Kevin Clements

Kevin Paul Clements is an Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He was formerly Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) at the University of Queensland. He has also been Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association since January 2009. Since 2016 he was appointed Director of the Toda Peace Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

Early life Kevin Clements is the son of a conscientious objector. At the age of 13, Clements campaigned for nuclear disarmament in New Zealand. He was also an opponent of the Vietnam War.

Academic career Director of the Toda Peace Institute, Tokyo Japan. Foundation Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at the University of Otago, Dunedin. Visiting Professor, Centre for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict, University of Kent at Canterbury and Visiting Professor, PRIME, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo Japan 2015-2016 Secretary General of International Alert Board of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention and President of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office in Brussels. Vernon and Minnie Lynch Chair of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, USA 1994-2000, and Director of the Institute from 1994-1999. Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra . visiting or permanent academic positions at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Canterbury, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, the University of East Anglia, and the University of Colorado Boulder. President of the International Peace Research Association IPRA 1994-1998, President of the IPRA Foundation from 1995-2000 Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA).

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