Dr Charles T. Hunt

Dr Charles T. Hunt is Professor of Global Security at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research in New York/Geneva and Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Security Studies in Addis Ababa. His research is focused on UN peace operations and peacebuilding in conflictaffected states with recent articles published in International Peacekeeping, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Survival, Conflict and Cooperation, and Civil Wars. He is currently leading a thematic study on the role of human rights in UN peace operations for the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON). Dr Charles Hunt is Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal Global Responsibility to Protect and on the editorial boards of International Peacekeeping and the Journal of International Peacekeeping. His work combines academic rigor with practical engagement to improve policy and practice and he regularly provides expert policy research and advice to the United Nations Secretariat, foreign ministries and development agencies of a range of governments on how to respond to new and emerging challenges to peace and development. Dr Charles Hunt has worked extensively across Africa including most recently in South Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mali.