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Juliet is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney. She has also completed a coursework Masters degree and a Master of Philosophy degree at the Centre.

Juliet’s research explores an interface between philosophy, ecology and peace. It examines how a holistic, ecological and “panentheistic” worldview can evolve personal decision-making in the direction of social and ecological justice.

Prior to commencing her postgraduate studies, Juliet had broad experiences in the worlds of business, fashion, photography and Pilates. Whilst she was a student, Juliet worked as a teaching, research and administrative assistant at the Centre, and since 2012 she has been the Executive Officer of the Sydney Peace Foundation.

Juliet has taught at Lenoir Rhyne University, North Carolina as well as at the University of Sydney. Among her other achievements, Juliet co-coordinated a student-mentoring program between the Centre and Chuo University in Japan in 2013, and in 2014 she became a co-convener of the Peace and Ecology Commission of the International Peace Research Association.

Research interests

Juliet’s PhD research explores an interface between philosophy, ecology and peace. It examines how a holistic, ecological and “panentheistic” worldview can evolve personal decision-making in the direction of social and ecological justice. Her research interests include structural violence, peace education, process philosophy, religion and ecology, worldviews, panentheism and big history.

Current teaching

  • Regular guest lecture on Structural Violence and Positive Peace in PACS6911: Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies (Postgraduate Unit, University of Sydney)

Previous teaching

  • PACS6917: Religion, War and Peace (Unit Coordinator, Peace and Conflict Studies Postgraduate Unit, University of Sydney)
  • PACS6911: Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies (Assistant Coordinator and Guest Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies Postgraduate Unit, University of Sydney, also responsible for a redesign of the curriculum)
  • HUM188: Storytelling (Unit Coordinator and Curriculum Design, Humanities Undergraduate Unit, Lenoir-Rhyne University North Carolina)
  • PHI216/POL430: War and Peace (Co-Lecturer, cross-listed Philosophy and Political Science Undergraduate Unit, Lenoir-Rhyne University North Carolina)
  • ECOP6019: Political Economy of Conflict and Peace (Teaching Assistant, Political Economy Postgraduate Unit, University of Sydney).
  • PACS6910 Peace Through Tourism (Guest Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies Postgraduate Unit, University of Sydney)

Publications

Journal articles

  • Bennett, J. (2015),  “Alan Watts’ ‘Dramatic Model’ and the Pursuit of Peace”, Self & Society, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 335-44.
  • Bennett, J. (2011). “An Ethical Dilemma: Religious Fundamentalism and Peace Education” published in Ethical Perspectives, Vol 18, No 2, June 2011, pp. 197-228. ISSN 1370-0049, eISSN 1783-1431. European Centre for Ethics, K.U.Leuven, Belgium http://www.ethical-perspectives.be/page.php?LAN=E&FILE=ep_detail&ID =149&TID=1329

Book chapters

  • Bennett, J. (2016) “Reflections on Moving Toward Ecological Civilization and Positive Peace” in Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific, eds. Spring, Úrsula Oswald, , et al., AG Switzerland: Springer, pp. 167-182.
  • Bennett, J. (2016) Global Ecological Crisis: Structural Violence and the Tyranny of Small Decisions” in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective, eds. Hans Günter Brauch, et al., AG Switzerland: Springer, pp. 55-75.
  • Bennett, J. and Ngarrindjeri being Heard (2013). “An Experiment with Tourism: Educating for Social and Ecological Justice in Australia”, Envisioning Peace Tourism: Promoting Human Security Through International Citizenship, ed. Lynda-Ann Blanchard and Freya Higgins Desbiolles, Sydney: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415824637//
  • Bennett, J. (2012). “Religious Fundamentalism, Education, and Peace,” Religious Plurality, Gandhian Thought and Environmental Issues, ed. Ravi Bhatia, New Delhi: Gandhi Peace Foundation.

Edited books

  • Spring, Úrsula Oswald, Hans Günter Brauch, S. E. Serrano Oswald and Juliet Bennett, (2016) Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific, Switzerland: Springer.
  • Baruch, Hans Günter, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Juliet Bennett, and S. E. Serrano Oswald (2016) Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective,  Switzerland: Springer.

Conference papers

  • Bennett, J. (2014). “Global Ecological Crisis: A Call to a ‘New Story’”, at the Uniting for Sustainable Peace conference International Peace Research Association, Istanbul, 10-14 August.
  • Bennett, J. (2013). “Panentheism: Reframing the God Debate”, at Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Western Sydney, 3-5 December.
  • Bennett, J. (2013). “Addressing Structural Violence: a Call to a ‘New Story’,” at Higher Degree Research Conference on Social Justice, The University of Sydney, 27 November.
  • Bennett, J. (2011). “Panentheism and Peace: a Creative and Adventurous Story of Life”, at What is Life? Theology, Science and Philosophy conference, University of Nottingham, held in Krakow, 24-28 June.
  • Bennett, J. (2010). “A Breach of Child Rights: Fundamentalist Christian Schools in Australia”, at Law and Social Reality conference, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, 26 October.
  • Bennett, J. (2010). “Exploring the Roots of Worldview Conflict: Childhood Conversion in Christian Fundamentalism” at the “Communicating Peace“ conference, International Peace Research Association, Sydney, 6-10 July.
  • Bennett, J. (2010). “Fundamentalism and Education” at the International Seminar on Education and Peace, World Peace Movement Trust, Mumbai, 15-16 May.

Research theses

  • Bennett, J. (2014). Narrative and Peace: a “New Story” to address structural violence, MPhil thesis 58,000 words, The University of Sydney.
  • Bennett, J. (2009). An Ethical Dilemma: childhood conversion in Christian fundamentalism, MA dissertation 12,000 words, The University of Sydney.

2 Comments

  1. Desmond Sequeira
    3 Feb ’18    

    From another lover of Lndt chocolate:
    Just read your blog on Lindt Chocolate sourcing with particular reference to slavery and especially child slavery. Your correspondence seems to have stopped in 2015, without a clear answer. This is 2018. Has Lindt answered?

    Many thanks for doing this,
    Desmond
    Social Justice Coordinator, Unitarian Congregation of Niagara
    St. Catharines ON Canada
    Multi-Faith Chaplain, Govt.of Ontario (rtd)
    Systemic Social justice Activist

    Reply
    • Juliet Bennett
      28 May ’18    

      Hi Desmond, sadly, I did not get an answer to my last email 🙁

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As a "non-indigenous" Australian living on what was once the land of the Cadigal and Wangal Wangal communities, I wish to acknowledge the inter-generational responsibility that I feel toward the colonial past. As a beneficiary of "White Australia", to the Eora people of Sydney, I request your forgiveness. I stand in solidarity with your rightful demands to self determination and active participation in governmental decisions, and I hope I may learn from your eco-spiritual connection. May we, as Tom Trevorrow of the Ngarrindjeri puts it, learn to 'respect, care and share' the gifts that our planet offers us.

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