Associate ProfessorCostas Laoutides

Associate Professor, International Relations

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Associate Professor, International Relations
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 925 17766 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

International Relations Theory with emphasis on the role of secessionist
movements as international actors.
Collective listening, the politics of recognition and conflict resolution.
Peace and justice in separatist and sectarian conflicts.
The collective responsibility of secessionist movements.
The structure of secessionist organisations.
Case studies: The Kurds, Transnistria and Gagauzia (Moldova), Separatist and
Sectarian Conflicts in Myanmar.

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Vulnerabilities of religious minorities in Shining India.
    5 Mar 2024 - 20 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Islamabad Policy Research Institute - $126,462.00
  • GRANT
    Techno-Totalitarianism vs. Disruptive New Technologies: Technologically mediated cultural forms of resistance to Myanmars evolving physical, psychological and cyber warfare
    1 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Gerda Henkel Foundation - AZ 16/KF/22 - $185,487.01
  • GRANT
    Forging social cohesion after ethnic cleansing: Enhancing communication for peace-becoming between Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
    3 Feb 2020 - 30 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Gerda Henkel Foundation - AZ 09/HS/19 - $131,538.00
  • GRANT
    State and Society in Iran: Identity and the Securitisation of Minority Policies
    1 Jun 2017 - 30 Nov 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    Gerda Henkel Foundation - $96,831.25
  • GRANT
    Analysis of causes, nature and capacities for peace in Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim - Rakhine Buddhist conflict
    1 May 2016 - 30 Apr 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    Gerda Henkel Foundation - AZ 12/KF/16 - $63,309.23