Dr Chris Wilson

I hold a PhD in Political Science and International Relations and a Master of Arts from the Australian National University. I also hold postgraduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Otago University (NZ).

Senior Lecturer

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Biography

My research and teaching is focussed on violent conflict and terrorism. I have had a number of professional roles in conflict analysis and prevention with the World Bank, UNDP and other international agencies. I am the coordinator of the Master of Conflict and Terrorism Studies (MCTS), the Conflict, Terrorism and Peace group (CTAP) and an editor of the Pacific Outlier blog.

Research | Current

Ethnic and religious conflict, insurgency and civil war
Terrorism, extremism and radicalisation
Authoritarianism, democratisation
Illiberal democracy and oligarchy in Asia
South East Asian Politics
South Asian Politics

My current research projects lie within the broad topic of violent conflict in Asia. I have recently researched and published on post-conflict violence, attacks against minorities, and illiberal democracy and conflict.

I am currently engaged in a book project on the causes of migration-related mass violence in the Asia Pacific. I seek to explain why large-scale migration sometimes leads to violent group conflict while in other areas indigenous and migrant communities coexist peacefully.

In addition to the publications listed below I have recently published:

"Conflict and Antiminority Violence" in The State of Conflict and Violence in Asia, The Asia Foundation, 2017: https://asiafoundation.org/publication/state-conflict-violence-asia/

"Ethnic, Religious and Regional Conflict", in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia by Robert Hefner (ed), 2018: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Contemporary-Indonesia/Hefner/p/book/9781138644427

Postgraduate supervision

I am very interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following topics, among others:

Ethnic and religious conflict, insurgency and civil war
Terrorism
Authoritarianism, democratisation
Illiberal democracy and oligarchy in Asia
South East Asian Politics
South Asian Politics

Responsibilities

I am the coordinator of the Master of Conflict and Terrorism Studies (MCTS). I am available to discuss our programme with interested students.

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Wilson, C. (2018). Ethnic, religious, and regional conflict. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia (pp. 118-128). 10.4324/9781315628837
Wilson, C. (2017). Conflict and antiminority violence. Essays on the state of conflict and violence in Asia (pp. 208-217). Auckland, N.Z.: The Asia Foundation.
Wilson, C. J. (2017). Ideological motives in spoiler violence: Postconflict Assam, Northeast India. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 23 (3), 280-296. 10.1080/13537113.2017.1344765
Wilson, C. (2016). Ongoing Rebel Violence in Autonomous Regions: Assam, Northeast India. Pacific Affairs, 89 (2), 287-307. 10.5509/2016892287
Wilson, C. J. (2015). Illiberal Democracy and Violent Conflict in Contemporary Indonesia. Democratization10.1080/13510347.2014.949680
Wilson, C. J. (2015). Imposing Internal Order on States. In E. Kavalski (Ed.) Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations (pp. 311-328). United Kingdom: Ashgate. Related URL.
Wilson, C. J. (2013). 'Ethnic Outbidding' for Patronage: The 2010 Riots in Tarakan, Indonesia. South East Asia Research, 21 (1), 105-129. 10.5367/sear.2013.0135
Wilson, C. J. (2011). Provocation or Excuse?: Process Tracing the Impact of Elite Propaganda in a Violent Conflict in Indonesia. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 17 (4), 339-360. 10.1080/13537113.2011.622629