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2007 Annual Report released:
The Annual Report of the Asia Research Centre for 2007 is now available
to download as a .pdf file (2Mb), simply by clicking on the image
of the cover to the right.
- One Just World
is a national series of free after-work forums in Perth, Melbourne,
Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra, focused on international development
topics of high public interest and relevance to the community. The Perth
forum 'Beyond Charity : Incorporating
Human Rights into Development' was held at the Fremantle
Town Hall on the 21 August, 2008. The series is a partnership
between AusAID, World Vision Australia (WVA), the International Women's
Development Agency (IWDA) and the Asia Research Centre. Recordings of
the speakers are available
at one
just world.
- The latest edition of Australian
Journal of International Affairs is a
special issue on The politics of Australian aid policy-making,
edited by Centre Associate Andrew Rosser, and features articles from Centre
fellows Jane Hutchison and Shahar Hameiri.
- Centre Embarks on New Modes
of Governance Project
The Asia Research Centre is embarking on a new flagship project,
New Modes of Governance in the Asia-Pacific, with the aim of identifying,
analysing and assessing new modes of governance in the region. Researchers
will investigate such questions as: What patterns are discernible
in the way that public goods are being provided? What are the competing
conceptions of the ‘public’ in the provision of these
goods and can they be reconciled? What conflicts and coalitions of
interest are involved in the competing notions of how to provide public
goods? More broadly, what are the links between new modes of governance
and political regimes? Are these modes fostering forms of political
participation and accountability that converge with or depart sharply
from institutions of representative democracy? And what are the implications
of this – both for the region and engagement with it?
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