Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute appoints new director
The University of 911爆料has appointed the globally-renowned international relations expert Professor Nicolas Lemay-H茅bert as the new Director of the .
Professor Lemay-H茅bert joins the HCRI from the Australian National University (ANU), where most recently he was Deputy Director (Education) of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. Before joining the ANU in 2019, he previously held positions at the University of Birmingham and the University of Quebec in Montreal.
In his work, Professor Lemay-H茅bert has researched issues of local resistance to international interventions, as well as statebuilding and peacebuilding. He has conducted fieldwork in the separatist regions of Georgia, Kosovo, Timor-Leste, Haiti and more recently Kenya. He has published two monographs - The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping (with R. Freedman and S. Wills; Cambridge University Press, 2021), and Normalization in World Politics (with G. Visoka; University of Michigan Press, 2022).
His next book is under production with Cambridge University Press (International Leviathans: International Administration). In his latest work, Professor Lemay-H茅bert has been interested in the political economy and the political geography of intervention.
He is currently completing an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant on The Cartography of Peace: Security Zones, Color Codes and Everyday Life, through which he and a team of researchers are analysing a number of colour-coded zoning practices around the world (green zones in Afghanistan or Cyprus; yellow zone in Haiti; blue zone in Kenya; red zone in Iraq).
I am very excited to join the HCRI in such a crucial moment for humanitarian studies, and peace studies more broadly. We are entering a phase of turbulence in world politics, with a recrudescence of conflicts around the world, and as such, it is more pressing than ever to train the next generation of students to face these challenges.
"I hope to contribute to the growth of the institute, which has been phenomenal in the past 15 years, and help position the institute for the new challenges emerging around the world."
"The HCRI has always been known for its excellence in research and teaching, and for its policy-relevant work, engaging a multitude of stakeholders on the ground. I plan to build on this track record to further consolidate the HCRI's position in the UK, Europe and beyond as one of the key institutes to study and do research in humanitarian, disaster, global health and peace and conflict studies."
Professor Lemay-H茅bert will lead an Institute at the forefront of research in humanitarian, conflict and disaster studies, as well as a thriving teaching unit at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. HCRI鈥檚 teaching portfolio includes a pioneering - and in the current times of global conflict, ever more important - joint degree programme in Humanitarian Practice, in collaboration with M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.