Global Terrorism Research Centre
The Global Terrorism Research Centre is based in the School of Political and Social Inquiry of the Faculty of Arts and drawn primarily from the School's constituent disciplines including Politics, Criminology, Anthropology, Sociology and Communications and Media Studies. Staff from the Arts Faculty's School of Languages , Cultures and Literatures, and School of Music-Conservatorium , and the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Business and Economics, and the Monash Asia Institute have also contributed to, and often continue to participate in the Centre's research activities. The centre's members include researchers who are proficient in the languages and cultures of Russia , Central Asia, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, India and China. Full members from the School of PSI are listed below with links to their biographies for further information and contact details.
Co-Convenors (politics)
- Dr
Pete Lentini
- Politics
- Terrorism and politics in Russia and Central Asia, comparative extremisms, politics of Muslim diasporas
- Associate
Professor Dave Wright-Neville
- Politics
- Terrorism and counter-terrorism; terrorism and politics in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, The Philippines; globalisation and terrorism
- Dr Andrew Newman
- Politics
- International relations; arms control; US foreign policy
UNESCOChair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations Asia Pacific
- Professor
Gary D. Bouma
- Sociology
- Sociology of religion, managing religious diversity
Research Centre Members
- Professor Greg Barton
- Politics
- Herb Feith Chair for the Study of Indonesia
- Politics and Society in Indonesia, Political Islam and Islamic Thought, Comparative Islamic Politics
- Jemaah Islamiyah and radical Islamism in South-East Asia
- Evolving Jihadi thought and social movements
- Associate Professor Susan Blackburn
- Politics
- Indonesia , women in post-conflict areas
- Dr Andy Butfoy
- Politics
- Strategic and security studies, US foreign policy, international relations, arms control
- Dr Remy Davison
- Politics
- EU politics and economics, strategic studies, international relations and political economy
- Anna Halafoff
- Politics
- multifaith peacebuilding, managing global crisis events in culturally diverse communities
- Dr Brett Hough
- Anthropology
- Theories of violence, Bali and Indonesia
- Dr Thomas Reuter
- Anthropology
- Religion, Indonesia (especially Java and Bali) Southeast Asia & Pacific, Marginality and Representation of Minorities
- Sharif Shuja
- Victoria University
- Nuclear proliferation, Strategic studies, South Asian politics, International relations, Islam and the West
- Dr Andrew Singleton
- Sociology
- Contemporary religious change, religious movements, young people, gender
- Ms Amanda Third
- Communications
- gender and terrorism, media and terrorism
- Dr Brad Williams
- National University of Singapore
- Terrorism and Politics in East Asia
- Dr Dennis Woodward
- Politics
- Australian politics, Chinese defence policy