Dr Wendy Lambourne

BSc(Hons) (UMelb), GradDip(Information Services) (RMIT), MA(International Relations) (ANU), GradDip in International Law (ANU), PhD (USyd)

Academic coordinator
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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 was 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 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 coordinated 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.

Wendy’s research focuses on analysing and evaluating transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence, including post-genocide. Regional focus on Africa and Asia/Pacific, including field research conducted in Cambodia, East Timor, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Developing theory and applying to practice in the context of peacebuilding interventions, specifically in terms of:

1. the participation of civil society,
2. the role of the United Nations, and
3. the significance of cross-cultural understanding and mutual accommodation between traditional, indigenous approaches and Western philosophies and systems of justice.

Find out more about Wendy's research.

Wendy Lambourne (forthcoming), “Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding After Mass Violence”, International Journal of Transitional Justice

Wendy Lambourne (forthcoming), “Justice After Genocide: The Rwandan Experiment with Gacaca Community Justice”, in refereed proceedings from the conference “Social Justice and Human Rights in the Era of Globalisation: Between Rhetoric and Reality”, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 21-23 August 2006

Wendy Lambourne (forthcoming), “Towards Sustainable Peace in Sierra Leone: Civil Society and the Peacebuilding Commission”, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development

Wendy Lambourne (2007), “Australia’s New Peace and Security Agenda”, PeaceWrites, Issue No. 2, September 2007, pp. 3-5.

Wendy Lambourne (2007), “Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding” in United Nations Association of Australia, Australia and the United Nations, Canberra: UNAA, pp. 27-32.

Wendy Lambourne (2006), “Justice in the Aftermath of Mass Crimes: International Law and Peacebuilding” in Ustinia Dolgopol & Judith Gardam (eds), The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 261-279.

See Wendy's publications since 2001.

Teaching

• Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies
• Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation
• United Nations and International Conflict Resolution
• Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
• Religion, War and Peace
• Peace of Mind: The Psychology of Peace

Supervision

• Transitional justice
• Reconciliation
• Peacebuilding after mass violence, including post-genocide

• International Peace Research Association (2006-2008: Co-Convenor of Reconciliation Commission)
• International Studies Association (2003-2004: Executive Committee, Peace Studies Section)