Monash GPS hosts event to advance transdisciplinary approaches to global peace and security challenges
Monash Global Peace and Security Centre (Monash GPS) hosted an event on 12 June bringing together for the first time the centre’s significantly expanded global networks and paving the way for interdisciplinary research collaborations that address threats to global peace and security.
Since the start of the year, Monash GPS has focussed on formalising its transition to address transnational security issues that intersect with conflict, including the climate crisis, the mass displacement of peoples, socio-economic inequalities, and technological advancements such as artificial intelligence. The renewed broad scope is a direct response to the increasing complexity and interconnectedness of global peace and security challenges. This demands a transdisciplinary approach to better understanding and responding to these interconnected, complex challenges. This demands a transdisciplinary approach to better understanding and responding to these interconnected, complex challenges.
To advance this ambitious agenda, Monash GPS has substantially expanded its networks within Monash and across its many Facilities and Campuses, as well as beyond Monash among global scholars, practitioners and policymakers working on issues related to global peace and security.
These expanded networks include a new Advisory Board, which includes senior global research leaders and policy makers, including Professor Katrina Lee-Koo (UQ, former GPS Director), Professor Charlie Hunt (RMIT, UNU), Lisa Sharland (Stimson Center) and Dr Jacqueline Paul (DFAT, Government of Australia).
Expanded networks also include a larger Executive Committee, with Members from Monash Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia campuses and across disciplines and centres (Politics and International Relations, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Public Policy and Management, Monash Innovation Guarantee, and the School of Media, Film and Journalism).
New networks of GPS Fellows and Affiliates have been established, which include almost 60 leading global scholars within and beyond Monash as well as policy-makers and practitioners working to address global peace and security challenges.
Broadening our networks further is increasing the numbers of PhD students at the cutting edge of research on peace and security, alongside an expanding network of partners.
The event on 12 June was the first networking meeting among the expanded networks to forge connections and research collaborations across the disciplines and sectors now represented in the centre. The aim of the event and the centre’s driving force is to advance transdisciplinary approaches to better understand and respond to the increasingly complex and intersecting global peace and security challenges.
If you conduct research in an area that impacts or is impacted by global peace and security, we invite you to become a Fellow of the GPS Centre by contacting the GPS Director (eleanor.gordon@monash.edu) or the GPS Project Coordinator (globalpeaceandsecurity@monash.edu).