Peace Justice and Strong Institutions

In the Pacific, the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) recognizes the importance of strengthening engagement and cooperation in water security as a key determinant of resilience through the establishment of a Pacific Resilience Water Security Technical Working Group (WSTWG) to facilitate multi-sectoral collaboration and engagement. A key objective of the WSTWG…

The regional research project focuses on enhancing climate-resilient WASH services in urban informal settlements in PNG, Fiji and Vanuatu through trough the development of decision and planning support systems, citizen science for localized climate insights, advocacy methods, and engagement with settlement residents in collaborative planning. The goal is to understand…

To mark World Children’s Day, an important knowledge sharing and capacity building workshop was held in Dublin, Ireland, about the steps that are needed from individuals, organisations, and governments to end orphanage volunteering and visits, and to promote child-centred, family-based care around the world. Global care reform is a long-term…

Orphanage Trafficking, in which children are recruited and trafficked into institutions for the purpose of financial profit and other forms of exploitation, is a form of institution-related trafficking of children. This Roundtable, organised by CPA UK in partnership with the BGIPU, the OSCE and Griffith University from Brisbane, aimed…

This project is investigating and comparing the trajectories of disclosure of two groups of victim/survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) – people over and under 30 years of age with a disclosure experience between 2013 and 2022. These groups differentiate adults that disclosed abuse during or after the Australian Royal…

The Griffith University Disrupting Violence Beacon is partnering with DVConnect to design and evaluate a pilot program for Queensland men who use violence in relationships. START is a short-term, phone-based program that supports men to build the foundations to stop using violence. Three pathways assist START to achieve this aim.

This project addresses an international and national gap in research focusing on adolescent family violence (AFV) in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in Australia. AFV is an under-researched topic, with increasing recognition of its relationship with adult perpetrated domestic and family violence and ongoing trauma. The emerging body of…

This project is based on an in-depth longitudinal study of 3,894 children’s cases dealt with by customary justice systems in Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories (West Bank, and the Gaza Strip), Afghanistan, Egypt, and Burkina Faso between 2013-2019. The report explores the complex ways in which customary or informal justice…

Climate change exacerbates rates and impacts of violence, especially for marginalised populations. Climate violence is an emerging concept that has been used to describe the interaction of these two global crises, yet there is no unifying definition of this term available in academic literature to date. The aim of this…

Since 2022, Griffith Library has been part of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Open Educational Resource (OER) Collective. This initiative provides a comprehensive publishing platform, workflows, copyright and resource support, and an academic Community of Practice. It enables universities to publish Open Educational Textbooks that are accessible to…