Anthony Ware

I am an Associate Professor of International & Community Development. My research focusses on conflict-affected humanitarian-development situations, including analysis of both the conflict and the theory-practice of international responses. I am particularly interested in everyday peace and bottom-up, civil society or community-led peacebuilding, countering violent extremism (CVE), conflict analysis, and conflict-sensitivity and do no harm (DNH). My fieldwork primarily focussed on Myanmar until recently—particularly Rakhine State and the Rohingya conflict. I continue research Myanmar, but more recently also in Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, Kenya and Mozambique.

I am highly experienced in collecting qualitative field data on complex, conflict-related humanitarian-development problems, and leading data collection in difficult contexts. I usually work in close collaboration/co-design research with local civil society organisations and/or researchers.

I am a Visiting Research Professor at the School of Strategic and Global Studies, University of Indonesia (2023-2026). I was Director (and co-founder) of the Australia Myanmar Institute (AMI) 2014-2017 (https://aummi.edu.au/), Secretary of the Development Studies Association of Australia (DSAA) 2019-2022 (https://www.developmentstudies.asn.au/), and Convenor of Deakin's Development-Humanitarian Research Group (2018-2022). I am a Thematic Editor of Development in Practice journal (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cdip20).

I have published 7 books (2 monographs, 5 edited), including lead author of the highly regarded Myanmar's 'Rohingya' Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2018, with Costas Laoutides), which was selected for the 2019 Irrawaddy Literature Festival in Mandalay, Myanmar. I have also published 2 special issues of journals, almost 60 peer reviewed academic chapters/ chapters, and 4 industry/technical reports. I am a regular reviewer of journal articles and book manuscripts for various publishers.