Nicole George

A woman crying, Western Fiji (Alex Kehr/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

“Men have no idea what we go through”: ending violence against women in the Pacific Islands

July 21, 2017

Nicole George

Nicole George is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Nicole’s research focuses on the gendered politics of conflict and peacebuilding, violence, security and participation, broadly conceived. She has a strong interest in feminist institutional theory, as well as conceptual debates on regulatory pluralism and contested notions of (gendered) order as they are evident in local and global politics. Since the early 2000s, she has conducted research in the Pacific Islands region focusing on gender politics, gendered security and post conflict transition in Fiji, New Caledonia and Bougainville. She has worked in collaboration with women’s organisations and women decision-makers and women policy-makers in these settings to progress aspects of this work. In 2012, her work received national recognition when she was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for a 3-year study into the relationship between women’s participation in decision-making and their physical security in the Pacific region.