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What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

I am the son of a Conscientious Objector who spent most of the Second World War in detention for his Pacifist beliefs. ( He often agonized about whether this was the right decision given the appalling horrors of fascism but decided to make a vocational commitment to this position as a way of highlighting alternatives to war). I was, therefore, born into a family where peace and war were hot topics of conversation. I spent my youth involved in the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, opposition to a variety of wars beginning with Vietnam , membership of IFOR and I started focusing attention on the links between development, human rights and peace about thirty years ago. I am in the fortunate position now of being able to combine avocational passion with my vocation as a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)

Short CV
Professor Kevin P Clements.

Professor Clements is 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 comes to this position from International Alert where he was Secretary General from January 1999 to September 2003. During his time there he was on the Board of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention and 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 Instititute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA 1994-2000 and Director of the Institute from 1994-1999.

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 . He started his career at Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand and has had visiting or permanent academic positions at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Queen Elizabeth House Oxford, The University of Hong Kong, The University of Canterbury, the Institute of South East Asian Studies-University of Singapore, the University of East Anglia, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He has been an advisor to the New Zealand, Australian , British , Swedish and Dutch governments on conflict prevention , peace, defence and security issues. 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, governmental and intergovernmental organisations on disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, development and regional security issues. He has written or edited 6 books and over 150 chapters /articles on conflict transformation, peacebuilding, conflict sensitive development and the development-peacebuilding-security nexus .

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise

Australasia, South East Asia ( Malaysia, Indonesia) Oceania, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Africa, Burundi, the Caucasus, Georgia,

What is your current country of residence?

Australia

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

Professor and Foundation Director, The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the University of Queensland, brisbane Australia

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://uq.edu.au/acpacs

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://human security

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?

Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Development, Civil Society

Which are your primary skills areas?

Evaluation, Program Design, Advocacy, Intervention

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

Development and Peace Building
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment

If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications

1. From Right to Left in Development Theory, 1979, Institute of South
East Asian Studies, Singapore.

2. With F.Corner, D.Hunt and B Poananga, 1985 Defence and Security : What New
Zealanders Want Vols 1 and 2 Wellington, Government Printer.

3. Back from the Brink : The Creation of a Nuclear Free New Zealand,
1988 Allen and Unwin, Wellington & London.

4. Elise Boulding, Clovis Brigagao, Kevin Clements (Editors) 1990 Peace,
Culture and Society : Transnational Research and Dialogue, pp 320,
Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA. .

5. Editor, Peace and Security in the Asia Pacific Region:Post Cold War
Problems and Prospects pp 400 1993 Tokyo, United Nations University Press

6. K.Clements and C.Wilson (eds) 1994 UN Peacekeeping at the Cross Roads pp
180 ANU Peace Research Centre

7. K.Clements and R .Wards (eds) 1994 Building International Community:
Cooperating for Peace:Case Studies. pp 329 Sydney Allen and Unwin Ltd

8. 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

9. Majid Tehranian and Kevin P Clements (eds) 2005 America and the World:The Double Bind, Rutgers University New Jersey, Transaction Publishers.

10. Kevin Clements and Nadia Mizner (eds) 2007 [forthcoming]. The Centre Holds:Reform of the United Nations in the 21st Century. Rutgers University New Jersey, Transaction Publishers.