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).
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. J. (2017). Conflict and anti-minority violence. The state of conflict and violence in Asia (pp. 208-217). Bangkok: 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
Identifiers
Contact details
- +64 9 923 7768
- +64.9.923.7768
- chris.wilson@auckland.ac.nz
- Media Contact
Primary office location
HUMAN SCIENCES BUILDING - EAST - Bldg 201E
Level 5, Room 505
10 SYMONDS ST
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand