Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact Details
Social Sciences Temporary Building 31B, Level 2, Room 203
Telephone: (07) 3346 7272
Facsimile: (07) 3346 8796
Email: p.walker2@uq.edu.au
Background
Polly joined ACPACS in 2004. Prior to that she held positions as lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, University of Queensland, and Adjunct Assoc. Prof., Colorado College. She is of Cherokee and Anglo descent.
Qualifications
Ph.D., Conflict Transformation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples (University of Queensland)
MA, Educational Administration/Special Education, highest honors (New Mexico State University)
BA, Elementary and Special Education (New Mexico State University) with highest honors
Professional Activities
- International Peace Research Association
- Just Peace
- Board Member Indigenous Education Institute
- Board Member Community Praxis Co-op
Research Interests
- Epistemic Violence
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Conflict Transformation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
- Decolonisation of research and practice
- Reconciliation
- Indigenous peacemaking/conflict transformation processes
- Role of ceremony in conflict transformation
Representative Publications
- Walker, P.2007, ‘Singing Up Worlds: Ceremony and Conflict Transformation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia and the United States’. Taiwan International Studies Quarterly. Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-22, Summer.
- Walker, P. 2007, "Focus on Diversity: Resolving Conflict in Indigenous Cultures", in eds. Kreitner, Kinicki, & Cole, Fundamentals of Organizational Behaviour: Key Concepts, Skills & Best Practices, 2nd Canadian Edition. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Chapter 9, page 190.
- Walker, P. 2006, ‘Singing a New Song: The Role of Music in Indigenous Strategies of Nonviolent Social Change’, in Nonviolent Alternatives for Social Change, EOLSS.
- Walker, P. 2006, ‘Restoring Balance in Indigenous Peacemaking, perspektive mediation, December.
- Walker, P. 2005, One Heart and A Wrong Spirit, The Religious Society of Friends and Colonial Racism: Religious Society of Friends Backhouse Lecture, Australian Yearly Meeting Monograph, Brisbane, Queensland.
- Walker, P. 2005, ‘Development, Human Security and Peacebuilding within Australia: Issues Regarding Indigenous Australians,’ The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Newsletter, April.
- Walker, P. 2005, ‘Developing Solomon Islands’ style mediation’, ADR bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 10, pp. 181-182.
- Walker, P. 2005, ‘Acknowledging and Reducing Epistemic Violence toward Indigenous People’s Knowledge Systems’, Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific Region Conference Proceedings, The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, March 31-April 3.
- Walker, P. 2004, ‘Decolonizing Conflict Resolution: Addressing the Ontological Violence of Westernization’, American Indian Quarterly, volume 28, No. 3&4.
- Walker, P. 2003, 'Colonizing Research: Academia's Structural Violence Towards Indigenous Peoples', Social Alternatives, Vol. 22, No. 3, Third Quarter, pp. 37-40.
- Walker, P. 2001, ‘Editorial', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol. 29, No. 2., pp. iii-iv.
- Walker, P. 2001, ‘Journeys Around the Medicine Wheel: A story of Indigenous Research in a Western University', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol. 29, No. 2., pp. 19-22.
- Sheehan, N. & Walker, P. 2001, ‘The Purga Project: Indigenous Knowledge Research', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol. 29, No. 2., pp. 11-18.
- Walker, P. 2001, ‘Eldership and wisdom in Native conflict processing', ADR Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 105-107.
- Walker, P. 1999, "Concepts of the self: implications for cross-cultural conflict resolution", Alternative Dispute Resolution Bulletin, vol. 2 No.2.
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