People

Severine Autessere

Severine Autesserre is Professor of Political Science, specialising in international relations and African studies, at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. She works on civil wars, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and humanitarian aid.

Alex Bellamy

Alex Bellamy is Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, and non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, New York.

Leonard Blazeby

Leonard Blazeby is Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) Mission in Australia. He works with government, the Australian Defence Force, think tanks, academics and the media to foster a greater understanding of ICRC and its global operations, and to promote international humanitarian law.

John Braithwaite

John Braithwaite is Distinguished Professor and Founder of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), The Australian National University. He is best known for his work on restorative justice and response regulation, and responsive peacebuilding and peacekeeping.

Imelda Deinla

Imelda Deinla is Fellow and Project Director of the Philippines Project, a policy engaged research project on Philippine economy and politics between The Australian National University and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her main research focus is the relationship between politics and law.

Gareth Evans

Gareth Evans AC QC is Chancellor and an Honorary Professorial Fellow of The Australian National University. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments in Australia from 1983 to 1996, including as Foreign Minister (1988-96), and from 2000 to 2009 was President and CEO of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. He co-chaired the Canada-sponsored International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01), which initiated the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ concept, and the Australia-Japan sponsored International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (2008-10), and currently co-chairs the International Advisory Board of the New York-based Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. He has written or edited 12 books, including The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (2009).

Charles Hunt

Charles Hunt is Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, and honorary Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the University of Queensland. His research focuses on the relationship between R2P and peace operations, including specifically the protection of civilians and peacebuilding programs including security and the justice sector reform.

Patrick Lawless

Patrick Lawless is head of the International Organisations Branch in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he has responsibility for a broad range of UN and Commonwealth issues.

Stephen McLoughlin

Stephen McLoughlin is Lecturer in International Relations at Liverpool Hope University. His research interests include mass atrocity prevention, the role of the UN in conceptualising and carrying out prevention, the causes of genocide and mass atrocities, and R2P.

Martin Mennecke

Martin Mennecke is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Southern Denmark, and academic advisor to the Danish Focal Point for R2P at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His research focuses on the Arctic, transnational justice, R2P and the use of force under international law.

Noel Morada

Noel Morada is Director, Regional Diplomacy and Capacity Building, at the University of Queensland. Apart from his research and advocacy on R2P, he is also involved in regional security research and dialogue specifically dealing with terrorism, maritime security, and non-traditional security issues in Southeast Asia.

Brad Orchard

Brad Orchard is Colonel in the Australian Army, Director of the National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security, and is responsible, on behalf of the Chief of the Defence Force, for overseeing all aspects of Defence’s implementation of the National Action Plan.

Lisa Sharland

Lisa Sharland is Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and non-resident Fellow at the Stimson Center, Washington, DC. Her research focuses on Australia’s engagement in UN peacekeeping operations, UN peace operations reform, women in defence and security, and Australia‒Africa engagement.

Ivan Šimonović

Ivan Šimonović is Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect to the UN Secretary-General. Prior to his appointment in October 2016, Mr. Šimonović was Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights and Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York. Before joining the United Nations in 2010, Mr. Šimonović held the position of Minister for Justice of Croatia. He was previously Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, where he served as President of the Economic and Social Council. Mr. Šimonović was a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb, where he was Head of the Legal Theory Department, Vice-Dean and Vice-Rector for international cooperation. Serving in an expert capacity, he has been a member of the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) and the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, as well as Agent of the Republic of Croatia before the United Nations International Court of Justice. He also served as the President of the United Nations Association (Croatia).

Christoph Sperfeldt

Christoph Sperfeldt is a doctoral candidate in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), The Australian National University. He has also been Deputy Director at the Asian International Justice Initiative, a joint program of the East-West Center and the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University, where he has supported human rights and rule of law capacity-building efforts in Southeast Asia.

Scott Straus

Scott Straus is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Scott specialises in the study of genocide, political violence, human rights, and African politics.

Ekkehard Strauss

Ekkehard Strauss is Adjunct Professor at Griffith University. From 2004 to 2007 he supported the establishment of the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. He has published widely on the United Nations, the prevention of mass atrocities, the protection of minorities, and human rights.