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Workshop: ‘Emerging Australia-Japan Security Cooperation: A Catalyst for Strategic Rivalry or Regional Order-Building?’

The International Responses branch of the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security will host a four-day workshop whose main objective will be to assess how evolving security collaboration between Australia and Japan affects the Asia-Pacific and the global security environment.

Financial support for the workshop is being provided by the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF) , the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), and the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). Other project collaborators are the University of Sydney’s Centre for International Studies and the Lowy Institute of International Policy.

Download the workshop program (PDF, 43KB) and post-workshop report (PDF 66KB).

31 March – 3 April 2008.
Common Room, University House, ANU, and University of Sydney.

CEPS Visiting Scholar Gary T. Marx, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will explore the use of surveillance in an age of advanced technology. Marx will question what controls, if any, should there be: should surveillance be mandatory, prohibited or discretionary? And for whom and under what conditions? He will explore notions of the rights and obligations of both watchers and the watched in different settings, and expectations and sanctions around both concealing and revealing information.

Gary Marx has published widely in the field of surveillance and sociology, with titles including Protest and Prejudice and Undercover: Police Surveillance in America. He is currently finalising his forthcoming publication Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology.

Friday 18^th April: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room C, 3rd floor, H. C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Public Lecture and Book Launch: ‘Risk, Uncertainty and the Future of National Security’

Professor Michael Wesley, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, and CEPS Program Leader.

Professor Michael Wesley will introduce the new volume edited by ANU Professors Gabriele Bammer (CEPS Program Leader) and Michael Smithson (CEPS Associate Investigator), entitled Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. The lecture will discuss how risk and uncertainty inform the democratic politics of national security; and more specifically, how the management of national security is framed by the changing ways in which society assesses uncertainty and risk. He will explore the emotion of fear in individual and social contexts, and examine how different security fears lead to different structures of national security.

Professor Wesley leads the Australia 2020 panel focused on 'Australia's future security and prosperity in a rapidly changing region and world'. He will be introduced by the ANU Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Lawrence Cram. The event will be concluded by Associate Professor Alison Ritter, Director of the UNSW Drug Policy Modelling Program, of which the book is a product.

A podcast of the lecture is available here.

Thursday, 8^th May: 5.30pm. Refreshments will be served after the lecture and launch. Please RSVP to nceph@anu.edu.au or T: 6125 2378.
Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU.

Seminar: ‘Integration and Implementation Sciences: Concepts, Methods, Application’

CEPS Chief Investigator Professor Gabriele Bammer, Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University.

Abstract:
Effectively tackling real-world problems requires a new type of researcher, who can enhance collaboration between discipline and practice experts. Such researchers need a solid foundation in a set of conceptual and methods skills, called Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S).

I2S covers four domains, namely concepts and methods to enhance:
1. fresh thinking on intractable problems;
2. integration of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge;
3. understanding and management of ignorance and uncertainty; and
4. the provision of research support for decision making and practice change.

I2S provides (a) the hub around which research institutions can organise teams to investigate real world problems, (b) a baseline level of quality for such work, (c) an avenue for transmitting new theory and methods between groups focusing on different real-world problems, and (d) a home for methodologies addressing recurrent concerns in tackling complex problems that are not the province of any discipline or practice area.

Thursday, 29 May: 12.30pm – 1.30 pm.
Bob Douglas Lecture Theatre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (Building 62), cnr of Eggleston and Mills Roads, ANU.

Seminar: ‘Are Women Peaceful? Reflections on the Role of Women in Peace Building’

Professor Hilary Charlesworth, member of the CEPS International Advisory Board and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice located within RegNet, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, will explore the important role that women have played in peacebuilding in many parts of the world. She will consider the roles women have taken in peacebuilding in Bougainville, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands in particular, and the problems they face in these 'post-conflict' societies.

Tuesday, 3^rd June: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Professor Rod Broadhurst, Honorary Professor at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University.

Tuesday, 22^nd July: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘First Results of the Peacebuilding Compared Project: Indonesian Cases’

Professor John Braithwaite, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Founder of RegNet at the ANU.

Tuesday, 29^th July: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Elea Wurth, PhD scholar, Centre for Tax System Integrity at RegNet, ANU.

Tuesday, 5^th August: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘The Next Frontier: National Development, Human Rights, and the Death Penalty in Asia’

CEPS Visitor Professor David Johnson, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Abstract:
Asia is the site of at least 85 percent and as many as 95 percent of the world's executions. In this seminar, Associate Professor David Johnson will consider the varieties of Asian capital punishment, using cross-sectional and temporal analysis. Asia is also a useful territory for testing the generality of theories of capital punishment based on European experience. Looking forward, Japan and South Korea, two developed nations in Asia that still retain the death penalty, may indicate what other Asian nations are likely to do as they develop. Ultimately, Asia either will become a major staging area for world-wide abolition or the campaign against capital punishment will fail to achieve global status.

Tuesday, 12^th August: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Professor Peter Grabosky, CEPS Deputy Director, RegNet, ANU.

Abstract:
Research to date on juvenile gangs, organised crime groups, and terrorist organisations has tended to be compartmentalised. Comparative studies are scarce, and limited in focus. We know a few things about the natural history of each kind of organisation, and about the career history of members of each type. However, few, if any, attempts have been made to generalise more broadly about the genesis, trajectory and decline of criminal organisations, and about the recruitment, intensification of commitment, and desistance of individual members. In this seminar, Professor Grabosky, Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, will outline the scope of a major research project which will seek to develop and test a general theory of illicit organisations.

Tuesday, 19^th August: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Commander Grant Edwards, head of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Timor-Leste Police Development Program (TLPDP) and security adviser to the Secretary of State-Security, and Dr. Gordon Peake, Senior Policy Adviser to the AFP Timor-Leste Police Development Program (TLPDP).

Commander Edwards and Dr. Peake will discuss the current political developments of the PNTL (Timor-Leste National Police) and will endeavour to frame those issues within wider discourses about local ownership, international policing, and the applicability of the formal model of policing.

Tuesday, 2^nd September: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘Post-conflict Peace-building and the Private Sector: Policy, Legal and Regulatory Issues’

Jo Ford, PhD scholar, Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ) at RegNet, ANU.

Tuesday, 16^th September: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

The International Responses branch of the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security will co-host, together with the Department of Political Science of the National University of Singapore (NUS), a workshop entitled ‘Exploring New Dimensions of Asymmetrical Security.’ The workshop will be conducted under the auspices of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), with which the ANU and the NUS are affiliated. The workshop is an activity undertaken as part of an IARU project entitled ‘Asymmetrical Security’, which in turn is a sub-project of an overarching IARU project entitled ‘Regional perspectives on global security’.

The workshop will focus on specific aspects of counter-terrorism, criminal justice and human security. It will review how links between Australian and Singaporean institutions concerned with these issues could be strengthened. The event will be organised by Professor William Tow, Chief Investigator of the International Responses node of CEPS and Professor at the Department of International Relations at the ANU. Professor Tow will be working in collaboration with his NUS counterparts, Associate Professors Bilveer Singh and Lee Lai To.

This workshop will foreshadow a larger conference to be sponsored by IARU, to be convened in Singapore within the next two years. The larger conference will deal with a much broader scope of issues, including terrorism, insurgency movements generated by religious and ethnic problems, and economic disparities.

Wednesday 1^st October.
National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Download a report (PDF 140KB) and summary (PDF 11KB) of the workshop.

Seminar: ‘Timor-Leste: a Bridge for Constructive Partnerships Between Asia and the Pacific’

Dr. Mari Alkatiri, Prime Minister of East Timor

Abstract:
Though Timor-Leste is small, it is fortunate to be geographically positioned on the cusp of both Asia and the Pacific, the crossroads for vital sea links between the Indian and the Pacific, and North Asia and the Australian/Pacific region. This gives it an undeniable geostrategic importance. Proof of this geostrategic importance lies firstly, in the fact that Timor has been historically a stage for confrontations from time to time between opposing strategic interests. Secondly, Timor has been the object of greed of different countries which have endeavored to transform it into a "buffer zone" for their own geostrategic interests. Timor-Leste has been faced by this challenge for centuries.

Dr. Alkatiri has been a first-hand witness to the need to address this dynamic for Timor-Leste's external relations.

As the first post restoration of Independence Prime Minister, from May 2002 until June 2006, Dr. Alkatiri has been a governor of Timor-Leste during a time when it confronted these external pressures with greater force, due primarily to Timor-Leste's reliance on external assistance. These challenges loom larger today as Timor-Leste's importance geopolitically increases with its increasing participation as a sovereign owner and producer in the petroleum/energy sector.

Dr. Alkatiri will outline his experience and map out his thinking, and that of his party on how Timor-Leste can use this very important strategic position as an element to build peace and promote development, how to be a bridge for cooperation in the region and beyond it, that is internationally.

Monday, 27^th October: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU (reference C4 on the campus map).

RegNet Visitor, Professor James C. Hathaway, Dean and William Hearn Chair of Law in the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.

Biography:
Professor James Hathaway was appointed Dean and William Hearn Chair of Law at the Melbourne Law School in 2008. He is also Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Programme, and President of the Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Law. Prior to joining the Melbourne Law School, Professor Hathaway was the James E and Sarah A Degan Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan Law School (USA). Prior to that, he served as Associate Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto). Professor Hathaway is a leading authority on international refugee law, whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He regularly provides training on refugee law to academic, non governmental, and official audiences around the world.

Professor Hathaway’s publications include more than sixty journal articles, a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, 1991), an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997) and, most recently, The Rights of Refugees Under International Law (2005) – the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention, all linked to key international human rights norms and applied to the world's most difficult protection challenges.

He is of counsel to both the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and Asylum Access, a non-profit organisation committed to delivering innovative legal aid to refugees in the global South. Professor Hathaway also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Refugee Studies and of the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports and directs The Michigan-Melbourne Refugee Caselaw Site, a website that collects, indexes, and publishes leading judgments on refugee law.

Tuesday, 18^th November: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

The ANU branch of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) will hold a working lunch for interested individuals to contribute to a project on the natural history of illicit organisations (youth gangs, conventional organised crime groups, and terrorist groups).

The project is currently developing an inventory of hypotheses to explain:

Renowned scholar of terrorism and networked organisations, Professor Michael Stohl, who is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication in the University of California at Santa Barbara, will participate in the discussions.

Tuesday, 16^th December: 12.30 – 2.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12noon).
Seminar Room 1.13, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

As space will be limited, prospective participants are advised to reserve a place by emailing ceps@anu.edu.au, or ringing (02) 6125 6037, as soon as possible.

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