The Destruction of Syria and Failure of Conflict Prevention

Professor Alexander Bellamy

Alexander Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is currently serving as a consultant and project leader for the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and R2P and is a Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, New York. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, his most recent book is ‘East Asia’s Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities’ (Oxford, 2017).