Publications

BOOKS

  1. Hunt, C.T. et al (2024) Human Rights and UN Peace Operations: A Thematic Study (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  2. Hunt, C. T. and Orchard, P. eds. (2020) Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Consolidation and Contestation (Abingdon: Routledge)
  3. Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. eds. (2018) Regionalism and Human Protection:  Reflections from Southeast Asia and Africa (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff)
  4. Aning, K., Brown, A., Boege, V. and Hunt, C. T. eds. (2018) Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-Colonial States (Abingdon: Routledge)
  5. Hunt, C. T. (2015) UN Peace Operations and International Policing: Navigating Complexity, Assessing Impact and Learning to Learn (Oxford: Routledge)
  6. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. and Curth-Bibb, J. (2013) Forging New Conventional Wisdom Beyond International Policing: Learning from Complex Political Realities (Boston: Brill)
  7. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. & Kondoch, B. eds. (2010) Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-building Operations: Rethinking Policing and Beyond (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff)

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

  1. Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. eds. (2016) Global Responsibility to Protect, 8(2-3), ‘Africa and Southeast Asia: Region-to-region dialogue on Human Protection Norms’
  2. Hughes, B. and Hunt, C. T. eds. (2010) Journal of International Peacekeeping, 14(3-4) ‘International Peacekeeping, Policing and beyond’

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Hunt, C. T. (2024) “‘To Serve and Protect’: The Changing Roles of Police in the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations”, Civil Wars, 26(1): 98-125. DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2119507
  2. Duursma, A., Hunt, C.T. et al (2023) “UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects”, International Peacekeeping, 30(4): 415-476, DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2023.2263178
  3. Hunt, C. T. (2023) “How many turns make a revolution? Whither the ‘dialogue of the deaf’ between peacebuilding scholars and practitioners” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 17(4): 333-350. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2023.2197446
  4. Day, A. and Hunt, C. T. (2023) “A Perturbed Peace: Applying Complexity theory to UN Peacekeeping” International Peacekeeping, 30(1): 1-23, DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2022.2158457
  5. Lawrinson, B. Gallagher, A. and Hunt, C. T. (2022) “Colliding Norm Clusters: Protection of Civilians, Responsibility to Protect, and Counterterrorism in Mali”, Global Responsibility to Protect, 14(2): 204–231.
  6. Day, A. and Hunt, C. T. (2021) “Distractions, Distortions and Dilemmas: The Externalities of Protecting Civilians in United Nations Peacekeeping”, Civil Wars, 24(1): 97-116. DOI:10.1080/13698249.2022.1995680
  7. Bellamy, A. J. and Hunt, C. T. (2021) “Using Force to Protect Civilians in UN Peacekeeping“, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 63(3): 143-170.
  8. Boege, V. and Hunt, C. T. (2020) “On ‘Travelling Traditions’: Emplaced Security in Liberia and Vanuatu“, Cooperation and Conflict, 55(4): 497-517.
  9. Hunt, C. T. and Zimmerman, S. (2020) “Twenty years of the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations: Progress, problems and prospects”, Journal of International Peacekeeping, 23(1-2): 50-81.
  10. Day, A. and Hunt, C. T. (2020) “UN Stabilisation Operations and the problem of non-linear change: A relational approach to intervening in governance ecosystems”, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 9(1), 2: 1-23.
  11. Curran, D. and Hunt, C. T. (2020) “Stabilization at the expense of Peacebuilding in UN peacekeeping operations: More than just a phase?” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 26(1): 46-68.
  12. Hunt, C. T. (2019) “Rhetoric versus reality in rise of policing in UN peace operations: ‘More blue, less green’?“, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 73(6): 609-627.
  13. Hunt, C. T. (2019) “Analysing the Co-Evolution of the Responsibility to Protect and the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations.” International Peacekeeping, 26(5): 630-659.
  14. Hunt, C. T. (2017) “Beyond the binaries: towards a relational approach to peacebuilding“, Global Change, Peace & Security, 29(3): 209-227.
  15. Hunt, C. T. (2017) “All Necessary Means to what ends? The Unintended Consequences of the ‘Robust Turn’ in UN Peace Operations”, International Peacekeeping, 24(1): 108-131.
  16. Hunt, C. T. (2016) “Emerging Powers and the Responsibility to Protect: Non-linear Norm Dynamics in Complex International Society”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 29(2): 761-781.
  17. Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. (2016) “Human Protection across Regions: Learning from Norm Promotion and Capacity Building in Southeast Asia and Africa”, Global Responsibility to Protect, 8(2-3): 105-110.
  18. Hunt, C. T. (2016) “Regionalism and Human Protection Norms: An Overview in Africa”, Global Responsibility to Protect, 8(2-3): 201-226.
  19. Hunt, C. T. with Bellamy, A. (2015) “Twenty-first Century UN peace operations: protection, force and the changing security environment”, International Affairs, 91(6): 1277–1298.
  20. Hunt, C. T. with Bellamy, A. (2011) “Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in Peace Operations”, Civil Wars, 13(1): 1-20
  21. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. (2010) “Rethinking Policing and Beyond”, Journal of International Peacekeeping, 14(3-4): 217-22.
  22. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. (2010) “Assessing Police Peacekeeping: Systemisation not Serendipity”, Journal of International Peacekeeping, 14(4): 403-424.
  23. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. (2009) “The Rule of Law in Peace and Capacity Building Operations: Moving beyond a Conventional State-Centred Imagination”, Journal of International Peacekeeping, 13(3): 267-293
  24. Hunt, C. T. (2006) “Public Information as a Mission Critical Component of West African Peace Operations”, Conflict Trends, 2006(3): 32-38 [PDF]. DOI:10.1080/13533312.2019.1659734

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Hilding Norberg, A., Hunt, C. T., Yin, H. and Birikorang, E. (2024) “Preparing for UN Policing 2030: Challenges and Opportunities” in Hilding Norberg, A. (ed.) Ideas Notes 2030: Strategic Reflections on the Future of UN Policing (Geneva: Geneva Centre for Security Policy): 20-31.
  2. Hunt, C. T. (2023) “International Policing and/as the Future of UN Peace Operations” in Gilder, A., Curran, D., Holmes, G. and Edu-Afful, F. (eds) Multidisciplinary Futures of UN Peace Operations (Palgrave): 43-68.
  3. Lawrinson, B. Gallagher, A. and Hunt, C. T. (2023) “Counterterrorism, the Responsibility to Protect and the Protection of Civilians: Exploring Norm Clusters in Mali”, Chapter 4 in Zimmerman, S. The Responsibility to Protect and Counter-Terrorism: Contradictions and Congruencies (Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff): 96-123.
  4. Day, A. and Hunt, C. T. (2023) “Endless wars, perpetual peacekeeping?” Chapter 14 in Iron, R. and Kingsbury, D. eds. How Wars End (Abingdon: Routledge).
  5. Hunt, C. T. (2020) “Complexity Theory” in Oksamytna, K. and Karlsrud, J. eds. United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press): 195-216.
  6. Hunt, C. T. (2020) “The Responsibility to Protect and the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations: Interaction, feedback and co-evolution” in Hunt, C. and Orchard, P. eds. Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Consolidation and Contestation (Abingdon: Routledge): 89-112.
  7. Hunt, C. T. & Orchard, P. (2020) “Introduction: Consolidation and Contestation of the Responsibility to Protect” in Hunt, C. and Orchard, P. eds. Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Consolidation and Contestation (Abingdon: Routledge): 1-27.
  8. Hunt, C. T. and Sharland, L. (2019) “Implementing the Responsibility to Protect through United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Opportunities and Challenges” in Jacob, C. and Mennecke, M. eds. Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: A Future Agenda (Abingdon: Routledge): 215-235.
  9. Hunt, C. T. (2018) “’Human Protection in Africa’s Regional Arrangements: Regional Perspectives and Institutional Expressions” in Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. eds. Regionalism and Human Protection:  Reflections from Southeast Asia and Africa (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff): 143-168.
  10. Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. (2018) “Regionalism and Human Protection: Reflections from Southeast Asia and Africa” in Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. eds. Regionalism and Human Protection:  Reflections from Southeast Asia and Africa (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff): 1-7.
  11. Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. (2018) “Learning Lessons across and between Regions: Norm Promotion and Capacity Building for Human Protection” in Hunt, C. T. and Morada, N. eds. Regionalism and Human Protection:  Reflections from Southeast Asia and Africa (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff): 268-276.
  12. Hunt, C. T. (2018) “Relational Perspectives on Peace Formation: Symbiosis and the Provision of Security and Justice” in Aning, K., Brown, A., Boege, V. and Hunt, C. T. eds. Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-Colonial States (Abingdon: Routledge): 78-99.
  13. Hunt, C. T. (2018) “Hybridity Revisited: Relational Approaches to Peacebuilding in Complex Sociopolitical Orders”, in Wallis, J., Kent, L., Forsyth, M., Dinnen, S. and Bose, S. eds. Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations (Canberra: ANU Press): 51-65.
  14. Hunt, C. T. (2018) “The Unintended Consequences of the Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers” in Nadin, P. ed. The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping, Global Institutions Series (Abingdon: Routledge): 145-168.
  15. Hunt, C. T. (2017) “Peacekeeping and Capacity-building” in Morley, S. Turner, J. Corteen, K. & Taylor, P. eds. A Companion to State Power, Liberties and Rights (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
  16. Hunt, C. T. (2016) “Côte d’Ivoire” in Bellamy, A. and Dunne, T. eds. The Oxford Handbook of The Responsibility to Protect (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 693-716
  17. Hunt, C. T. (2016) “Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for Peace Operations” in Brusset, E., de Coning, C., Hughes, B. eds. Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation (London: Palgrave): 79-109.
  18. Hunt, C. T. (2014) “The Role of the African Standby Force in Implementing Article 4(h)” in Kuwali, D. and Viljoen, F. eds. Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: Article 4(h) of the African Union Constitutive Act (Oxford: Routledge): 173-194.
  19. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. (2010) “Introduction: Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-building Operations” in Hunt, C. with Hughes, B. & Kondoch, B. eds. Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-building Operations: Rethinking Policing and Beyond (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff): 1-7.
  20. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. (2010) “Assessing Police Peacekeeping” in Hunt, C. with Hughes, B. & Kondoch, B. eds. Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-building Operations: Rethinking Policing and Beyond (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff): 191-212.

COMMISSIONED REPORTS, POLICY BRIEFS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  1. Anahita Gangwani, Hannah Badland, Gemma Hamilton, Belinda Johnson, Monica Barratt, Charles Hunt, Karen Villanueva, Katherine Johnson & Erika Gonzalez Garcia. (2025). “Social Equity Research Centre: Stories of change.” RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. DOI: 10.25439/rmt.30204130
  2. Hunt, C.T. (2025) Protection of Civilians by Police in UN Peace Operations (New York: International Peace Institute)
  3. Paddon Rhoads, E., Welsh, J., Hunt, C.T. et al (2025) “Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations” in Annika S. Hansen (ed.) Compendium of Policy Papers and Policy Recommendations for for the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025 in Berlin (Berlin: Global Alliance on Peace Operations.
  4. Hunt, C.T. & Strauss, E. (2025) “Enhancing the Role of UNPOL in Peacekeeping Operations” in Joachim A. Koops and Martina Dal Dosso (eds.) Compendium of Short Issue Papers and Policy Recommendations for the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025 in Berlin (Berlin: Global Alliance on Peace Operations).
  5. Day, A., Hilding-Norberg, A. & Hunt, C.T. (Forthcoming) ‘The New Agenda for Peace: An Opportunity to Reshape Peace Operations’, GCSP Policy Brief (Geneva: Geneva Centre for Security Policy)
  6. Gordon, E., Lowe, L., Hunt, C.T., et al (2024) Who Cares in Peacebuilding? Building Sustainable Peace and Advancing Gender Equality through Support for Peacebuilders with Caring Responsibilities (Melbourne: Monash Global Peace and Security Centre)
  7. Warren, A., Hunt, C.T., Warren, M., Bartley, A. and Manantan, M. (2024) Developing an AI Capability Framework for the Trilateral Security Dialogue (TSD): US, Australia, and Japan (Honolulu: Pacific Forum)
  8. Hunt, C.T. (2024) Specialized Police Teams in UN Peace Operations: A Survey of Progress and Challenges (New York: International Peace Institute)
  9. Hunt, C.T. et al (2024) “Human Rights and UN Peace Operations: A Thematic Study” Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network [EPON] Report (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  10. Hunt, C.T. and Day, A. (2024) “Strengthening a Rights-Based Approach to United Nations Peace Operations”, GCSP Policy Brief No.14 (Geneva: Geneva Centre for Security Policy)
  11. Warren, A., Hunt, C.T., Warren, M., Bartley, A. and Manantan, M. (2024) “Japan’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Emboldening the potential for AI collaboration across the Trilateral Security Dialogue”, Trilateral Security Dialogue Paper Series No. 3 Tokyo, (Melbourne / Honolulu: Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CCSRI) / Pacific Forum)
  12. Moloney, A., Robinson, R., Copinger-Symes, R., Farrell, D., Jackson, A., Warren, A., Hunt, C.T. (2023) Future Focus: The Business and Technology of AUKUS  London: Australia-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce)
  13. Dessu, M., Dawit, Yohannes, D. & Hunt, C.T. (2023) “How effective is policing in protecting civilians in peace operations? Lessons from the UN Mission in South Sudan” ISS Monograph 211 (Addis Ababa: Institute for Security Studies)
  14. Warren, A., Hunt, C.T., Warren, M., Bartley, A. and Manantan, M. (2023) “Australia’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy Emboldening the potential for AI collaboration across the Trilateral Security Dialogue” Trilateral Security Dialogue Paper Series No. 2 Melbourne (Melbourne / Honolulu: Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CCSRI) / Pacific Forum).
  15. Warren, A., Hunt, C.T., Warren, M. (2023) “The Trilateral Security Dialogue, Defence Cooperation & Artificial Intelligence: Policy, Environment and Capability Gaps” Trilateral Security Dialogue Paper Series No. 1 Washington DC (Canberra: Australian Institute of International Affairs).
  16. Hunt, C. T. and Zimmerman, S. (2022) “Counter-Terrorism & Peace Operations: The Impacts of UN Security Council Approaches to Tackling Terror on the Pursuit of Peace”, Securing the Future Initiative Brief, 2022.2, Washington, D.C.: RESOLVE Network, DOI: 10.37805/sfi2022.2.
  17. Day, A. and Hunt, C. T. (2021) “Protecting Together: Lessons from Mali and South Sudan on coherence between human rights and military components in UN peace operations”, Discussion Paper for High-Level Conference (Berlin: German Ministry of Defence / New York: German Permanent Mission to the UN)
  18. Hunt, C. T. (2020) “The Future of Police in UN Peace Operations”, Future of Peace Operations Project (New York: UN Department of Peace Operations)
  19. Day, A., Gorur, A., Holt, V. K. and Hunt, C. T. (2020) “The Political Practice of Peacekeeping: How Strategies for Peace Operations are Developed and Implemented”, Policy Report (New York: United Nations University).
  20. Hunt, C. T. (2020) “Waiting for Peace: A Review of UNMISS’ Political Strategy in South Sudan”, Policy Report – Case Study (New York: United Nations University)
  21. Hunt, C. T. (2020) “Protecting through Policing: The Protective Role of UN Police in Peace Operations”, Policy Paper (New York: International Peace Institute)
  22. Hunt, C. T. et al (2019) “From Principle to Practice: Protecting Civilians in Violent Contexts: A Field Handbook” (Canberra: Australian Government, Australian Civil-Military Centre)
  23. Day, A., Hunt, C. T., Yin, H., & Kumalo, L. (2019) “Assessing the Effectiveness of the UN Mission in South Sudan / UNMISS“, Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network [EPON] Report (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  24. Hunt, C. T. with Sands, L. (2016) “Will the World Humanitarian Summit “Grand Bargain” deliver? Reflections on the Inaugural World Humanitarian Summit”, Spotlight on R2P, Issue 31, August 2016.
  25. Brown, A., Boege, V, & Hunt, C. T. (2015) “Understanding and Working with Local Sources of Peace, Security and Justice in West Africa – Ghana and Liberia“, ADRAS Policy Brief (Canberra: DFAT)
  26. Hunt, C. T. and Malan, M. (2014) “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The UN and the protection of civilians in South Sudan”, ISS Paper 275 (Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies)
  27. Hunt, C. T. (2013) “UN Peace Operations and ‘All Necessary Means’”, R2P Ideas in Brief, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Brisbane: APR2P)
  28. Hunt, C. T. et al (2013) “Design of an M&E Framework for the I4S in Eastern DRC” (Channel Research on behalf of DfID and UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations)
  29. Weir, E. A. and Hunt, C. T. (2011) “DR Congo: Community-Based Tools for MONUSCO”, RI Field Report (Washington DC: Refugees International)
  30. Hunt, C. T. with Hughes, B. and Curth-Bibb, J. (2011) “Collaborative Policing, Monitoring & Evaluation: Program Management Framework – Rethinking International Policing, Reorienting Monitoring and Evaluation”, Comprehensive Report prepared for the International Deployment Group, Australian Federal Police (Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland)
  31. Hunt, C. T. & Bellamy, A. (2010) “Peace Operations and the Responsibility to Protect“, Working Paper No. 3, Program on the Protection of Civilians (Brisbane: Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect)
  32. Hunt, C. T. (2009) “The Protection of Civilians and The Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives and Precedents in the Asia-Pacific”, Working Paper No. 2, Program on the Protection of Civilians (Brisbane: Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect)
  33. Malan, M. and Hunt, C. T.  (2007) African Union Peace Support Operations Preparations: Reflecting the Responsibility to Protect? (Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade Canada, Human Security Section)
  34. Hunt, C. T. (2006) Public Information as a Mission Critical Component of West African Peace Operations, Research Monograph No.5 (Accra: Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre)

WORKING PAPERS

  1. Hunt, C.T. (2019) ‘The Endogeneity of United Nations Peace Operations in Conflict Systems’, Working Paper, No.2
  2. Hunt, C.T. (2018) ‘Complexity Theory and Peace Operations: The Need for a Paradigm Shift?’, Working Paper, No.1