005 – with Jake Lynch), as well as chapters in several books and several scholarly papers. She edited and presented two educational video documentaries, News from the Holy Land (Hawthorn Press and Films for the Humanities, 2004) and Peace Journalism in the Philippines (2007).
Annabel presented and chaired Reporting the World, a series of high-profile, on-the-record discussions involving editors and senior reporters in London, on issues of representation and responsibility in the coverage of conflict. She has led professional training workshops for journalists and peace workers in many countries, including the US, UK, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Armenia and Norway.
Annabel is also a qualified psychotherapist. She works in private practice and has consulted on issues around journalism, conflict and trauma to organisations including the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma and the UN Population Fund.
Paul Clark’s research is focussed on understanding collective violence and whether this is in part a consequence of traumatic stress. His other related interests involve the theory and practice of counselling, psychotherapy, conflict resolution and relationship-building. He works with individuals, communities and organisations to change personal and collective ways of living and working in relationship with each other and with the built and natural environment.
Adjunct Professor Sev Ozdowski,has been an associate of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies since 2006 and is Director, Equity and Diversity at the University of Western Sydney and President of the National committee on Human Rights Education.
From 2000-2005, as the Australian Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner, he authored the ground-breaking National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention: “A last resort?” which ignited a national debate about Australia’s immigration detention policies and ultimately resulted in children being released from mandatory detention and a rethink of the government’s detention policies. As Disability Discrimination Commissioner he was behind the National Inquiry into Mental Health Services “Not for Service” report, which placed mental illness on the national agenda and conducted the strategic National Inquiry into Disability and Employment “WORKability”.
This Polish born Australian has an LLM and MA in Sociology from Poznan University, Poland and a PhD from the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. In 1984 Dr Ozdowski was awarded the Harkness Fellowship which took him to the Universities of Harvard, Georgetown and California to work on race relations, international human rights and public administration. Between 1980 and 1996 he worked within the Federal portfolios of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Attorney-General's and Foreign Affairs.
Dr Ozdowski's life-long commitment to multiculturalism, human rights and civil society has been officially recognised in a variety of different ways; by an Order of Australia Medal in 1995, the Chevalier of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 2000 and most recently by an honorary doctorate from Melbourne's RMIT University.
Erik Paul, BA (UMinnesota), PhD (UC Berkeley), was a full time academic at Macquarie University for many years where he taught in areas of political geography and economy, and Asian studies. Erik's research interest focuses on Australia's relations with the Asia-Pacific, and issues of global integration. His latest book is Little America: Australia, the 51st State published in 2006 by Pluto Press, London.
Erik is in the process of creating a new postgraduate unit of study, 'Peace and Conflict in South-East Asia', to commence in 2009.
Professor Johan Galtung
One of the founders of Peace and Conflict Studies, Professor Galtung also founded the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), and the Journal of Peace Research. He is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Peace Prize, and has held chairs in Peace Studies and Peace Research at universities in three continents. He originated many of the key concepts of the subject including structural violence and positive peace. His ideas have been instrumental in transforming conflicts around the world. He has published more than 1,000 articles covering a wide range of fields, including peaceful conflict transformation, deep culture, peace pedagogy, reconciliation, development, peace building and empowerment, global governance, direct structural and cultural peace/violence, peace journalism, and reflections on current events, and more than 100 books translated into dozens of languages.
Professor George Kent
Professor George Kent (Political Science, Hawai'i), is a leading authority on the Human Right to Food, who has consulted to the Right to Food Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. He has a long and distinguished publishing record in this subject:
The Political Economy of Hunger: the Silent Holocaust (New York: Praeger, 1984); Fish, Food, and Hunger: the Potential of Fisheries for Alleviating Malnutrition (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1987); The Politics of Children's Survival (New York: Macmillan/St Martin's, 1995); and Freedom from Want: the Human Right to Adequate Food (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005).
Professor Paul D. Scott
Paul D. Scott was born in 1950 in New York City. Majored in Chinese and Asian Studies at Seton Hall University, 1972. 1971, one year on a kibbutz in Israel. MA in comparative political analysis and international relations, NYU. 1975-77, residence in Taiwan. Intensive work in Chinese language; first university teaching position, national Taiwan University. 1977-81, Head of International Programs, Nagoya International School, Japan. From 1981 until 1983, residing in Charlottesville, Virginia, MA Chinese and Japanese History; PhD in history awarded in 1985. 1983-85 graduate student, The University of Tokyo. From 1985, professor in the Asian studies Program, Kansai Gaidai University. Also, Steering Committee member, The Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia. Advisor, the Zorig Foundation, Mongolia. Frequent research and speaking trips to Pakistan and Mongolia. Associate Editor, The Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai Gaidai University, Political Editor, Kansai Timeout, consultant, Kyoto Journal. Except for two years in residence in Virginia, Professsor Scott has lived in East Asia since 1975.
Fred Dubee
Fred Dubee is the Senior Officer of the UN Global Compact, an initiative of the previous Secretary General, Kofi Annan. Fred's long business career began in the automotive industry in 1968 and established him as an effective innovator in the areas of marketing, strategic planning, training and development, general management and cross-cultural team building.
Three decades unevenly distributed across North and South America, Europe and Asia, opened the doors to intensive learning as a team member on some fascinating projects including: leading the development and implementation of a large-scale, individual needs-based training approach in Brazil, leading to the creation of multi-stakeholder program to successfully develop, produce and market a Brazilian vehicle in North America, and participation in a successful broad partnership project to substantially eradicate cataract-caused blindness in China.
In the spring of 2000, Fred undertook an assignment to help in the preparation of the Global Compact launch and in October 2000, he joined the United Nations as Senior Officer, Global Compact.
