Biography
Anthony Ware is an Associate Professor of International & Community Development. and Convenor of Deakin's Development-Humanitarian Research Group. He was Director of the Australia Myanmar Institute 2013-2017, is Secretary of the Development Studies Association of Australia and a Thematic Editor of Development in Practice journal. He previously lectured at The University of Melbourne, is a regular reviewer of journal articles and book manuscripts for several publishers, and is or has supervised (principal or associate) 13 doctoral students in fields ranging from the impact of political transition on minoirity rights, to evaluation of small NGO programs, to monitoring of NGO development program quality, to middle power influence in Myanmar's peace process, to microfinance, child sponsorship, and cultural heritage. He has as published 4 books (2 monographs, 2 edited) and 50 academic chapters/ chapters, including lead author of the highly regarded Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2018, with Costas Laoutides). His research focuses on humanitarian/international development approaches in conflict-affected situations, with a particular interest in conflict-sensitivity, do no harm, everyday peace, peacebuilding, and countering violent/ hateful extremism via community-led programming. His major field of research has been Myanmar' Conflict (Hurst & Oxford University Press 2018, with Costas Laoutides).
Read more on Anthony's profileResearch interests
- Countering violent/ hateful extremism via community-led programming, partiuclarly connected to international development programming
- Myanmar (Burma), particularly the Rohingya conflict (history, causes, drivers and impact) and international development programmes in conflict-affected parts of the country;
- Conflict-sensitivity, meaning humanitarian/international development approaches in conflict conflict-affected situations, with a particular interest in conflict-sensitivity, do no harm, everyday peace, peacebuilding, and
- Bottom-up humanitarian-development programming approaches, such as participatory, community-driven development, asset-based community development (ABCD), and community-led development approaches.
Affiliations
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Australia Myanmar Institute (board)
Development-Humanitarian Reserach Group (convenor)
Teaching interests
- International Development (ID) and Community Development (CD) theory, principles and practice
- Empowerment, participation, social change
Units taught
My current units:
- ADS711 Non-Government Organisations & Otther Development Actors
- ADS721 Private Sector Development: Corporations, Social-Enterprise & Microfinance
Other units previously taught:
- Introduction to International & Community Development
- Participatory Approaches to Development
- Aid Trade and Development
- Humanitarian Emergencies and Disaster Relief
- Internships
- Dissertations
- Public Policy in Australia
- Order and Justice in World Politics
- World Religions
- Understanding Development (MelbUni)
- Conceptualisation of Poverty, Microfinance & Development (MelbUni)
Knowledge areas
- Myanmar (Burma), particularly Rohingya/Rakhine & Kachin States conflicts
- Development in conflict-affected situations (impact of conflict on development, development on conflict) - conflict-sensitivity / 'do no harm' analysis
- Countering Violent & Hateful Extremism in the context of development programming
- Everyday peace
- Participatory development, Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), community-led development approaches
Expertise
- Burma
- Community development
- Foreign aid / international development
- Foreign aid/international development
- International relations
Research groups
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Development-Humanitarian Research Group (convenor)
Awards
- Faculty Excellence in Engagement, Collaboration and Impact through Research
- Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Teaching
- Faculty Commendation for Excellence in Teaching
- Early Career Development Fellowship, Deakin University
- Early Career Research Fellowship, Alfred Deakin Research Institute
- Publication Scholarship, Deakin University
- Winner: Deakin University 3-Minute Thesis Competition
- Australian Post-Graduate Award (APA) scholarship
- Bursary Arts-Education Faculty, Deakin University
Projects
Recent Funded Research Projects
2021-2025 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage with Plan International Australia - Appropriate International Development Intervention Responses to Address Violent and Hateful Extremism (with Prof Greg Barton)
2022-2024 Gerta Henkel Stiftung (Germany) Special Grants Programme: Security, Society & the State - Techno-Totalitarianism vs. Disruptive New Technologies: Technologically mediated cultural forms of resistance to Myanmar’s evolving physical, psychological and cyber warfare (with Prof Monique Skidmore and AProf Costas Laoutides)
2019-2022 GraceWorks Myanmar funding - Strengthening ‘everyday peace’ formation via Community Development Education (with Dr Vicki-Ann Ware)
2018-2019 with Plan International - Addressing Violent and Hateful Extremism (VHE) threough development and humanitarian programming (with Dr Vicki-Ann Ware)
2016-2017 Gerda Henkel Stiftung funding - Analysis of the causes, nature and capacities for peace in Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim—Rakhine Buddhist conflict (with Dr Costas Laoutides)
2016-2018 GraceWorks Myanmar funding - Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Action Research in Rakhine State, Myanmar (with Dr Vicki-Ann Ware)
Publications
Everyday Peace as a Community Development Approach
A Ware, V Ware, L Kelly
(2023), pp. 25-39, Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development, Bristol, UK, B1
Rakhine State Post-Coup: Arakan Army State-Building and Its Implications for Rohingya and Aid
Costas Laoutides, Anthony Ware
(2023), pp. 185-208, After the Coup: Myanmar's Political and Humanitarian Crises, Canberra, ACT., B1
A Ware
(2023), Vol. 33, pp. 548-559, Development in Practice, London, Eng., C1
Middle powers as 'peacemaking entrepreneurs' in Myanmar's peace process 2011-2021
Chiraag Roy, Anthony Ware, Costas Laoutides
(2023), pp. 1-29, The Pacific Review, London, Eng., C1
Development NGO responses to countering violent extremism and hate
A Ware, L Kelly, G Barton
(2023), Vol. 23, pp. 367-383, Conflict, Security and Development, Oxford, Eng., C1
Everyday Peace: After Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar's Rohingya Conflict'
Vicki Ware, Anthony Ware, Leanne Kelly
(2022), pp. 191-208, Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development, Bristol, Eng., B1
A Ware, V Ware, L Kelly
(2022), Vol. 43, pp. 289-308, Third World Quarterly, London, Eng., C1
L Kelly, A Ware, V Ware, E Wachter, R Hall
(2022), pp. 1-20, International Review of Victimology, London, Eng., C1
Perspectives on violent extremism from development-humanitarian NGO staff in Southeast Asia
Juhi Sonrexa, Leanne Kelly, Greg Barton, Anthony Ware
(2022), pp. 1-20, Third World Quarterly, London, Eng., C1
The political economy of Norwegian peacemaking in Myanmar's peace process
C Roy, A Ware, C Laoutides
(2021), Vol. 42, pp. 2172-2188, Third World Quarterly, C1
A Ware, C Laoutides
(2021), Vol. 21, pp. 673-696, Conflict, Security and Development, C1
Everyday peace: rethinking typologies of social practice and local agency
A Ware, V Ware
(2021), Peacebuilding, C1
Anthony Ware, Vicki Ware
(2020), pp. 247-261, Sustaining social inclusion, Abingdon, Vic., B1
Myanmar's 'Rohingya' conflict: Misconceptions and complexity
A Ware, C Laoutides
(2019), Vol. 50, pp. 60-79, Asian Affairs, London, Eng., C1
greg Barton, Dave Husy, Leanne Kelly, Juhi Sonrexa, Anthony Ware
(2019), Southbank, Vic., A6
Awareness-raising as community development : Theory, case study and innovation in Myanmar
A Ware
(2018), pp. 115-128, The Routledge handbook of community development : perspectives from around the globe, New York, N.Y., B1
Critical consciousness-raising amongst poor Rakhine villages in rural Myanmar
A Ware, V Ware
(2018), pp. 32-50, Consciousness-raising : critical pedagogy and practice for social change, London, Eng., B1
A Ware, V Ware, C Laoutides
(2018), Melbourne, Vic., A6
A Ware, P Thein Nyunt
(2017), pp. 50-66, Development across faith boundaries, Abingdon, Eng., B1
M Clarke, A Ware
(2017), pp. 3-15, Development across faith boundaries, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Faith and crossing boundaries: implications for development policy and practice
A Ware, M Clarke
(2017), pp. 173-184, Development across faith boundaries, Abingdon, Eng., B1
A Ware
(2016), pp. 27-45, Religion and urbanism: reconceptualising sustainable cities for South Asia, London, Eng., B1
Re-examining the centrality of ethnic Identity to the Kachin conflict
C Laoutides, A Ware
(2016), pp. 47-66, Conflict in Myanmar War, Politics, Religion, Singapore, Malaysia, B1
V-A Ware, A Ware, M Clarke
(2016), Vol. 26, pp. 321-333, Development in practice, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Secessionist aspects to the Buddhist-Muslim sectarian conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar
A Ware
(2015), pp. 153-168, Territorial Separatism in Global Politics, Milton Park, Eng., B1
Through the eyes of the sponsored
B Watson, A Ware
(2014), pp. 236-259, CHILD SPONSORSHIP: EXPLORING PATHWAYS TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
Beyond the usual suspects: complexity of fragility and analytical framework
A Ware
(2014), pp. 3-23, Development in difficult sociopolitical contexts: fragile, failed and pariah states, Basingstoke, England, B1
Development in fragile states and situations: theory and critique
A Ware, V Ware
(2014), pp. 24-47, Development in difficult sociopolitical contexts: fragile, failed and pariah states, Basingstoke, England, B1
Development in a fragile pariah state: Myanmar 1990-2010
A Ware
(2014), pp. 248-273, Development in difficult sociopolitical contexts: fragile, failed and pariah states, Basingstoke, England, B1
Critiques and alternatives: development in contexts of fragility
A Ware
(2014), pp. 297-321, Development in difficult sociopolitical contexts: fragile, failed and pariah states, Basingstoke, England, B1
Development in difficult sociopolitical contexts fragile, failed, pariah preface
A Ware
(2014), Baskingstoke, Eng., A7-1
V Ware, A Ware, M Clarke, G Buchanan
(2013), pp. 430-449, Handbook of research on development and religion, Cheltenham, England, B1
Asset-based community development in Myanmar: theory, fit and practice
A Ware
(2013), pp. 126-141, Growing sustainable communities: a development guide for Southeast Asia, Prahran, Vic., B1
A Ware
(2013), Vol. 75, pp. 110-114, Development bulletin : challenges for participatory development in contemporary development practice, Canberra, A. C. T., C1
L'implication des missionnaires pentecôtistes dans l'aide au développement en Asie du Sud-Est
V Ware, A Ware, M Clarke, G Buchanan
(2013), Vol. 60, pp. 488-502, Social compass, London, England, C1
Supporting national transition in Myanmar with development assistance
A Ware
(2013), Vol. 9, pp. 47-57, Journal of international studies, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia, C1
Context-sensitive development : how international NGOs operate in Myanmar
A Ware
(2012), Sterling, Va., A1
A Ware
(2012), pp. 117-138, Communities, labour and livelihood in Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, B1
Context sensitivity by development INGOs in Myanmar
A Ware
(2012), pp. 323-347, Myanmar's Transition: Openings, Obstacles and Opportunities, Singapore, B1
Winds of change in Myanmar? Implications for international cooperation In poverty alleviation
A Ware
(2012), Vol. 17, pp. 95-115, JATI : journal of Southeast Asian studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, C1
A Ware, V Ware, M Clarke
(2012), Vol. 6, pp. 31-39, Australian journal of mission studies, Parkville, Vic., C1
A Ware
(2011), pp. 46-71, International development : linking academia with development aid and effectiveness, Saarbrucken, Germany, B1
The MDGs in Myanmar : relevant or redundant?
A Ware
(2011), Vol. 16, pp. 579-596, Journal of the Asia Pacific economy, Essex, England, C1
A Ware
(2010), Vol. 1, pp. 51-83, Citizenship and globalisation research papers, Geelong, Vic., C1-1
A Ware
(2010), pp. 1-20, ASAA 2010 : Proceedings of the 18th Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference of the ASAA : Crises and Opportunities : Past, Present and Future, Adelaide, S.A., E1
A Ware
(2010), pp. 1-23, ASAA 2010 : Proceedings of the 18th Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference of the ASAA : Crises and Opportunities : Past, Present and Future, Adelaide, S.A., E1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Appropriate Development Interventions to Violent and Hateful Extremism
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Prof Greg Barton, Mr Dave Husy
ARC Linkage - Projects
- 2024: $8,166
- 2023: $102,275
- 2022: $160,012
- 2021: $255,345
Other Public Sector Funding
Everyday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
DFAT Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) programme
- 2021: $75,000
Industry and Other Funding
Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding in Rakhine State, Myanmar
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
GraceWorks Myanmar
- 2018: $23,592
- 2017: $21,647
- 2016: $19,442
Analysis of causes, nature and capacities for peace in Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim - Rakhine Buddhist conflict
A/Prof Costas Laoutides, A/Prof Anthony Ware
Gerda Henkel Foundation
- 2017: $19,334
- 2016: $43,974
Investigating the need for current practices around countering/preventing violent extremism and the work of Plan International in the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Prof Matthew Clarke, Prof Greg Barton, A/Prof Matteo Vergani
Plan International Australia
- 2018: $10,000
Analysing GraceWorks Myanmar's CDE 'Everyday Peace' Strengthening Program in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
GraceWorks Myanmar
- 2021: $19,093
- 2020: $70,126
- 2019: $62,352
Forging social cohesion after ethnic cleansing: Enhancing communication for peace-becoming between Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
A/Prof Costas Laoutides, A/Prof Anthony Ware
Gerda Henkel Foundation
- 2022: $56,276
- 2019: $74,825
Appropriate Development Interventions to Violent and Hateful Extremism
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Prof Greg Barton, Mr Dave Husy
Plan International Australia
- 2023: $22,950
- 2022: $30,101
- 2021: $23,618
Techno-Totalitarianism vs. Disruptive New Technologies: Technologically mediated cultural forms of resistance to Myanmar¿s evolving physical, psychological and cyber warfare
A/Prof Anthony Ware, A/Prof Costas Laoutides
Gerda Henkel Foundation
- 2022: $81,407
Everyday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP Phase IV
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
Alinea International P/L
- 2024: $35,000
Supervisions
Adriana Alana Stibral
Thesis entitled: THE EMERGING ¿HUMANITARIAN STUDIES¿ ACADEMIC FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP ¿ A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chiraag Roy
Thesis entitled: Middle Powers as Peacemaking Entrepreneurs in Myanmar's peace process
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Leanne Kelly
Thesis entitled: What's the point? Program evaluation in small community development NGOs
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ronan Lee
Thesis entitled: Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Rohingya perspectives of history and identity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Murray Boardman
Thesis entitled: Exploring quality in the implementation of development projects: Insights from development NGOs
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Maya Cordeiro
Thesis entitled: MEASURING PERFORMANCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS BEST PRACTICE OR BEST FIT?
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anne Laura Kraak
Thesis entitled: World Heritage and Human Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Brad Anthony Watson
Thesis entitled: Child Sponsorship NGOs: Origins, Evolution and Motives for Change
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Peter Mason
Thesis entitled: Financial Cooperatives and the development of social capital
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Aimatul Yumna
Thesis entitled: Understanding Sustainability and Outreach of Islamic Charity Based Microfinance: Cases Study in Indonesia
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences