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Associate Professor Anthony Ware
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Associate Professor Anthony Ware

Deakin University

Institution

Deakin University

Research Areas

P/CVEHumanitarianismDevelopmentConflictEveryday peaceRohingya

I am a teaching and research Associate Professor of Humanitarianism and Development. My research is problem-oriented and impact-focussed. My expertise is around conflict-affected humanitarian-development situations, including analysis of both the conflict and the theory and practice of international responses. I am particularly interested in everyday peace and bottom-up, civil society or community-led peacebuilding/conflict transformation, preventing violent extremism (PVE), conflict analysis, and conflict-sensitivity and do no harm (DNH). Geographically, my fieldwork primarily focussed on Myanmar until recently, particularly Rakhine State and the Rohingya conflict—but more recently I have conducted detailed fieldwork in Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, Kenya and Mozambique.

Key Publications

Journal Articles

Preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) through development CSO/NGOs: A systematic review of the empirical evidence (2026)in World Development, 107510Kelly L, Barton G and Ware A
Development NGO responses to countering violent extremism and hate (2023)in Conflict, Security and Development, Vol.23, Iss.5, pp.367-384Ware A, Kelly L and Barton G
Moro Voices from Mindanao: Addressing extremism in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (2025)in Journal of Deradicalization, Vol.44, Fall, pp.1-33Kelly L, Barton G, Ware A, Ragandang P and Moner Y

Books

Civil Society Responses to Extremism in the Philippine Bangsamoro (2026)in Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781041047216Kelly L, Ragandang P, Ware A and Moner Y (eds)

Book Chapters

Conflict Sensitivity and Do No Harm: The nexus between development CSOs/NGOs and P/CVE (2024)in Bridging Research & Practice in Countering Extremism & Violent Extremism, pp.58-66, Allen E & Suljic D (eds), Hedayah, the International Center of Excellence for Countering Extremism and Violent Extremism (UAE)Ware A, Kelly L and Barton G

Reports and Projects

Protection of Vulnerable Youth from Recruitment in the Rohingya Refugee camps, Cox’s Bazaar (2026)in Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University: Melbourne, and North-South University: DhakaWare A and Siddiqi B