Rate My Professor Bert Jenkins

Dr. Bert Jenkins is an Adjunct Lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of New England’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, where he has served as Peace Studies Convenor since 2008. His extensive career at UNE includes roles as Co-director of the Centre for Peace Studies from 2003 to 2007, Course Coordinator for the Master of Professional Studies (Coursework and Research) from 2006 to 2010, Higher Degree Research Coordinator from 2013 to 2014, and memberships on various committees such as the Research Committee, Teaching and Learning Committee, and UNE Academic Board Higher Degree Research Committee. Prior to focusing on peace studies, Jenkins held positions in environmental management, including ministerial appointments to the Tenterfield Native Vegetation Management Committee (1999-2003), Border Rivers Catchment Management Board (1999-2003), and Namoi Catchment Management Board (2000-2002), as well as Executive member of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW (2001-2002). He earned his PhD from the University of New England, BSc in Agricultural and Environmental Science (Honours) from Griffith University, and Associate Diploma in Rural Technology (Horticulture) from Queensland Agricultural College.

Jenkins’ interdisciplinary research centers on ecological peace, ecological restoration, peace education, and environmental humanities, with a particular emphasis on peace education in Bougainville, integrating peace, environment, and development. His background includes civil-society work in revegetation, nature conservation, and early ecological research on topics such as nesting success in forest fragments and eucalypt tree decline in the Namoi Valley. Key publications include co-authoring A Peace Education Curriculum for Bougainville (2013); editing NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery: The Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency, Bougainville (2006) with chapters “Strengthening Communities for Peace” and “From Peace to Progress”; and editing Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models (2014) with contributions like “Introduction” and “Two Kinds of Peace.” Other works feature “Cooperative Learning: A Dialogic Approach to Constructing a Locally Relevant Peace Education Programme for Bougainville” (2010), “To Mine or Not to Mine on Bougainville: Linking Peace to the Environment” (2009), and “Global Warming, Contemporary Politics & the Principle of Least Disruption” (2007). Future research will explore human-animal conflict, forest gardens, and food security in South Asia.