The US has a Women, Peace and Security Act, which is supposed to require that nations’ government departments implement and enforce the tenets of the WPS agenda. But time and time again, both great ...

Martina Zapf is the General Manager at the Development Intelligence Lab and is an international expert in peacebuilding and governance. She has previously worked on peace and development programs in ...

The peacebuilding commission, or PBC, was created as part of the UN’s broader Peacebuilding Architecture in 2005. Its creation responded to a gap in the UN’s ability to respond to the “conflict trap”, ...

Max Broad is Research Associate to the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Dr Michael Fullilove. He works closely with the Executive Director to provide research support for papers, books and ...

Despite the continuing political arm-wrestling on climate policy, a remarkable degree of public consensus has developed over the past few years. From this, the two major parties could build a ...

The Productivity Commission is calling for ideas on how to improve Australia’s productivity growth, so it is worth paring away the DOGE rhetoric and asking whether taking an axe to government can ...

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Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

Oliver Sinclair is a practising lawyer and is studying a Masters of International Relations at the Australian National University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws.

In January 2014, Linda Jakobson became an independent researcher and took up the position of Visiting Professor at the United States Studies Centre at Sydney University. From 2011 to 2013 she served ...