Publications
Publications
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Masoom Stanekzai, 2025, Islam, Inclusive Governance and the Quest for Peace: The Case of Afghanistan
Matilda Byrne, 2024, Autonomous Weapons Must be Controlled Urgently (An Issues Brief in Preparation for the UN Summit of the Future 2024).
John Langmore AM, Dr Tania Miletic and Dr David Richardson, 2024, Strengthening Australian Diplomacy (An Issues Brief in Preparation for the UN Summit of the Future 2024).
John Langmore AM and Ramesh Thakur, 2024, Transform or Die: the Case for Reforming the UN Security Council (An Issues Brief in Preparation for the UN Summit of the Future 2024).
Russell Rollason AM, Adrian Morrice, Simon Richards and Jacob Berah, 2024, Rising to the Challenge: how Australia can Help Transform the UN Peacebuilding Commission (An Issues Brief in Preparation for the UN Summit of the Future 2024).
Gem Romuld, Tilman Ruff AO and Melissa Parke, 2024, Luck Is Not a Strategy: It's Time to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons (An Issues Brief in Preparation for the UN Summit of the Future 2024).
Erika Feller AO FAIIA, 2024, Impunity, Accountability and Respect for Human Rights and the Rule of Law (An Issues Brief in Preparation for the UN Summit of the Future 2024). The Australia Peacebuilding Network, 2024, Peacebuilding in Australian Foreign Policy: a Summary of Views and Conclusions from the Australia Peacebuilding Network Roundtable.
John Langmore, Tania Miletic, Aran Martin, and Bob Breen, 2020, Security Through Sustainable Peace: Australian International Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding, Melbourne School of Government and School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
John Langmore, Tania Miletic, Aran Martin, and Nathan Shea, 2017, State Support for Peace Processes: A Multi-Country Review, Published by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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Htwe, Sophia (2026) 'Rakhine's Changing Political Order and the Future of Rohingya Citizenship' ANU Myanmar Research Centre, May 8 2026
Samad, O. & Wardak, A. 2026 'History and selective memory as weapons: How to responsibly contain the Afgha-Pakistan crisis' World Affairs 21c, February 11 2026
Samad, O. & Abid, M. 2026 'Rethinking 'Nationalism': Toward a shared Afghanistan vision through dialogues' World Affairs 21, January 29 2026
Samad, O., Raheen, M. & Kakar, R. 2025 'Afghanistan at the UN: Challenges meet a range of perspectives' World Affairs 21, 13 December 2025
Qayumi, K., Mashal, A., Rasikh, J. S., Surush, L. & Bin Shah, S. 2025 'Afghanistan at year's end: Select insights, assessments and recommendations moving forward' World Affairs 21c, edited by Omar Samad, 31 December 2025
Ibrahimi, Niamatullah; Saba, Arif and Taye Safiullah, ‘After 4 years of repressive Taliban rule, Afghans are suffering in silence. Is the world still watching?’, The Conversation, 14 August 2025.
Abid, Mujib, 2025, 'Afghan Exilic Writing Between Worlds (Part Two)', Border Criminologies (University of Oxford Faculty of Law Blogs).
Abid, Mujib, 2025, 'Sufism in Exile as Border Thinking (Part One)', Border Criminologies (University of Oxford Faculty of Law Blogs).
Abid, Mujib, and Samad, Omar, 2025, 'A MOSAIC Approach to Afghanistan: Controversy and Opportunity', Global Village Space.
Shortis, Emma, Mamouri, Ali, Parmeter, Ian, Westendorf, Jasmine-Kim, and Akbarzadeh, Shahram, 2025, 'Does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? We asked 5 experts', The Conversation.
Miletic, Tania, and Abid, Mujib, 2024, 'The Shrine of Remembrance Turns 90: Time to Mourn, not Glorify War, and to Seed Hope for the Living', Australian Outlook.
Langmore, John, 2024, 'Is the UN's Pact for the Future a Breakdown or a Breakthrough?', Pursuit.
Langmore, John, 2024, 'The Underfunding of Australian Diplomacy Continues', Australian Outlook.
Langmore, John, 2023, 'A Breakthrough for Justice and Peace', Pursuit.
Langmore, John 2022, 'Peacebuilding – It’s Time to End Australia’s Neglect', Australian Outlook. Miletic, Tania and Anouk Ride, 2022, 'Tensions are high between China and Australia over Solomon Islands, but it’s in everyone’s interests to simmer down', The Guardian.
Ride, Anouk and Tania Miletic, 2022, 'Stepping carefully amid conflict in the Pacific', Pursuit. Feller, Erika, 2022, 'Social Justice – How and for Whom?', Australian Outlook.
Barbora, Sanjay, 2022, 'AUKUS an unwelcome guest at the table of nuclear disarmament', Pearls and Irritations, 16 January 2022.
McDougall, Derek, 2022, An Authoritarian Turn in the United States: Implications for Australia? Australian Outlook (Australian Institute of International Affairs), 28 January 2022, An Authoritarian Turn in the United States: Implications for Australia? - AIIA - Australian Institute of International Affairs.
John Langmore and Tania Miletic, 2021, Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Inquiry into Funding for Public Research into Foreign Policy Issues, March.
Tania Miletic and John Langmore, 2020, ‘Australian Threadbare Diplomacy in Conflict,’ Australian Outlook, 26 November.
Miletic, Tania. 2018, Diaspora and Peacebuilding. Prepared for Diaspora Learning Network and Diaspora Action Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Miletic, Tania. 2018, Concept Note: Diaspora Peacebuilding and Reconciliation. Prepared for Diaspora Learning Network’s Seminar #1, DAA and DFAT.
Miletic, Tania. 2016, ‘Cambodia’s peace 25 years on’, Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 26 October.
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J Westendorf, ‘Crimes by Peacekeepers’ in Mallinder, Killean & Dempster (eds.) Edward Elgar Encyclopedia on Law and Peace, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025.
J Westendorf, ‘Masculinities and Institutional Blind Spots’ in J Westendorf and E Dolan-Evans (eds.) Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024.
A Naik** & J Westendorf, ‘Missing the Mark in Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ in J Westendorf and E Dolan-Evans* (eds.) Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024.
J Westendorf, ‘Rethinking PSEA: Reflections for Policy Makers’ in J Westendorf and E Dolan-Evans* (eds.) Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024.
J Westendorf & E Dolan-Evans*, ‘Two Decades of Dealing with Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid’ in Westendorf & Dolan-Evans* (eds.) Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid, Bristol UP, 2024.
McDougall, Derek 2021. International Relations, in Understanding Contemporary Asia Pacific, 2nd ed. Katherine Palmer Kaup, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 177–234.
McDougall, Derek 2021. Australia and the South Pacific Islands in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, in Humanitarianism in Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice, eds Alistair Cook and Lina Gong, Springer Briefs in Political Science, Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 41–45.
J Westendorf, ‘Women, Peace and Security and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping Operations,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Women Peace and Security, Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True (eds.), Oxford UP, 2019.
J Westendorf, ‘Violence and the contestation of the state after civil wars’ in M. Killingsworth and M. Sussex,Violence and the State. Manchester University Press, 2015.
J Langmore & S Fitzgerald 'Strengthening global economic governancen' in Macdonald, K., Marshall, S. & Pinto, S. (eds) New Visions for Market Governance: Crisis and Renewal. Routledge, New York. 2012
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Stanekzai, Masoom, 2025 'Making Peace Sustainable: The Struggle in Afghanistan' International Journal of Peace - Paxlumina 06(5) Pp. 8-11
Gatwiri, K., Krupka, Z. & Abid, M. 2025, 'Maintaining Standards or Gatekeeping the Academy? Reflections of Peer Review Experiences by Racially and Culturally Minoritized Scholars in Australia', Sociology Compass.
Ibrahimi, N., Abdelhameed, H. & Farasoo, A. 2025 'The Securitization of Civil Society in Conflict Zones: A Comparative Study of Iraq and Afghanistan', Journal of Global Security Studies, 10(3) September
Gegeo, D., Pendeverana, L., Paia, M. T., Maebuta, J., Ride, A. & Aqorau, T. 2025, 'Environmental Peacebuilding, Indigenous Epistemologies and Experience: Learning From Ruptures and Resilience in Solomon Islands', Asia Pacific Viewpoint 66(1) Pp. 130-141
Westendorf, J. & Jennings, K. M. 2025 ‘Elusive accountability: governing sexual exploitation and abuse under the grip of sexual violence in war,’ International Affairs, 101(2), March, Pp 603–622
Parkes, N. & Pruitt, Lesley. 2024, 'Youth Choreographing Peace: Dance in and Beyond the Refugee Camp', Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 20(1) Pp 38-53
Westendorf, J., Bian, J., Daigle, M., Jennings, K., Potts, A., Reddick, M., Massonneau, C., Gamhewage, G. & Mahmoud, M. E. 2024 ‘Sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in humanitarian contexts’ Bulletin of the World Health Organization 102(12) December Pp 888-894
Westendorf, J. 2024 ‘Troubling masculinities: Researching sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers’, Peacebuilding (Special Issue), 12(4), December, pp. 518-536.
Darwish, S. & Tuenpakdee, N. 2023, 'The State of Civic Peacebuilding in South and Southeast Asia' (Discussion Paper), The Asia Foundation.
Bergtora Sandvik, K. & J Westendorf, J. 2023 ‘Safeguarding Sex: The Technopolitics of Humanitarian Genomic Accountability,’ Global Studies Quarterly, 3(2), April ksad032
Westendorf, J. 2023 ‘A Problem of Rules: Sexual exploitation and UN legitimacy,’ International Studies Quarterly, 67(3) September, sqad046
Westendorf, J. 2023 ‘Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations,’ International Affairs, 99(4), July, Pp 1653–1672
Feller, E. & Langmore, J. 2022. 'Implications of the UN Common Agenda for Australia: Renewing Multilateralism', Australian Journal of International Affairs 77 (1), Pp 1–11.
McDougall, D. 2021. 'Australia’s humanitarian response to disasters in the South Pacific'. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 6(3) Pp. 202-220
McDougall, D. 2021. 'Concerns for the neighbours (and some others): international involvement in the conflicts in the Southern Philippines and West Papua' Small Wars and Insurgencies, 32(6) Pp. 977-1011
Chauvel, R. & McDougall, D. 2021, ‘Introduction: Maritime Southeast Asia’s encounter with Westphalianism’, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 32(6) Pp. 855-866
McDougall, D. 2021, 'The frontlines of peace: an insider's guide to changing the world' Book Review Peacebuilding 10(4) Pp. 506-507
Westendorf, J. & Strating, R. 2020 ‘Women in Australian international affairs’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 74(3), June, Pp. 213-227.
Strating, R. & Westendorf, J. 2020 ‘A critical analysis of Australian foreign, defence and strategic policy’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 74(3), June, Pp 208-212.
Westendorf, J. 2018 ‘Peace negotiations in the political marketplace: The implications of exclusion in the Sudan-South Sudan peace process’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 72(5) August, Pp. 433-454.
Westendorf, J. 2018 ‘Challenges of local ownership: Understanding the outcomes of the international community’s ‘light footprint’ approach to the Nepal peace process’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 12(2), June 2018, pp. 228 252.
Martin, A., Nathan S., & Langmore, J. 2017, ‘International mediation and Australian Foreign Policy: building institutional capacity to respond to overseas conflict’, Australian Journal of International Affairs 71 (1) Pp 88–104.
Westendorf, J. & Searle, L. 2017 ‘Sexual exploitation and abuse in peace operations: trends, policy responses, and future directions,’ International Affairs, 93(2), March, Pp. 365-387
Langmore, J. & Farrall, J. 2016, ‘Can Elected Members Make a Difference in the UN Security Council? Australia’s Experience in 2013-2014’, Global Governance, 22(1), Jan–March, Pp 59–77.
Langmore, J. & Thakur, R. 2016, ‘The Elected and Neglected Security Council Members’, The Washington Quarterly, 39(2), Pp. 99-114
Langmore, J. 2013, ‘Australia’s Campaign for Security Council Membership’, 2013, Australian Journal of Political Science, March, 48(1), Pp 101–111.
Westendorf, J. 2013 ''Add women and stir': the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and Australia’s implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67(4), Pp. 456 74.
McLachlan-Bent, A. & Langmore, J. 2011, ‘A Crime against Humanity? Implications and Prospects of the Responsibility to Protect in the Wake of Cyclone Nargis’, Global Responsibility to Protect, 3(1), Pp 37–60.
Langmore, J. & Egeland, J. 2011, ‘Learning from Norway: Independent Middle-Power Foreign Policy’, Griffith Review 32, May, Pp 164–179.
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J Westendorf and Elliot Dolan-Evans (eds.) Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook/book/9781529238433/9781529238433.xml
McDougall, Derek and Chauvel Richard (guest editors). 2021 Small Wars & Insurgencies, 32, no. 6.
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Abid, Mujib 2025 'Taliban arrests Afghan men for Peaky Blinders dress up', ABC News, 9 December 2025
Niamatullah Ibrahimi was interviewed by the BBC on 18 June 2025 about the Israel-Iran conflict.
Ibrahimi, Niamatullah and Stanekzai, Masoom, 2025, 'The risks and rewards of engaging with Afghanistan's Taliban government', Ear to Asia podcast, Melbourne Asia Review.
Duxbury, Alison; Miletic, Tania and McDougall, Carrie, 2024, 'From Gaza to Ukraine — is it harder to build peace, than to start war?', Big Ideas podcast, ABC Radio National.
J Westendorf, ‘Sexual abuse by UN and non-UN peacekeepers’ ABC Big Ideas, 15 June 2020. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/sexual-abuse-by-un-and-non-un-peacekeepers/12247920
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J Westendorf, Violating Peace: Sex, Aid and Peacekeeping, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748059/
J Westendorf, Why Peace Processes Fail: Negotiating Insecurity after Civil War, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015. https://www.rienner.com/title/Why_Peace_Processes_Fail_Negotiating_Insecurity_After_Civil_War
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Abid, M. (2025). Hassan Abbas: The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left [Book review]. International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 56(1), 106-109. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2025.1.28570