Dr Shannon Zimmerman is a Lecturer in Strategic Studies as Deakin University at the Australian War College. She is also a Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. She has two areas of research. The first is on peacekeeping, peace operations, and UN Stabilisation operations and looks at how these operations contest and create sovereignty the ground. Dr Zimmerman also explores how they prevent atrocity crimes and protect civilians, particularly in asymmetric threat environments. Her other field of research is misogyny motivated terrorism with a particular focus on the online Manosphere and the political ideology of Incels or 'involuntary celibates'. Dr Zimmerman completed her PhD on 'Counterterrorism and the Protection of Civilians in Peace Operations' in Aug 2019. In addition to her PhD, she holds a Masters in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr Zimmerman the Deputy Director of Women in International Security - Australia.
Experience
2022–present
Lecturer, Deakin University
2020–2022
Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
2019–2022
Casual Lecturer/Tutor, Australian National University
Education
2019
University of Queensland, PhD in Political Science and International Studies
2012
Georgetown University, MA in Conflict Resolution
Publications
2022
Global Governance, Parallel Lines in the Sand: The Impact of Parallel French Interventions on UN Stabilization Operations in Mali and the Central African Republic
2022
Journal of Popular Culture, Doctor Who and the Responsibility to Protect: Public Perspectives of Atrocity Crimes
2022
Terrorism and Political Violence, The Ideology of Incels: Misogyny and Victimhood as Justification for Political Violence.” Terrorism and Political Violence
2022
Global Responsibility to Protect, R2P and Counter-Terrorism: Where Sovereignties Collide
2020
Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, Defining State Authority: UN Peace Operations Efforts to Extend State Authority in Mali and the Central African Republic
2020
The Journal of International Peacekeeping, Twenty years of the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations: Progress, problems and prospects