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Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , ‘Children Heard, Half-Heard?’: A Practitioner’s Look for Children in the Responsibility to Protect and Normative Agendas on Protection in Armed Conflict(Brill - Nijhoff, 2019) Shusterman, Jeremy; Godwin, MichelleWhen the United Nations (un) agreed on a definition of the Responsibility to Protect (r2p) at the 2005 World Summit, the two paragraphs it endorsed articulated what r2p stands for, giving the concept a focused but narrow remit around protecting populations specifically from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in armed conflict. In its next paragraph, the un Membership reiterated concerns on the impact of armed conflict on children echoing the landmark 1612 Resolution by the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict (caac) adopted a few weeks before. Though side-by-side in the text, caac and r2p were not linked. To this day, for international practitioners in emergency responses, the interaction between both remains unclear. While this simultaneous peak moment for r2p and caac may have occurred by chance, this article describes how both concepts (as advocacy tools and instruments for practitioners to ‘respond’) emerged out of similar concern for protecting civilians – including children – in conflict. However, the link between both concepts should not be overstated. While r2p and caac fit together for the intentions they share, this happened more coincidentally than purposefully. This article argues, taking an international practitioner’s perspective, that both concepts should not be understood as always operating at the same level. caac has grown from an advocacy platform to an umbrella of different programmes, responses, tools and frameworks, including the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (mrm) on Children and Armed Conflict. Even if applied with variable success, these tools and approaches under the caac agenda chart some ways practitioners can hope to do more towards protecting children in conflict. But for those same practitioners, delivering on a Responsibility to Protect is a different question – one where their ‘responsibility’ is at best secondary and implicit, because r2p sits squarely as a primary and explicit responsibility of states – who are also the ultimate duty bearers for children’s rights. While the echoes of a child rights agenda can be heard in the conversation around r2p, and while r2p can help frame and drive efforts by child protection practitioners to respond to some of the worst situations children face, r2p is, for the protection agency field officer, an aspirational goal, necessarily out of reach.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Extreme violence and vulnerability for women and girls in displacement contexts(De Gruyter, 2026-10-19) Bell, Zoe; D'Costa, Bina; Marddent, Amporn; Godwin, MichelleIn feminist research and practice, vulnerability has been widely explored from various perspectives. From the philosophical, seeing diverse bodies prone to in-juries and death, to legal and political perspectives of categorised inequality and dis-advantage. Social policy and humanitarian programs often use vulnerability to inform service intervention, seeing target groups as victims, powerless, or lacking autonomy. Such framings, however, can problematically reinforce and inadvertently contribute to victimhood, deprivation, and dependency. This chapter considers the experience of Rohingya women in the exploration of forced displacement vulnerability. This chap-ter draws from primary research and collaboration with Rohingya women and girls and shares vignettes from the Indo-Pacific that demonstrate some of the complex layering of imposed vulnerability and communities of strength and safe spaces for women and children.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , The impact of temporal trends in stroke event rates and 30-day case fatality on trends in stroke mortality: an international comparative study(2026) Nedkoff, Lee; Wright, F. Lucy; Nghiem, Nhung; Setayeshgar, Solmaz; Buajitti, Emmalin; Kwok, Aden C.H.; Zemedikun, Dawit; Camacho, Ximena; Stiles, Samantha; Goldacre, Raphael; Smolina, Kate; Rosella, Laura C.; Blakely, Tony; Clarke, PhilipBackground: Stroke mortality rates have declined in recent decades; however, data on contemporary drivers of this trend are limited. This study compared the contribution of trends in stroke event rates and 30-day case fatality to declines in stroke mortality from 2002 to 2018. Methods: Linked hospitalization and mortality data were obtained from Western Australia (WA), England, New Zealand, British Columbia (BC), and Ontario. Age-standardized and age-specific stroke mortality and event rates and 30-day case fatality were calculated and age-adjusted trends estimated from Poisson and binomial regression models. The relative contribution of trends in stroke events and 30-day case fatality to trends in stroke mortality were calculated. Results: There were 2 248 242 stroke events identified. Age-adjusted reductions in event rates ranged from −0.96%/year [95% confidence interval (CI) − 1.22, 0.70%] in men in WA to −2.51%/year (95% CI −2.61, −2.40%) in women in Ontario. Age-standardized 30-day case fatality was highest in England in 2002 (men 43.7%, women 45.5%), but declined at a greater rate than in other jurisdictions. Declines in stroke mortality ranged from −3.3%/year to −5.5%/year. Reductions in 30-day case fatality were the major contributor to declines in stroke mortality [range: men, 63.5% (Ontario)–80.9% (England); women, 55.3% (BC)–73.1% (England)]. In people aged <65 years, stroke mortality declines were almost completely driven by reductions in 30-day case fatality with increasing or attenuated event rates among those aged 35–64 years. Conclusion: Improvements in 30-day case fatality had a greater impact on stroke mortality than trends in event rates, suggesting that further gains could be achieved with targeted prevention. Adverse trends in event rates in people aged <65 years could signal future increases in stroke mortality.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , “Object of Study” Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure Studies(University of Minnesota Press, 2026) Liu, Alan; Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula; Smithies, JamesItem type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , The EU's Indo-Pacific Strategy: Perspectives From Australia(2026) McNaughton, Anne; Williams, Katarzyna Kwapisz; Wilson, Bruce; Sanchez-Mateos, Hector Samuel Martinez; Whitman, Richard G.This article examines perceptions in Australia of the European Union's Indo-Pacific Strategy, drawing on interviews conducted with government officials, experts and civil society actors. The EU is regarded positively as a friend and partner of Australia and equally committed to the maintenance of the rules-based international order. Conversely, the results of this research reveal a limited understanding of the EU's Indo-Pacific Strategy. They also reveal a persistent and limited understanding of the EU in its own right, distinct from the long-standing bilateral relations between Australia and the EU's Member States. The findings draw attention not only to the need for clearer, more targeted communications by the EU of its strategic intent in this region, but also to the need in Australia for better education about the EU and a more contemporary understanding among policymakers of the EU as a strategic actor. Ironically, the global disruption that has unfolded since 2022, accelerated by the second Trump Administration, has triggered new energy in the EU–Australia relationship. In March 2026, a trade agreement, a defence agreement and negotiations over Australia's association with the EU's research and innovation programmes have all marked a new and more purposeful phase in EU–Australia relations.