Contact
email: sungyong.lee@otago.ac.nz
phone: +64 3 479 4547
Teaching 2019
Supervision
Dr Lee is interested in supervising students with projects in the following areas:
- Peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction
- Conflict resolution and peace negotiation
- Civil conflicts in Southeast Asia
- Post-liberal peace
Research
Dr Lee's areas of research expertise and writing for publication include:
- Third-party mediation in civil war peace negotiation
- Early phase recovery in the aftermath of violent conflicts
- Liberal peacebuilding and its alternatives
- Local-international interaction in peacebuilding
His research centres on Southeast Asia (Cambodia, the Philippines and South Thailand) and Central America (El Salvador and Guatemala).
Dr Lee earned his PhD from the University of St Andrews and had taught at Coventry University as a lecturer/senior lecturer. He has been serving as a co-managing editor of Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security (JCTS) and as a regional council member of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He received a 2018 Humanities Teaching Excellence Award. Previously, he had engaged with local peacebuilding programmes in India, Afghanistan and Cambodia as a field practitioner.
Publications
Lee, S. (2018). Local ownership in Asian peacebuilding: Development of local peacebuilding models. Springer, 199p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98611-1
Lee, S., & Park, W. (2018). The dual track of democracy promotion in post-war peacebuilding in Cambodia: The gap between institutional development and civil society mobilisation. Peacebuilding. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2018.1498671
Soeung, B., & Lee, S. (2017). The revitalisation of Buddhist peace activism in post-war Cambodia. Conflict, Security & Development, 17(2), 141-161. doi: 10.1080/14678802.2017.1300356
Joshi, M., Lee, S., & Mac Ginty, R. (2017). Built-in safeguards and the implementation of civil war peace accords. International Interactions, 43(6), 994-1018. doi: 10.1080/03050629.2017.1257491
Özerdem, A., & Lee, S. (2016). International peacebuilding: An introduction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 168p.
Authored Book - Research
Lee, S. (2018). Local ownership in Asian peacebuilding: Development of local peacebuilding models. Springer, 199p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98611-1
Özerdem, A., & Lee, S. (2016). International peacebuilding: An introduction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 168p.
Edited Book - Research
Lee, S., & Özerdem, A. (Eds.). (2015). Local ownership in international peacebuilding: Key theoretical and practical issues. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 220p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Lee, S., & Park, W. B. (2015). Nurturing local voice: The UNDP’s local empowerment programmes in Cambodia. In S. Lee & A. Özerdem (Eds.), Local ownership in international peacebuilding: Key theoretical and practical issues. (pp. 135-155). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Lee, S., & Özerdem, A. (2015). Exit strategies. In R. Mac Ginty & J. H. Peterson (Eds.), Routledge companion to humanitarian action. (pp. 372-384). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Journal - Research Article
Lee, S., & Park, W. (2018). The dual track of democracy promotion in post-war peacebuilding in Cambodia: The gap between institutional development and civil society mobilisation. Peacebuilding. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2018.1498671
Soeung, B., & Lee, S. (2017). The revitalisation of Buddhist peace activism in post-war Cambodia. Conflict, Security & Development, 17(2), 141-161. doi: 10.1080/14678802.2017.1300356
Joshi, M., Lee, S., & Mac Ginty, R. (2017). Built-in safeguards and the implementation of civil war peace accords. International Interactions, 43(6), 994-1018. doi: 10.1080/03050629.2017.1257491
Lee, S., & Abdelrahman, A. (2016). The intervention of “neighbor” countries in civil war peace negotiations. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 33(4), 355-381. doi: 10.1002/crq.21160
Lee, S., Mac Ginty, R., & Joshi, M. (2016). Social peace vs. security peace. Global Governace, 22, 491-512.
Lee, S. (2015). Motivations for local resistance in international peacebuilding. Third World Quarterly, 36(8), 1437-1452. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1052063
Joshi, M., Lee, S., & Mac Ginty, R. (2014). Just how liberal is the liberal peace? International Peacekeeping, 21(3), 364-389. doi: 10.1080/13533312.2014.932065
Lee, S., & Mac Ginty, R. (2012). Context and postconflict referendums. Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, 18(1), 43-64. doi: 10.1080/13537113.2012.654085
