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Since its founding, the primary purpose of the Bell School has been grounded in our scholars' ability to conduct and publish academically rigorous, conceptually innovative, world-leading research, and use that knowledge to educate, train, and engage with multiple stakeholders.
We have demonstrated commitment to high quality, multi-disciplinary, and impactful research. We have maintained a strong record of research partnerships with other universities, government agencies, and international organisations. And we have collaborated and helped build capacity with regional partners and local communities.
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The book examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the current moment generates in West Papua, where the persistent ‘stone-age’ image meets the practices and ideologies of the ‘real-time’.
The book offers the first significant study of courts in contemporary Myanmar by using both Burmese and English sources, including criminal trial records and wide ranging official documents.
This book takes up this crucial contemporary issue in the study of war and peace by examining fifteen intrastate conflicts in the Asia-Pacific.
Coming at a critical time, and one of growing interest in this Southeast Asian country among researchers and policy-makers, this book addresses this complex question from various perspectives.
This book is a highly readable tribute to Hank Nelson, written by those who knew him well, including his students, and also contains wide-ranging works by Hank himself.
Australians in Papua New Guinea, provides a history of the late Australian years in Papua New Guinea through the eyes of thirteen Australian and four Papua New Guineans.
This book provides an unprecedented and fine-grained analysis of the inner working of Indonesian parties, and by comparing them to their equivalents in other new democracies around the world.
The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level.
