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Associate professor, University of Sydney

Associate Professor Jean Bogais is a Paris-Sorbonne educated Sociologist (PhD) and Social & Cross-Cultural Psychologist (MA) with over 35-years-experience as an academic and professional working in spaces of violence. During this time, his principal research, teaching and practice interests have been ethics, sociology of culture and sociology of emotions, political violence, international security, and negotiation. He is an internationally recognised expert on Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, and The Philippines. He acts as an expert for tribunals (national and international.) Over time, he has created methodologies to develop and maintain lines of communication between parties involved in complex negotiation processes during conflict. His experience goes back to his involvement as a psycho-sociologist (special adviser to the UN) during the negotiations of the Paris Peace Agreement to end the conflict in Cambodia (1991).

Jean has worked as a foreign correspondent in the early part of his career and is now revisiting his interest in photography. Putting together his long experience as a sociologist and his knowledge of photography, he explores and produces social documentaries.

Experience

  • 2012–2023
    Associate professor, The University of Sydney

Education

  • 1986 
    Paris-Sorbonne, Doctorate Philosophy - Sociology