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Author Alex J. Bellamy

Alex J. Bellamy, Non-resident Senior Adviser

Alex Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Fellow of...
Read more articles → Email: bellamy@ipinst.org

Alex Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He has served as a Consultant for the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, Secretary of the High Level Panel on the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia, and co-chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific study group on the Responsibility to Protect.

Selected Publications

  • Responsibility to Protect: Principle to Practice (with Edward C. Luck) (Cambridge: Polity, 2018)
  • East Asia’s Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • The Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
  • The Responsibility to Protect: A Defense (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • Providing Peacekeepers: The Politics, Challenges and Future of United Nations Peacekeeping Contributions (with Paul D. Williams) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • Policy Papers 06-25-2015by Alex J. Bellamy and Adam Lupel

    Why We Fail to Prevent Mass Atrocities

    In the twenty years since the Rwandan genocide, the United Nations has developed an extensive body of policies, principles, and institutions dedicated to preventing mass atrocity crimes. But in recent years the killing of unarmed civilians has become all too prevalent again, from Syria to Iraq and South Sudan to the Central African Republic. So […]

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    Atrocity Prevention
  • Policy Papers 08-15-2012by Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams

    Broadening the Base of United Nations Troop- and Police-Contributing Countries

    This report represents the first of a series of publications stemming from the Providing for Peacekeeping project, a partnership with IPI, Griffith University, and the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.The report analyzes the practical steps needed to broaden the base of UN troop- and police-contributing countries. It identifies current trends, summarizes […]

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    Peacekeeping

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