Overview
Background
Dr Sarah Teitt is an Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. The Asia Pacific Centre for R2P is a joint initiative of the University of Queensland and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to deepen knowledge and advance policy on R2P and mass atrocities prevention in the Asia Pacific region. Sarah’s research focusses on Chinese foreign policy in relation to international intervention, peacebuilding and humanitarian emergency response, and on the politics of genocide and mass atrocity prevention in the Asia Pacific region.
Sarah was a founding member of the APR2P Centre’s management team in 2008. From 2009-mid 2012 she served as the Centre’s Outreach Director, and was responsible for managing the Centre's regional partnerships, as well as developing and delivering training and education programs on mass atrocities prevention for government, civil society and academic institutions in the Asia Pacific region.
Availability
- Dr Sarah Teitt is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Roanoke College
- Masters (Coursework), The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
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2025
Other Outputs
A “forgotten crisis” escalating in Myanmar: assessing atrocity risks for 2025 and beyond
Marczak, Nikki, Ouyang, Xuwan, Teitt, Sarah and Thomsen, Karoline (2025). A “forgotten crisis” escalating in Myanmar: assessing atrocity risks for 2025 and beyond. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/0c466be
2024
Journal Article
R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson
Teitt, Sarah (2024). R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 18 (2), 191-196. doi: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2318899
2021
Journal Article
Legitimacy and centrality under threat: the case for an ASEAN response to human rights violations against the Rohingya
Barber, Rebecca and Teitt, Sarah (2021). Legitimacy and centrality under threat: the case for an ASEAN response to human rights violations against the Rohingya. Asian Politics and Policy, 13 (4), 471-492. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12602
2020
Journal Article
The Rohingya crisis: can ASEAN salvage its credibility?
Barber, Rebecca and Teitt, Sarah (2020). The Rohingya crisis: can ASEAN salvage its credibility?. Survival, 62 (5), 41-54. doi: 10.1080/00396338.2020.1819642
2020
Other Outputs
ASEAN Summit: A chance to engage on the Rohingya crisis
Barber, Rebecca and Teitt, Sarah (2020, 06 17). ASEAN Summit: A chance to engage on the Rohingya crisis The Interpreter 1-1.
2020
Book Chapter
China’s developmental peace and North Korea’s security challenges
Teitt, Sarah (2020). China’s developmental peace and North Korea’s security challenges. China–North Korea relations: between development and security. (pp. 25-49) edited by Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788979702.00010
2020
Book Chapter
Conclusion
Teitt, Sarah and Jones, Catherine (2020). Conclusion. China–North Korea relations. (pp. 197-206) edited by Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788979702.00019
2020
Book
China–North Korea relations
Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt eds. (2020). China–North Korea relations. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788979702
2020
Other Outputs
Training: Gender and Preventing Violent Extremism in Asia: Participant Workbook
Teitt, Sarah , Bronitt, Simon , Dunn, Michelle , Duriesmith, David , Zarrabi, Behnaz , Vogel, Lauren , Ryan, Luisa and Zimmerman, Shannon (2020). Training: Gender and Preventing Violent Extremism in Asia: Participant Workbook. Bangkok, Thailand: UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
2020
Book Chapter
Introduction: China and North Korea: between development and security
Jones, Catherine and Teitt, Sarah (2020). Introduction: China and North Korea: between development and security. China–North Korea relations. (pp. 1-23) edited by Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788979702.00008
2020
Book Chapter
Resistance and accommodation in China’s approach toward R2P
Teitt, Sarah (2020). Resistance and accommodation in China’s approach toward R2P. Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Contestation and Consolidation. (pp. 149-167) edited by Charles T. Hunt and Phil Orchard. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429352430-8
2019
Other Outputs
Centralising gender in atrocity prevention
Sarah Teitt (2019). Centralising gender in atrocity prevention. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
2017
Journal Article
The responsibility to protect and China's U.N. peacekeeping policy
Teitt, Sarah (2017). The responsibility to protect and China's U.N. peacekeeping policy. The Journal of International Studies, 4, 68-84.
2017
Book Chapter
Sovereignty as responsibility
Teitt, Sarah (2017). Sovereignty as responsibility. The globalization of international society. (pp. 325-344) edited by Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198793427.003.0017
2016
Other Outputs
China and the responsibility to protect
Teitt, Sarah (2016). China and the responsibility to protect. R2P IDEAS in Brief Brisbane, Australia: Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
2016
Book Chapter
Asia Pacific and South Asia
Teitt, Sarah (2016). Asia Pacific and South Asia. The Oxford handbook of the responsibility to protect. (pp. 373-390) edited by Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2016
Book Chapter
Is human security a solution?
Teitt, Sarah (2016). Is human security a solution?. Asia-Pacific security: an introduction. (pp. 241-258) edited by Joanne Wallis and Andrew Carr. Washington, DC, United States: Georgetown University Press.
2015
Other Outputs
The responsibility to protect and responsible power: explaining China’s acquiescence to international intervention to protect Libyan populations in 2011
Teitt, Sarah (2015). The responsibility to protect and responsible power: explaining China’s acquiescence to international intervention to protect Libyan populations in 2011. PhD Thesis, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.790
2015
Journal Article
Contested intervention: China, India, and the responsibility to protect
Dunne, Tim and Teitt, Sarah (2015). Contested intervention: China, India, and the responsibility to protect. Global Governance, 21 (3), 371-391. doi: 10.1163/19426720-02103003
2014
Other Outputs
Women's empowerment and atrocity prevention
Teitt, Sarah (2014, 11 11). Women's empowerment and atrocity prevention e-International Relations
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Vietnam's engagement with international human rights institutions
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Bellamy
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Doctor Philosophy
Dialogue and Nonviolent Discipline in Nonviolent Resistance Movements: The Case of Hong Kong¿s 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Bellamy
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Chinese peacebuilding practice in Myanmar
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Bellamy, Professor Shahar Hameiri
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Peacekeeping as Habit: Examining Indonesia's Maintenance of Personnel Contribution in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Bellamy
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