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Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development - Book launched by Professor Michael Wesley
Professor Michael Wesley, Dean of the College of Asia & the Pacific, has officially launched Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development, a book co-authored by Sinclair Dinnen,...
A Korean Season of Summitry
It is the season of summitry on the Korean peninsula. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met with Xi Jinping in Beijing, as well as Moon Jae-in at an inter-Korean summit in the lead up to a possible...
YOLO: Insights from Thailand
Religious worldviews can shape the thinking of senior officials in profound ways - take YOLO, for instance. ‘You only live once’ is an expression encouraging a life lived on the edge. Canadian rapper...
Nuclear Deterrence at Risk
US nuclear deterrence is at risk of being undermined, and Dr Ben Zala is headed to Harvard University to explore the cause. For Zala, the problem is the increasing importance of advanced conventional...
Writing Reaction into Theory
Dr Joseph MacKay was in New York on the night Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. As surprised as anyone, he remembers walking around town for a couple of days afterwards feeling...
Do No Harm: Findings from PNG & Solomon Islands
It has often been assumed that improving women’s access to income-generating activities would lead automatically to more general empowerment, the theory being that an increased income would improve...
Podcasting the Pacific
The Little Red Podcast began almost by accident in 2016. Dr Graeme Smith had been toying with the idea of a China politics podcast. So, when research on China’s falling gas emissions failed to get...
Convening Sacred Stories
The ANU Religion Conference convenes every two years, bringing together people of different faiths and academic disciplines united around a central theme with a mind to the divine. This April that...
Green Turtle Dreaming
In her new book chapter on the Indonesian and Australian women bridging the divides between their cultures, Virginia Hooker devises a metaphor centred on the concept of the Green Turtle. Just as...
Breaking the Silence on Secrecy
Secrecy is an essential component of diplomacy. “As long as states continue to speak the language of interests for their people, of sovereignty, secrecy will remain an essential complement of their...
