War, State and Community (WSC)

War, State and Community (WSC) is a Faculty of Arts research priority area as defined in the Faculty’s Planning and Resource Report (2004/2005). The research grouping is interdisciplinary, involving approaches from history, geography, politics, international relations, historical sociology, and peace and conflict resolution. It involves academic staff and research students in investigations into three main project areas:

• the effects of war on peoples, states and communities;

• the historical relationship between war and the creation of empires and states; and

• war and peacekeeping in international politics.

• Focussed research on the historical connections between war, state development and global order;

• Analysis of conflict such as terrorism in the Asia Pacific region through research into resistance to state structures, as well as long running disputes over self-determination;

• Understanding military responses to regional conflict through peacekeeping and other interventions.

The AHA panel papers will form the basis of an ARC discovery grant in 2006 on the relationship between war and the development of states.

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Contacts

Postal Address:
War, State and Community Research Group
Faculty of Arts
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong NSW 2522
Australia

Phone: +61 2 4221 3719
Fax: +61 2 4221 5341

All Enquiries to coordinator:
Dr Charles Hawksley
Email: charlesh@uow.edu.au