Andrew Mack

Education

AB, First-class honors, University of Essex (UK)

Bio

Andrew Mack is the Director of the Human Security Report Project and a Limited-Term Professor at the School for International Studies. Prior to establishing the Human Security Report Project, he was a Visiting Professor at the Program on Humanitarian Policy at Harvard University (2001). He spent two and a half years as the Director of Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the United Nations in 1998 – 2001.

Professor Mack previously held the Chair in International Relations at the Institute of Advanced Study at the Australian National University (1991–1998), was the Director of the ANU’s Peace Research Centre (1985–91) and Senior Research Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (1984–85). He has held research and teaching positions at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) the London School of Economics, the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, University of California at Berkeley, Irvine and San Diego, the University of Hawaii, Fudan University in Shanghai and the International University of Japan.

Mack has written and edited a dozen monographs and books and his 50 plus scholarly articles have appeared in a wide range of journals.

Areas of Specialization

• Civil War
• Conflict Prevention, Conflict Resolution
• Humanitarian Aid and Politics
• Human Security, Human Rights
• Arms Control

Research and Teaching

At the School for International Studies, Professor Mack teaches IS 409, ‘Human Security in the 21st Century’. He has previously taught courses on peace and security in the nuclear age, Asia-Pacific security, the Middle-East conflict and international politics generally.

Selected Publications

Monograph

Human Security Report, 2008/9, (Oxford University Press, New York, 2009), main author of two of three sections, forthcoming.

Human Security Brief 2007, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, main author of Overview and of Chapters 1 and 2.

Human Security Brief 2006, Human Security Centre, University of British Columbia, 2006, main author of ‘Overview’ and of Chapters 2 and 3.

Human Security Report, (Oxford University Press, New York, 2005), main author.

Chapters and Journal Articles

‘The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries’, volume based on the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus conference, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2009).

‘Estimating War Deaths: An Arena of Contestation’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 53, No. 6, 2009, with Michael Spagat, Tara Cooper and Joakim Kreutz.

‘A New Peace in Africa?’ Conflict Trends, Issue 4, 2008, with Tara Cooper.

Grants and Awards

Professor Mack has received research grants from the MacArthur, Ford, Alton Jones and Rockefeller Foundations; from the United Nations University, the Social Science Research Council (UK) and from the United States Institute for Peace; and from the governments of Australia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and the UK.

Curriculum Vitae