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  • Considerations for Mission Leadership in UN Peace Operations

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    I’m really proud to have played a small part in helping the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations put together the second edition of its groundbreaking study on leadership in UN peace operations, Considerations for Mission Leadership in UN Peace Operations. My role in the project entailed editing and bringing together six chapters…

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  • Dag Hammarskjöld: ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’

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    Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past three months: a reissue of Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture, ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’. On 30 May 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld gave a lecture in Oxford about the international civil service. Now, 60 years later, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) has reissued…

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  • The Next Big Thang

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    Poet Ivy Alvarez, whose latest book is Mortal, invited me to participate in this self-interview blog meme called The Next Big Thing, where I get to share a little more about my next book. Writers participating get to answer 8-10 questions (about their book/blog/their writing), and then tag 5 other writer friends to post their…

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  • Humility Publishing

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    Last year I received the good news that my PhD thesis, “Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Poetry” had been accepted by Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, meaning that I could start to go around calling myself a doctor (except in emergency situations on planes). To celebrate, I’ve posted…

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  • covers: poems by nick whittock

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    covers: poems by nick whittock (Cordite On Demand, 2004) COD’s second book, by cricket tragic and librarian Nick Whittock, was a lot of fun to make. Nick wanted the book to be shaped like the old Footrot Flats comics. Once we got this in our minds, everything else flowed naturally and what you get for…

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  • OI: poewemz bii tom see

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    OI: poewemz bii tom see (Cordite On Demand, 2004) Earlier this year, deciding that my life wasn’t nearly as busy as it could be, I set up an imprint for Cordite Press, known as COD, or Cordite On Demand. Its aims were pretty ambitious – basically a complete shake-up of the Australian publishing industry. While…

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