Visiting Scholars
Current Visiting Scholars
Belinda Helmke
Dr. Belinda Helmke is an Australian-German academic whose research focuses primarily on international law and international relations, particularly the use of force by states and armed conflict. Belinda currently works as a political risk analyst in the corporate sector in Germany. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, and a member of the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies' Editorial Board.
Belinda's first book Under Attack: Challenges to the Rules Governing the International Use of Force is due for publication by Ashgate in July 2010. Read more about the book here.
Andrew Greig
Andrew Greig has had a long term interest in peace issues. This was much heightened by his experience in 1994 working in a CARE Australia medical team in Zaire during the Rwandan refugee crisis.
Andrew has a first degree in Natural and Moral Sciences from Cambridge University and an MA in Education from Sydney University. He has worked in broadcasting and also in educational video production, media education and educational technology at Leeds University, the University of Technology Sydney and Sydney University. More recently his career outside the peace arena has spanned public relations, science communication and health education.
One of his major interests is the role of technology in reducing the impact of war and promoting peace. Andrew’s book Taming War – Culture and Technology for Peace (Peace Power Press) was published in 2007. He is now working at increasing knowledge and awareness of the potential of peace technology. He recently launched a movement to promote these ideas, the Taming War Campaign (see www.tamingwar.com).
Andrew was recently on Sunday Nights with John Cleary on ABC Radio. Click here for more details and to listen to the recording.
Richard Hil
Dr Richard Hil is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Tweed Heads. Previously, Richard has taught at the University of York, James Cook University, Sunshine Coast University College, and Queensland University of Technology. His main areas of interest are in youth justice, child and family welfare, criminology, and peace and conflict studies.
He has recently completed books on criminology, and institutional violations of young people's rights. In addition to having published extensively in scholarly journals, Richard has also edited a number of books and co-authored Families, Crime and Juvenile Justice (with A. McMahon)and Discovering Risk and Understanding Criminology (both with J. Bessant and R.Watts).
Richard is Director of the Bellingen Institute and Associate Director of the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice at Southern Cross University.
Dr Sandra Phelps
BA, MA (University of Waikato), PhD (University of Sydney)
Dr Sandra Phelps is currently a visiting scholar at CPACS teaching Human Rights, Peace and Justice and writing a book on Kurdish women’s participation in religion and nationalism. Sandra completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2005. Since then, she has lived in Northern Iraq whilst researching gender, religion and ethnicity; as well as teaching sociological, postcolonial and feminist theories. Sandra is actively involved in Tolerancy International an Iraqi based INGO that holds inter-ethnic and inter-religious conferences and workshops to create opportunities for dialogue on issues such as reformation and secularism, transparency and the rule of law, reconciliation and human rights– particularly minority rights, women’s rights and freedom of the press. Her research interests lie in the intersecting areas of race, gender, religion and identity configuration as these pertain to concerns of human rights, violence and justice.
Ms Lucy Fiske
Past Visiting Scholars
- Mike Otterman
- Jaroslav Petrik
- Professor Dexter Da Silva
Professor Dexter Da Silva has been living and teaching in Japan for the past 15 years. He is currently a Professor at Keisen University in Tokyo, where he teaches courses in English as a Foreign Language, Second Language Acquisition, EFL Teaching Methodology, Psycholinguistics, and Educational Psychology. He is also an adjunct instructor for the Columbia University Teachers’ College MA TESOL Program in Tokyo, where he teaches Reading Methodology and Practicum courses. He visits schools throughout Japan regularly for observations of teachers and student teachers. He has presented at conferences in Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Italy, on student motivation and teaching methodology, and has written articles on student motivation, autonomy, Japanese university English language programs, and content-based language teaching. Whilst at CPACS, Professor Da Silva’s particular research project focussed on peace education and in particular developing ideas around a ‘pedagogy for trust’ for teaching and learning environments.