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	Hilary Charlesworth - Project Leader Professor & ARC Federation Fellow Hilary Charlesworth is working on the international legal framework for democracy-building. This research includes the definitions of democracy used in the international arena and the role of women in state-building enterprises. Further information \| View publications
	Jeremy Farrall Research Fellow Jeremy Farrall is working on the role of the United Nations in building democracy and justice after conflict. His research explores the UN's efforts to facilitate post-conflict peace agreements, as well as the interplay between UN peacekeeping operations and the rule of law. He is also researching the tension between the goals of reconciliation and justice in post-conflict environments (with Hilary Charlesworth). Further information \| View Publications
	Susan Harris-Rimmer Research Officer Susan Harris Rimmer is working on providing feminist perspectives in the field of transitional justice, international humanitarian law and refugee law. She is particularly interested in how non-combatants can achieve economic, social and cultural rights in a post-conflict state. She is also interested in how to conceive of refugees and displaced persons as key participants in transitional justice processes in their country of origin. Some of her current research questions are focused on the work of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, the 'responsibility to protect' doctrine and the idea of cosmopolitan democracy in the Asia-Pacific region (with Hilary Charlesworth). Further information
	Gabrielle Simm PhD Scholar Project: Critical approaches to UN peacekeeping Further information
	Adérito de Jesus Soares PhD Scholar Project: A Rights Based Approach to Development: A Comparative Study of Timor-Leste and Indonesia Further information
	Bu Wilson PhD Scholar Project: The development of the East Timorese Police Force 1999-2006 Further information
	Jodie O'Leary PhD Scholar Project: An examination of the effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms in Timor-Leste Further information
	Jo Ford PhD Scholar Project: The Foreign Private Sector in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Further information
	Laura Grenfell PhD Scholar Project: Transitional justice and the problems faced by weak transitional states in reconciling local norms with national norms influenced by the international sphere Further information
	Usha Natarajan PhD Scholar Project: What does the war in Iraq reveal about the nature of international law? Further information

Past

Brett Bowden
Visiting Fellow

With a background in political theory, Brett (with Hilary Charlesworth) interrogated and evaluated the various models of democracy promoted by the many international and inter-governmental institutions in post-conflict societies. The aim was to come up with some more inclusive alternatives that capture the essence of democracy as ‘decision-making by discussion’ as opposed to some of the more technical checklists of processes and institutions promoted and imposed by many agencies. Brett also investigated the ways in which civilisation and war have been conceptualised in political and legal thought. His research explores the nexus between war and civilisation in terms of endeavours to measure shades of civilisation or civility through the drawing of distinctions between different types of war as either ‘uncivilised’ or ‘civilised’.

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