Tagged with Centre for Governance and Public Policy

On 25 November 2012, Professor Alex Bellamy, from the Centre for Governance and Public Policylaunched his latest book, Massacres and Morality: Mass Atrocities in an Age of Civilian Immunity published by Oxford University Press. A Brief Synopsis of the book: Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime […]

The latest national survey of constitutional values puts the onus on politicians to address federal reform.

Hun Joon Kim and Jason Sharman have just had their paper “Accounts and Accountability: Corruption, Human Rights, and Individual Accountability Norms” accepted for publication withInternational Organization, the top journal in International Relations. The paper explains the rise of parallel norms mandating that state leaders guilty of major human rights and corruption crimes be held accountable […]

Luke Glanville’s book,Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect,has been accepted for publication withUniversity of Chicago Press. The book examines the history of responsibilities that sovereign rulers and sovereign states have been understood to bear for the protection of populations from mass atrocities from the sixteenth century through to the present. It challenges the conventional story […]

Professor Pat Weller (with co-authors Joanne Scott and Bronwyn Stevens) haswon the 2012 Amanda Phyllis Jones Prize, awarded by the Australian Society of Archivists,for best publication that uses, features or interprets Australian archives, written or edited by a person in their own right Their book is titledFrom Post Box to Power House.