Overview

The Policing and Security Research Program seeks to reduce crime and disorder, increase quality of life and improve community self regulation by conducting high-quality research into conflict, crime, policing and security.

The Research Prorgram consists of a multi-disciplinary team of research scholars with expertise in experimental criminology, urban criminological theories, survey methods, advanced multi-level statistics and spatial statistics.

Projects

Addressing legitimacy issues in fragile post-conflict situations to advance conflict transformation and peacebuilding

Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies

Anne Brown, Volker Boege, Louise Wiuff Moe, Anna Nolan

Value: Euro100,000

This project analyses the different types and sources of legitimacy of state and non-state actors in post-conflict hybrid political orders, taking Max Weber’s three ideal types of legitimate authority – rational-legal, traditional, and charismati

At the Institute of Social Science Research (ISSR), our research is organised into six Research Programs. These are:

The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) was established to allow advanced inquiry into some of the most important issues and challenges facing Australia today.  Through ISSR, UQ aims to establish itself as the national leader for multidisciplinary social science and one of the world's leading social science research universities.

ISSR’s key activities are: