R2P Research in the Griffith Asia Institute
The research capacity of the Centre is greatly enhanced by the activities of leading international security specialists at Griffith University's Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy. Professor Alex Bellamy, the Centre's founder and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia who now holds a Research Chair in the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, continues to support APR2P as one of our Professorial Fellows and a member of our management Board and through publishing high quality books, articles, and policy papers on R2P. Recent books include Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities (Polity, 2009) and Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect (Routledge, 2011). In 2011, he wrote a Policy Analysis Brief for the Stanley Foundation on the Prevention of Mass Atrocities. He is currently completing an Australian Research Council funded project with Dr. Davies and Stephen Mcloughlin and writing a book with them entitled Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Early Warnings and Opportunities (due 2012) and a single authored book entitled Massacres and Morality: Mass Killing in an Age of Civilian Immunity (completed in 2011, due for publication in 2012).
Dr Sara Davies is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Institute. She is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, and holds several research grants on preventing mass atrocities and global health governance. One grant explores early warning indicators for prevention of mass atrocities and is held with Professor Bellamy (see above). The second grant explores the emerging infectious disease strategy between WHO and East Asian states. Dr Davies fellowship was awarded for this grant and it builds upon her work in Global Politics of Health (Cambridge: Polity, 2010). She is currently finalising a manuscript based on research from this grant exploring disease surveillance networks in Asia. Dr Davies, with Professor Bellamy and Dr Glanville, co-edits the journal Global Responsibility to Protect and the book series Global Responsibility to Protect (Routledge) with Professor Bellamy and Professor Monica Serano.
Dr Luke Glanville is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute and co-editor of the journal Global Responsibility to Protect. His research is focused on the historical roots of the responsibility to protect. He has recently published articles on the idea of sovereign accountability found in the Ancient Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven (in Millennium) and on the antecedents of 'sovereignty as responsibility' from Bodin and Hobbes onwards (in European Journal of International Relations).
This expertise at the Griffith Asia Institute is further augmented by research in Griffith's Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, particularly the work of Professor Charles Sampford who is the Centre's Director. He has written widely on law and security, including several projects with Professor Ramesh Thakur at the Australia National University. Professor Sampford is in receipt of an R2P Fund award for research on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. An edited book out of this project, coordinated by Sampford and Thakur, will be published by UNU Press in 2011.
