Tania MileticUniversity of Melbourne | MSD · School of Social and Political Sciences
Tania Miletic
Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science); Masters in Public Administration; PostGrad Dip Psych; BA
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Introduction
Tania is the Ass Director of the Initiative for Peacebuilding InitiativeUniversity of Melbourne, with extensive peacebuilding experience in the Asia Pacific region.
Tania previously worked on a range of peace building initiatives in South East Asia and on a conflict resolution program in China; and works as an independent consultant to a range of government, non-government, community actors involved in conflict prevention and peace building.
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The purpose of this report on Security Through Sustainable Peace is to review Australian experience of peace processes and suggest possible approaches for strengthening them. The goal has been to increase the potential effectiveness, credibility and feasibility of Australian peacebuilding efforts principally by drawing on the experience of over 120...
Drawing on contribution analysis (Morton, Research Evaluation 24:405–419, 2015), this chapter outlines two case studies which examine different education and peacebuilding initiatives targeting young people and shows how their research processes contributed to gradual changes in practice and policy. The case studies are set in Uganda and Cambodia a...
This report builds on the recognition of the potential for diaspora in Australia to strengthen their role and contributions to peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts in their countries of origins. A series of past initiatives have seen the sharing of diverse ways that diaspora have made important contributions to peace efforts. This report is gro...
This presentation will briefly describe research into the perspectives of emerging leaders on conflicts in China. The research was developed in collaboration with Chinese academics working on conflict resolution. The method was qualitative and based on individual interviews with emerging leaders from five universities. Conflict scenarios provided a...
Canada has traditionally led and developed the role of state support
to peace processes in its foreign policy, especially in promoting multilateralism
and in peacekeeping operations. Whilst this leadership
declined under the Harper-led Conservative Government, it has made a
prominent return to place under the current Liberal Government. In 2013
it’...
http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australian_outlook/cambodias-peace-after-25-years/
This week it is 25 years since the Paris Peace Accords marked the official beginning of the end of the violent civil war in Cambodia. The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on the hard-won lessons of how to rebuild after decades of conflict, the cha...
The research suggests there is a gap in the peace studies and conflict
resolution literature, with little representation or understanding of
Chinese perspectives. In a project to address this gap, the researchers
conducted interviews individually with 30 participants identified as
‘emerging leaders’, who came from diverse universities and parts of...
This research examined how a sample of young leaders in China perceive conflict. The method was elicitive. Typical scenarios were constructed from post-graduate students’ stories in conflict resolution classes at the University of Nankai in Tianjin. The scenarios were discussed individually with the research participants, who came from diverse univ...
Whilst not prominent in psychological approaches to peace – both in Australia and internationally – ‘peacebuilding’ is an important and distinct paradigm in the multidisciplinary field of peace studies and conflict resolution. Contributions towards understanding and approaching direct violence have been more prominent with psychology than the more...
Whilst not prominent in psychological approaches to peace – both in Australia and internationally - ‘peacebuilding’ is an important and distinct paradigm in the multidisciplinary field of peace studies and conflict resolution. Contributions towards understanding and approaching direct violence have been more prominent with psychology than the more...
Background:
Since the signing of the Paris Peace Agreements in 1991, there have been significant efforts in peacebuilding and postwar reconstruction as Cambodia has tried to recover from the scars of both modern and traditional conflicts. Although there is general recognition of progress in peace and development as well as optimism about Cambodia’s...
It is impossible to provide high quality mental health services without excellent communication between mental health staff and clients. Communication is always about negotiation of meaning. It is difficult enough when two people share a language and culture. Difficulties in communication between mental health staff and clients frequently occur, ev...