Save the Children Australia’s Solomon Islands office is undertaking a groundbreaking project on alcohol and violence entitled: “Supporting Youth in Dealing with Alcohol Use to Reduce Violence against Women and Children in Solomon Islands” (abbreviated as the Youth and Alcohol Project). In June 2016, the office commissioned a gender analysis regarding alcohol and violence which … Read more →

Save the Children Australia’s Solomon Islands office is undertaking a groundbreaking project on alcohol and violence entitled: “Supporting Youth in Dealing with Alcohol Use to Reduce Violence against Women and Children in Solomon Islands” (abbreviated as the Youth and Alcohol Project). In June 2016, the office commissioned a gender analysis regarding alcohol and violence which would be applicable to its ten project sites, five situated around the towns of Honiara, Guadalcanal, and five situated around Auki, Malaita, conducted by Dr Anouk Ride. She also prepared a discussion guide for youth leaders to use in communities to engage all youth in participatory exercises which would increase their conflict resolution and protective behaviour skills.

On a recent blog on Devpolicy, Dr Anouk Ride discusses how gender-based violence is framed in the Solomon Islands context and argues for a more nuanced policy and public debate on why men are violent, what role men and women have in legitimising this violence and, critically, how this can be changed. Read What’s culture … Read more →

On a recent blog on Devpolicy, Dr Anouk Ride discusses how gender-based violence is framed in the Solomon Islands context and argues for a more nuanced policy and public debate on why men are violent, what role men and women have in legitimising this violence and, critically, how this can be changed. Read What’s culture got to do with it? Causes of intimate partner violence: http://devpolicy.org/whats-culture-got-causes-intimate-partner-violence-20160413/?utm_source=Devpolicy&utm_campaign=88f43dc2f7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_082b498f84-88f43dc2f7-312049145

Dr Anouk Ride contributed one of many articles on research methodology to the new Springer title: Methodologies in Peace Psychology: Peace Research by Peaceful Means. The article “Involving Participants in Data Analysis” discusses the researcher’s experience with different methodologies in which participants conduct analysis and includes a checklist of things to consider if you are … Read more →

Dr Anouk Ride contributed one of many articles on research methodology to the new Springer title: Methodologies in Peace Psychology: Peace Research by Peaceful Means. The article “Involving Participants in Data Analysis” discusses the researcher’s experience with different methodologies in which participants conduct analysis and includes a checklist of things to consider if you are designing participatory research. As it states in the introduction to Methodologies in Peace Psychology its relevance is broader than just psychologists: “Much of the work on peace psychology exhorts researchers to be peaceful but does not provide ideas as to how one might proceed in practice. This book offers a range of creative and sound ideas as to how to go about conducting research with people whose worldview might differ considerably from that of the researchers.” It is available online here: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319183947 and at most book resellers.

This independent research report, Human Security and Livelihoods in Savo Island, Solomon Islands: Engaging with the Market Economy, aims to identify the ways in which Solomon Islanders from Savo Island engage with the Honiara Central Market (HCM). The main aim of the project is to provide evidence-based research that can inform government and donor responses … Read more →

This independent research report, Human Security and Livelihoods in Savo Island, Solomon Islands: Engaging with the Market Economy, aims to identify the ways in which Solomon Islanders from Savo Island engage with the Honiara Central Market (HCM). The main aim of the project is to provide evidence-based research that can inform government and donor responses to issues of economic development and human security on Savo Island, expecially as they relate to issues of agricultural production and the articulation of Savo Island with the urban centre of Honiara. The research was conducted by Dr Nicole Georgeou, Dr Charles Hawksley, Dr Anouk Ride, Melinda Ki’i and Walter Turasi and was funded by the Australian Catholic Univsersity and University of Wollongong.

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Dr Anouk Ride was announced as one of two winners of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses 2014 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland. The award is based on examiner’s reports for theses they consider to be a substantial contribution to the field of research. Below is … Read more →

Dr Anouk Ride was announced as one of two winners of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses 2014 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland. The award is based on examiner’s reports for theses they consider to be a substantial contribution to the field of research. Below is an abstract of the award-winning thesis.

‘Divided yet one’: Narratives of conflict and peace in Solomon Islands

This dissertation examines causes and manifestations of conflict in Solomon Islands. Comparison of academic literature, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (2013) and narrative analysis by a group of local creative writers, finds that research has overemphasised ethnic differences in conflict. More relevant to understanding conflict are the divisions between society and the political and militant elite, who often use state resources for their own wealth and security. The difference between Western academic and local views raises key questions about how conflict analysis includes and excludes its participants and how practitioners work with communities ‘divided yet one’.

Dr Anouk Ride has begun work on a new study on food security and markets, entitled Human Security And Livelihoods In Solomon Islands: Engaging With The Market Economy, which is led by Dr Nichole Georgeou (Australian Catholic University) with Dr Charles Hawksley (University of Wollongong). The field research will explore production of food on Savo Island, … Read more →

Dr Anouk Ride has begun work on a new study on food security and markets, entitled Human Security And Livelihoods In Solomon Islands: Engaging With The Market Economy, which is led by Dr Nichole Georgeou (Australian Catholic University) with Dr Charles Hawksley (University of Wollongong). The field research will explore production of food on Savo Island, Solomon Islands, for sale at the Honiara Central Market and related economic and security issues. Dr Anouk Ride leads a local research team of men and women with experience in Savo and the market trade to talk to rural people about the challenges and opportunities they face in food production and sale. The research is expected to be published later this year.

The Springer Peace Psychology Series will soon publish a new book Methodologies in Peace Psychology with a chapter on participatory data analysis by Dr Anouk Ride. Drawing on her experience in the arts, development and peacebuilding projects using local researchers and ways of eliciting data from groups and individuals, the chapter explores different methods and approaches … Read more →

The Springer Peace Psychology Series will soon publish a new book Methodologies in Peace Psychology with a chapter on participatory data analysis by Dr Anouk Ride. Drawing on her experience in the arts, development and peacebuilding projects using local researchers and ways of eliciting data from groups and individuals, the chapter explores different methods and approaches that can be used in analysis to increase participation and ownership of local people. More information about the series, edited by esteemed peace psychologist Daniel J. Christie is online: http://www.springer.com/series/7298

The School of Government, Development and International Affairs (SGDIA), Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), The University of the South Pacific hosted a presentation from Anouk Ride on 21 August 2014. Abstract: This presentation examines causes and manifestations of conflict in Solomon Islands. Comparison of academic literature, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (2013) and narrative … Read more →

The School of Government, Development and International Affairs (SGDIA), Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), The University of the South Pacific hosted a presentation from Anouk Ride on 21 August 2014.

Abstract: This presentation examines causes and manifestations of conflict in Solomon Islands. Comparison of academic literature, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (2013) and narrative analysis by a group of local creative writers, finds that research has overemphasised ethnic differences in conflict. More relevant to understanding conflict are the divisions between society and the political and militant elite, who often use state resources for their own wealth and security. The difference between Western academic and local views raises key questions about how conflict analysis includes and excludes its participants and how practitioners work with communities ‘divided yet one’.

Presenter: Dr Anouk Ride is a writer, researcher and film producer. Currently based in Solomon Islands, she has also written about conflict in Indonesia and Bougainville and co-edited a book of comparative research entitled Community Resilience in Natural Disasters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Key research interests include: social justice and social inclusion, ethnic and religious diversity, resilience, use of narrative as a diagnostic tool for interventions in conflict and disaster situations and the role of narratives in identity, conflict and peace. A full bibliography and biography is available on www.anoukride.com

Thursday, August the 21^st 2014

12:30-1:30pm - CDS Seminar Room (S103)

1^st Floor, Faculty of Business and Economics Building

All welcome. Light refreshments will be served after the seminar.

On July 11, 2014, the Oceania Conference on International Studies discussed statebuilding in the Pacific, with presentations by Dr Anouk Ride and Kylie Evans, University of Wollongong. The conference was hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne and supported by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Deakin University, La Trobe … Read more →

On July 11, 2014, the Oceania Conference on International Studies discussed statebuilding in the Pacific, with presentations by Dr Anouk Ride and Kylie Evans, University of Wollongong.

The conference was hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne and supported by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Deakin University, La Trobe University, Monash University, RMIT University and Swinburne University.  The conference organising committee includes representatives from all of our supporters and thought leaders in the field of International Studies.

Devpolicy recently printed an opinion piece by Anouk Ride on communications and public relations during natural disasters. The article is inspired by the writer’s recent experience working on crisis communications during Honiara’s April floods. Read more here: http://devpolicy.org/floods-of-information-drought-of-listening-communications-in-honiaras-floods-20140508/

Devpolicy recently printed an opinion piece by Anouk Ride on communications and public relations during natural disasters. The article is inspired by the writer’s recent experience working on crisis communications during Honiara’s April floods. Read more here: http://devpolicy.org/floods-of-information-drought-of-listening-communications-in-honiaras-floods-20140508/