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Cecilia is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Coral Bell School. Her work focuses on civilian protection, mass atrocity prevention, and international human protection norms. She is currently completing a three-year Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellowship from the ARC to study UN human protection practices. Her project, ‘United Nations Peace and Security Reform for Human Protection’, investigates how reform of the United Nations peace and security architecture is adapting to shifts in global power and the changing international order. It examines how these are in turn shaping the organisation’s human protection practices in local conflicts. It aims to develop a new framework for studying the international-local interactions that influence global norm-making and implementation, using interdisciplinary methods drawn from sociology, international relations, and international law.
Cecilia has a geographic focus on armed conflict and political violence in South and Southeast Asia, and has conducted extensive overseas field research. Her books include Child Security in Asia: The Impact of Armed Conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar (Routledge, 2014), Civilian Protection in the Twenty-First Century: Governance and Responsibility in a Fragmented World (co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2016) and Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: A Future Agenda (co-edited, Routledge, 2019).
Cecilia is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Global Responsibility to Protect. She is co-chair of the Asia-Pacific Regional Grouping of GAAMAC (Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes). In 2022, Cecilia is visiting fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford. In 2018, Cecilia was visiting fellow at the Ralph Bunch Institute, City University of New York.
Prior to completing her PhD, Cecilia worked for NGOs in France, Thailand and Cambodia, and for the Advisory Group for the Australian government's aid program.
Access Cecilia's publications at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cecilia_Jacob/research
Current student projects
Current PhD Supervision
Nicola Mathieson (chair and primary supervisor) Topic: Learning in armed groups: The mujahideen.
Dennyza Gabiela (advisor) Topic: Refugee Agency in Transit Countries
Nicole Williams (advisor) Topic: Civil war termination
Sophie Saydan (chair and primary supervisor) Topic: Non State Armed Groups: the question for political and diplomatic legitimacy
Completed PhD Supervision
Kate McFarlane (chair, primary supervisor) Topic: Children on the Front Line in South Asian Conflicts: Case Studies of Girl Soldiers in Sri Lanka and Nepal
Ana Alonso Soriano (primary supervisor) Topic: The Children Born of War in Peru and Guatemala
Alana Moore (chair and primary supervisor) Topic: The role of faith-based organizations in the international humanitarian order
Anna Samson (advisor) Topic: US Exit Strategies from Humanitarian Intervention
Thidar Khin Aye (advisor) Topic: Domestic human rights norm implementation in Myanmar
Ashley Clements (advisor) Topic: Negotiating Humanitarian Access: Yemen and Myanmar
Research interests
International Relations, security studies, armed conflict and political violence in South and Southeast Asia, Responsibility to Protect and mass atrocity prevention, civilian protection.
Researcher's projects
United Nations Peace and Security Reform for Human Protection Australian Research Council DECRA project 2019-2021
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: First Experiences and a Future Agenda With Martin Mennecke. Edited Volume, (Routledge, 2019) https://www.routledge.com/Implementing-the-Responsibility-to-Protect-A-Future-Agenda-1st-Edition/Jacob-Mennecke/p/book/9780367265526
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Project Page http://ir.bellschool.anu.edu.au/our-projects/implementing-responsibility-protect-domestic-processes-and-foreign-assistance
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United Nations Peace and Security Reform for Human Protection
Australian Research Council (ARC)
21/06/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Hate Speech and Atrocity Prevention in Asia: Patterns, Trends and Strategies
Jacob, C. & Morada, N., 2023, In: Global Responsibility to Protect. 15, 2-3, p. 93-106Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Kill Two Million of Them’: Institutionalised Hate Speech, Impunity and 21st Century Atrocities in India
Jacob, C. & Kanth, M., 2023, In: Global Responsibility to Protect. 15, 2-3, p. 209-245Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Contestation in Global Norm Making
Jacob, C., 2022, In: Law and Social Inquiry. 47, 4, p. 1315-1320Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Drone Warfare and the human protection Transnational Legal Order
Jacob, C. & Mathieson, N., 2022, Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society. Paul Lushenko, Srinjoy Bose, William Maley (ed.). 1 ed. UK: Routledge, p. 98-116Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Foreign Policy and Promotion of Human Rights for Atrocity Prevention
Jacob, C., 2022Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report