Clements, Kevin P.
- Kevin P. Clements (k.clements@uq.edu.au) is a Professor of
Peace and Conflict Studies, and the Foundation Director of the
Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University
of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He was Secretary General of
International Alert (1999-2003), one of the world's largest NGOs
devoted to conflict prevention and transformation in Africa,
Eurasia, and Asia. Before then, Clements was the Vernon and Minnie
Lynch Chair of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict
Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax,
Virginia (1994-2000), and Director of the Institute (1994-1999).
Earlier posts included Director of the Quaker UN Office in Geneva;
Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National
University in Canberra; Senior Lecturer in Sociology and
Coordinator of Peace Studies at Canterbury University,
Christchurch, New Zealand; Lecturer in Sociology at Hong Kong
University; and Post Doctoral Fellow at Oxford University, where he
worked on development issues. He has served as President of the International Peace Research
Association, or IPRA (1994-1998); President of the IPRA
Foundation (1995-2000); Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace
Research Association; advised the New Zealand, Australian, British,
Swedish, and Dutch governments on conflict prevention, peace,
defence, and security issues; and been a consultant to
non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations on
disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, development, and
regional security issues. He has written or edited 5 books and over
135 chapters/articles on conflict transformation, peacebuilding,
preventive diplomacy, and development.