Alex Bellamy

Alex Bellamy is Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, New York and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2008-9 he served as co-chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Study Group on the Responsibility to Protect and he currently serves as Secretary of the High Level Advisory Panel on the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia.

The Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P) at the University of Queensland is the only regional centre specifically dedicated to advancing the Responsibility to Protect principle. Its work involves research and policy dialogue on atrocity prevention, as well as establishing partnerships with civil society organisations and government bodies to build capacity and connect regional expertise.

He is author of World Peace (And How We Can Achieve It), Oxford University Press, 2019.