National Centre for Peace and Conflict StudiesProfessor Kevin P Clements Professor Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand, and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association. Prior to taking up these positions he was the Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia. He went to Queensland from International Alert where he was Secretary General from January 1999 to September 2003. International Alert is one of the world’s largest NGOs working on conflict transformation. It pioneered innovative policy and practical approaches to conflict prevention and transformation in Africa, Eurasia and Asia. It has also made a major contribution to the mainstreaming of conflict prevention within European Foreign and Development Ministries, the EU and a variety of UN institutions. During his time there he was on the Board of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention and past President of the European Peace Building Liaison Office in Brussels. Prior to becoming Secretary General of International Alert Kevin was the Vernon and Minnie Lynch Chair of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia USA, 1994-2000, and Director of the Institute from 1994-1999. His career has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. He was formerly Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra. Prior to this he was Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Coordinator of Peace Studies at Canterbury University, Christchurch New Zealand. Earlier he was a Lecturer in Sociology at Hong Kong University. He took up this position from a Post Doctoral Fellowship at Oxford University where he worked on development issues. He has been an advisor to the New Zealand, Australian, British, Swedish and Dutch governments on conflict prevention, peace, defence and security issues and is currently advising the German Government and the OECD on States and Violence. He was a member of the New Zealand Government’s Defence Committee of Enquiry in 1985. He was President of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) from 1994-1998, President of the IPRA Foundation from 1995-2000 and Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association. Professor Clements has been a regular consultant to a variety of non governmental and intergovernmental organisations on disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, development and regional security issues. He has written or edited 7 books and over 150 chapters/articles on conflict transformation, peacebuilding, preventive diplomacy and development with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region. Some recent PublicationsBooksK. Clements and C. Wilson (eds), 1994, UN Peacekeeping at the Cross Roads. pp. 180, ANU Peace Research Centre. K. Clements and R. Wards (eds), 1994, Building International Community: Cooperating for Peace: Case Studies. pp 329, Sydney Allen and Unwin Ltd. Kevin P Clements, 1997, Teori Pembangunan:dari kiri ke kanan, Jogjakarta, Pustaka Pelajar. This is the Indonesian translation of an updated version of From Right to Left in Development Theory. Majid Tehranian and Kevin P Clements (eds), 2005, America and the World: The Double Bind, Rutgers University New Jersey, Transaction Publishers. Kevin Clements and Nadia Mizner (eds), 2007, The Centre Holds: Reform of the United Nations in the 21st Century. Rutgers University New Jersey, Transaction Publishers. Chapters/ArticlesClements, Kevin P. & Foley, Wendy L. (2007) Security in the New Millennium: A Debate in the South Pacific on Peace and Security: Alternative Formulations in the Post Cold War Era. In Globalisation and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century, Brauch, Hans Günter; Grin, John; Mesjasz, Czeslaw; Dunay, Pal; Chadha Behera, Navnita; Chourou, Béchir; Oswald Spring, Ursula; Liotta, P.H.; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia (Eds.). Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 3 (Berlin – Heidelberg – New York – Hong Kong – London – Milan – Paris – Tokyo: Springer-Verlag). Clements Kevin P, Boege V, Brown Anne, Foley W and Nolan A. “State Building Reconsidered: The role of Hybridity in the Formation of Political Order”, Political Science, vol. 59, no. 1, June 2007, pp. 45-56. Clements, Kevin P. (2008) Terrorism: Violent and Nonviolent Responses. In Nonviolence: An Alternative for Defeating Global Terror(ism), Senthil Ram & Ralph Summy (Eds). Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York. Pp. 235-256 Clements Kevin , Boege V, Brown A and Nolan A, “Que es Lo “fallido”? Los Estados del Sur, o la investigacion y las politicas de Occidente? Un estudio sobre ordenes Politicos hybridos y los Estadfos emergentes”, Working Paper Number 08/08, ICEI, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain. Pp 25. Clements, Kevin P. with Editors (2008) Theory, Research, and Practice. In Conflict. From Analysis to Intervention. Sandra Cheldelin, Daniel Druckman and Larissa Fast (Eds). Continuum, London. Pp.9-35 Clements Kevin, Chapter 8, Conflict Prevention: Does “Responsibility to Protect” fit into Biketawa”, pp134-159, in Kennedy Graham (ed), 2008, Models of Regional Governance for the Pacific: Sovereignty and the future architecture of regionalism, Christchurch, Canterbury University Press. Clements, Kevin, "Internal Dynamics and External Interventions", pp1-13, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, Volume 21, number 1, January/March 2009. Kevin Clements with V.Boege, Anne Brown,"Hybrid Political Orders: Not Fragile States", pp13-22 Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, Volume 21, number 1, January/March 2009. Boege, V, Brown A, Clements, K and Nolan A, 2009, “On Hybrid Political Orders and Emerging States: What is Failing-States in the Global South or Research and Politics in the West?” Lead Article, pp 15-37 ,in M Fischer and B Schmelze (eds), Building Peace in the Absence of States: Challenging the Discourse on State Failure. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series Number 8, Berghof Research Centre, Berlin Germany.
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