Associate ProfessorAnthony Ware

• conflict analysis
• conflict-affected humanitarian-development situations - theory and practice of international responses
• everyday peace and bottom-up, civil society or community-led peacebuilding/conflict transformation
• conflict-sensitivity and do no harm (DNH), plus humanitarian/international development approaches in conflict conflict-affected situations more broadly
• countering violent extremism (CVE), particularly via community-led programming and through (international) development organisation programming
• Myanmar (Burma), particularly the Rohingya conflict (history, causes, drivers and impact) and international development programmes in conflict-affected parts of the country
• bottom-up humanitarian-development programming approaches, such as participatory, community-driven development, asset-based community development (ABCD), and community-led development approaches.

Geographically, my fieldwork, was largely focussed on Myanmar until recently—particularly Rakhine State and the Rohingya conflict—but i have not visited since the 2021 coup (although I do continue to research Myanmar from a distance). Myanmar's plight deeply troubles me, and intellectually the multitude of conflicts and the complexity of the fragile democratisation and peace processes 2011-2021 captured the breadth of challenges and archetypal factors across post-conflict situations globally. I still continue research on Myanmar, but more recently have expanded fieldwork in Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, Kenya and Mozambique. 

I have won a total AUD 1,303,771 in external funding since 2015. I am lead CI for most of these grants, all addressing issues of national and global concern and leading to quality publications. Most projects involve a different team (I lead multiple teams). Details below (scroll down), but here is a summary:

• 2023-25 DFAT Australian Humanitarian Program Bangladesh w. Plan International, AUD 70,000, lead CI
• 2022-24 Gerda Henkel Stiftung AUD 185,487, lead CI
• 2021-25 ARC Linkage LP200100433 with Plan International, AUD 520,377, lead CI
• 2020-23 DFAT Australian Humanitarian Program Bangladesh w. Plan Int’l, AUD 75,000, lead CI
• 2019-21 Gerda Henkel Stiftung AUD 131,538
• 2019-21 GraceWorks Myanmar AUD 193,576, lead CI
• 2016-18 Gerda Henkel Stiftung AUD 63,310
• 2015-18 GraceWorks Myanmar AUD 64,483, lead CI