| List of Participants |
| Diplomacy and Democracy |
| Transnational Policy Forum |
| 16-17 October 2005 |
| Participants |
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| Professor Reginald Austin is a lawyer and elections administrator. After more than a decade teaching public law at University College , London , he was Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Zimbabwe from 1982 to 1992. He subsequently served as Chief Electoral Officer of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC); as Director of the Electoral Component, United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA); as Director of Legal and Constitutional Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London ; and as Director of the Electoral Unit at International IDEA in Stockholm . Most recently he served as Chief Electoral Adviser for Afghanistan 's 2004 presidential election. |
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| Ms Francesca Beddie is editor of Asian Currents , the e-bulletin of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. She spent over ten years with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with postings in Jakarta , Moscow and in Berlin , the last as Deputy Consul-General. She served with AusAID as Director of Policy Development, and has been a consultant in International Affairs, as well as to the Foundation of Development Corporation and to the Australian Taxation Office.. She has also served as Director of Adult Learning Australia, and as a member of the Australian Press Council. |
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| Dr Duncan Chappell is a lawyer and criminologist. After obtaining a PhD from Cambridge University , he served as Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University , and as Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology. Other appointments included Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal. He chaired the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa in 1992-1993, and was Chair of the National Committee on Violence (1989). |
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| Professor Hilary Charlesworth is Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at The Australian National University. Her interests are in international law and human rights law. She has worked on issues such as the relevance of feminist theory to understanding international law, the structure of the international human rights system, and the protection of human rights in Australia . Her current research projects include the legitimacy of UN Security Council decisions, the impact of international law on Australian law and the role of women in international dispute resolution. She was the inaugural President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, and in 2005, she was awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. She is co-author of The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (2000). |
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| Professor C.A.J. (Tony) Coady is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Melbourne University and Charles Sturt University . He has been a Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Fellow at numerous universities including Oxford and Cambridge , Princeton University and University of Maryland , and in 1999-2000 the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC . He has published on epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics and political philosophy. His books include Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992) and a recent co-edited volume entitled Righteous Violence: The Ethics and Politics of Military Intervention (2005). |
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| Professor Andrew F. Cooper is Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo , Canada , and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo . He holds a DPhil from Oxford University , and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University , The Australian National University, and Stellenbosch University in South Africa . He also has been selected as a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar, in the Western Hemisphere Program at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University , Washington , D.C. in 2000 and as Léger Fellow, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada in 1993-94. His books include, most recently, Tests of Global Governance: Canadian Diplomacy and United Nations World Conferences (2004). |
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| Ms Dumisani Hanyani is a lawyer and diplomat. After graduating in law from the University of Zimbabwe , she joined the Zimbabwean foreign service and was posted to Pretoria and Canberra , in the latter of which she served as Counsellor and acted as High Commissioner to Australia . She holds a Graduate Diploma in International Law from the Australian National University and the degree of Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Canberra ; and her most recent international posting, since leaving the Zimbabwean foreign service, has been as External Relations Officer with the Joint Electoral Management Body Secretariat, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). |
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| Mr Owen Harries is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, and Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, in Sydney . He previously served as Editor of The National Interest in Washington DC ; as Australian Ambassador to UNESCO; and as Head of Policy Planning in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs. He is author of the 2003 Boyer Lectures, published as Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony (2004). |
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| Mr Mohammed Jafar teaches Information Technology at the Lidcombe College, South Western Sydney Institute, New South Wales Department of Education and Training. A native of Iraq , he is a graduate of the University of Basrah, the Schiller International University ( Heidelberg ), and Charles Sturt University . In January 2005, he served as Count Supervisor for Australian out-of-country voting for the Iraq Transitional National Assembly election, under the auspices of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). |
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| Mr Colin Keating is Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University , New York , and Executive Director of Security Council Report, an independent not-for-profit organisation in affiliation with Columbia University 's Centre on International Organisation. He is a former Secretary for Justice in the Government of New Zealand. He served as New Zealand 's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and in 1994 was President of the United Nations Security Council. In 2002, he was invited to sit on the UN Secretary-General's External Review Committee to advise on the UN's internal reform process. |
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| Dr Pauline Kerr is Fellow and Director of Studies at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University. Before joining the College, she had served as Academic coordinator, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra; Academic Adviser, Australian Defence College; and Research Fellow in International Relations at The Australian National University. She is co-author (with Desmond Ball) of Presumptive Engagement: Australia 's Asia-Pacific Security Policy in the 1990s (1996). |
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| Dr Klaus-Peter Klaiber, KCMG is Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and the National Europe Centre at The Australian National University. He previously served as Ambassador to Australia of the Federal Republic of Germany; as European Union Special Representative in Afghanistan ; and as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs at NATO Headquarters in Brussels . He earlier served in diplomatic postings in Kinshasa , Washington , Nairobi and London , and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Mainz . |
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| Ms Martine Letts is Deputy Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, and a member of the Council of The Australian National University. Prior to taking up her present position, she was Secretary-General of Australian Red Cross. In the course of a 17-year career with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she had postings in Suva , Geneva , and Vienna , culminating in service as the Australian Ambassador to Argentina , Uruguay and Paraguay . |
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| Dr Geoffrey Brahm Levey is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales . Prior to taking up this appointment, he was Anna Biegun Warburg Junior Research Fellow in Human and Social Sciences at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford . His other academic appointments include Golda Meir Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Brown University Dean's Fellow; and Visiting Fellow at The International Center for the University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem . He holds a PhD from Brown University , and is co-editor of Jews and Australian Politics (2004). |
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| Mr Michael Maley, PSM is Director of International Services at the Australian Electoral Commission, and has been a full-time electoral administrator for more than 20 years. He served in Namibia in 1989 as a consultant to the Electoral Division of UNTAG; in Cambodia in 1992-93 as Senior Deputy Chief Electoral Officer of UNTAC; and in South Africa in 1994 as Deputy Director of the Electoral Division of UNOMSA. He has also taken part in UN survey missions in Western Sahara and Eastern Slavonia , has served as an adviser at UN Headquarters, and has been a consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat, the International Foundation for Election Systems, and International IDEA. In 2001 he spent four months with UNTAET in East Timor , where he was one of the international Commissioners of the Independent Electoral Commission which organised the election held on 30 August 2001. |
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| Professor William Maley, AM is Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University. He is author of The Afghanistan Wars (2002); edited Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban (1998, 2001); and co-edited From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States (2003). |
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| Dr Benjamin Reilly is Associate Professor in the Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Government at The Australian National University. He has held appointments at the Australian Electoral Commission and International IDEA ( Stockholm ), and is author of Democracy in Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering for Conflict Management (2001). |
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| Mr Peter Rodgers is author of Herzl's Nightmare: One Land , Two Peoples (2004), and previously served as Australian Ambassador to Israel . After an early diplomatic posting in Indonesia , he worked as a journalist and won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award for his reporting on East Timor . He is also author of a novel, The Prison of Memory (1999). |
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| Professor Varun Sahni is Professor of International Politics in the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at Jawaharlal Delhi University , New Delhi , India .. He obtained his DPhil from Oxford University , and served as Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Lincoln College , Oxford . He is a specialist on middle-power politics, and has conducted research on politics in South America and Latin America . |
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| Professor Amin Saikal is Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia ) at The Australian National University, and author of Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation (2002), and Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival (2004). He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge and Princeton Universities , and is a frequent commentator on politics and international relations in the Middle East and West Asia . |
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| Dr Bong-Scuk Sohn is a member of the South Korean parliament from the Democratic Labor Party. In 2001, she chaired the UN Independent Electoral Commission for the Constituent Assembly election in East Timor . She has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University , and a visiting research fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University . |
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| Professor Ramesh Thakur is Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo , where he heads the Peace and Governance Programme. He was a professor of international relations at the University of Otago from 1980 to 1995, and subsequently headed the Peace Research Centre at The Australian National University. He is co-editor of Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy (2002). His latest book, a study of the contemporary functioning of the United Nations, will be published by Cambridge University Press. |
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| Dr Carlos Valenzuela is an specialist on electoral administration, and most recently served as UN representative on the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq established in May 2004 which was responsible for the 2005 Transitional National Assembly election. He was Chief Electoral Officer for the Constituent Assembly election in East Timor in 2001. He holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne, and is a citizen of Colombia. |
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| Dr Elsina Wainwright is Program Director (Strategy and International) at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute , and has also worked as a consultant political analyst for the International Crisis Group in Bosnia . A former Rhodes Scholar, she holds a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was Lecturer in Politics at Oriel College and a Tutor in Politics at Christ Church. |
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| Rapporteur:
Ms Carolyn Bull is a career diplomat, presently on leave from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She is pursuing doctoral studies in international relations, studying transitional justice in Cambodia , Kosovo, and East Timor, and was part of the writing team that drafted East Timor in Transition 1998-2000: An Australian Policy Challenge (2001). |
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