{{Short description|Australian social scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{independent sources|date=July 2016}} thumb|right|Clements in 2009 '''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.<ref name="Toda">{{cite web |title=Kevin Clements |url=https://toda.org/experts/kevin-clements.html |publisher=Toda Peace Institute |access-date=2 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220081236/https://toda.org/experts/kevin-clements.html |archive-date=20 February 2025 |location=Tokyo |url-status=live}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="ODT 26 Mar 2022">{{cite news |last1=Francis |first1=Oscar |title=Lifetime of peace work recognised |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/lifetime-peace-work-recognised |access-date=2 May 2025 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=26 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909080401/https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/lifetime-peace-work-recognised |archive-date=9 September 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==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).<ref name="Toda" />
Clements has been a consultant to numerous organisations, and advisor to the New Zealand, Australian, British, Swedish and Dutch governments. He was a member of the New Zealand Government's Defence Committee of Enquiry in 1985.{{Cn|date=May 2025}}
After retiring as Emeritus Professor from the University of Otago's peace and conflict studies programme, Clements served as director of the Toda Peace Institute in Japan.<ref name="ODT 26 Mar 2022" /> In March 2022, Clements was awarded the Luxembourg Peace Prize.<ref name="ODT 26 Mar 2022" />
==Views and positions== Following the 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting in late February 2025, Clements urged New Zealand to reconsider its traditional alliance with the United States in light of United States President Donald Trump's America First foreign policy and overtures towards Russian President Vladimir Putin.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clements |first1=Kevin |title=US on one path, we need our own |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/us-one-path-we-need-our-own |access-date=2 May 2025 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=20 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250323234459/https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/us-one-path-we-need-our-own |archive-date=23 March 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Select publications== *{{cite book |last1=Clements |first1=Kevin |title=Back from the Brink: The Creation of a Nuclear Free New Zealand |date=1988 |publisher=Allen and Unwin |location=Wellington and London |isbn=9781869403201 |url=https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/back-from-the-brink?srsltid=AfmBOopqGTvgkPv2Ql4J1K19ln9Q7LSwafdXGE-eFS6vwB3oMkrBiAUa|access-date=2 May 2025}} *{{cite book |last1=Boulding |first1=Elise |last2=Brigagao |first2=Clovis |last3=Clements |first3=Kevin |title=Peace Culture And Society Transnational Research And Dialogue |date=1991 |publisher=Westview Press |location=Boulder, Colorado |isbn=9780367297947 |url=https://www.routledge.com/Peace-Culture-And-Society-Transnational-Research-And-Dialogue/Boulding-Brigagao-Clements/p/book/9780367297947?srsltid=AfmBOork0Lt-T3Zq8EaqNo333vVS4SZjEAICqGNokaxm7VANGqnwd-Yw |access-date=2 May 2025}} *{{cite book |last1=Clements |first1=Kevin |title=Peace and security in the Asia Pacific region: post cold war problems and prospects |date=1993 |publisher=United Nations University |location=Tokyo |isbn=0864691726 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000100403 |access-date=2 May 2025}} *{{cite book |last1=Clements |first1=Kevin |title= UN Peacekeeping at the Cross Road |date=1994 |publisher=Australian National University Peace Research Centre |location=Canberra |isbn=0731520092}} *{{cite book|editor-last1=Clements |editor-first1=Kevin |editor-last2=Wards |editor-first2=Robin |title=Building International Community: Cooperating for Peace: Case Studies |date=1994 |publisher=Allen and Unwin |location=Sydney |isbn=1863738002 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000101144 |access-date=2 May 2025}} *{{cite book |last1=Haryono |first1=Endi |last2=Clements |first2=Kevin |title=Teori Pembangunan:dari kiri ke kanan (From Right to Left in Development Theory) |date=1997 |publisher=Pustaka Pelajar |location=Yogyakarta |isbn=9799075025}} *{{cite book|editor-last1=Clements |editor-first1=Kevin |editor-last2=Mizner |editor-first2=Nadia |title=The Centre Holds: Reform of the United Nations in the 21st Century|date=2008|publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781412807784 |url=https://www.routledge.com/The-Center-Holds-UN-Reform-for-21st-Century-Challenges/Mizner/p/book/9781412807784?srsltid=AfmBOooBXeg8SB3EpRPIJepTp3FeUQgG0tZpXskOjk5CEMY7drDwKrK_|access-date=2 May 2025}} *{{cite book|editor-last1=Clements |editor-first1=Kevin |editor-last2=Urbain |editor-first2=Olivier |title=Risk and uncertainty: Understanding and dialogue in the 21st century|date=2012|publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781412847728 |url=https://www.routledge.com/Risk-and-Uncertainty-Understanding-and-Dialogue-in-the-21st-Century/Urbain/p/book/9781412847728?srsltid=AfmBOorWnoo4WrW_ftubA2oaCN9WMs-xsH9pmSQU1kUWJRaZ-Y0G-i3U|access-date=2 May 2025}} *{{cite book|editor-last=Clements |editor-first=Kevin |title=Identity, trust, and reconciliation in East Asia: Dealing with painful history to create a peaceful present |date=2017|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Cham, Switzerland |isbn=9783319548968 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-54897-5 |access-date=2 May 2025}} *{{cite book |last1=Clements |first1=Kevin |last2=Ikeda |first2=Daisaku |title=Toward a century of peace: A dialogue on the role of civil society in peacebuilding |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon, UK |isbn=9781138585744 |url=https://www.routledge.com/Toward-a-Century-of-Peace-A-Dialogue-on-the-Role-of-Civil-Society-in-Peacebuilding/Clements-Ikeda/p/book/9781138585744?srsltid=AfmBOoppr-UAkpp-uwboS2v4KDemoBcrq92b2L4NLIumyIggzXjcipWJ|access-date=2 May 2025}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{URL|https://www.toda.org|Toda Peace Institute}} *{{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20070902011200/http://www.uq.edu.au/acpacs/| Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies}} *{{URL|http://www.otago.ac.nz/ncpacs/staff/otago014259.html| Personal profile at National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago}}
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