Dr Noel Morada

Director (Regional Diplomacy and Capacity Building) Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

n.morada@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Dr Noel M. Morada is former Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. In 2005, he was commissioned by the Canadian Embassy in Manila to undertake research on responses to R2P in Southeast Asia from which a R2P Roadmap in the region was published and has served as a guide to the work of the Centre. He has been engaging stakeholders in Southeast Asia as part of his work in the Centre and has conducted lectures and seminars on R2P for government officials, civil society groups, and academia in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand. He is an advocate of a bottom-up approach in building awareness and constituency around R2P in the region, focusing on the importance of Pillar 1 (prevention) and Pillar 2 (capacity building) of the norm. He has also delivered lectures on atrocities prevention and participated in various seminars, conferences, and public forums in Australia and Southeast Asia, as well as in New York, Geneva, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, and Costa Rica among others. He has also organised and delivered lectures in education and training seminars for diplomats in Africa (between 2011-2013). In 2018, he delivered lectures on R2P and atrocities prevention in training seminars in Bangkok in cooperation with Mahidol University's Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies; and in Auschwitz, Poland under the Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar on Genocide Prevention organised by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation.

Apart from his research and advocacy on R2P, he is also involved in regional security research and dialogue specifically dealing with terrorism, maritime security, and non-traditional security issues in Southeast Asia. He has also done research and publication on ASEAN external relations, the ASEAN Regional Forum and cooperative security in the Asia Pacific, as well as human security and human development in the region.

Publications

Book Chapters (21)

Journal Articles (13)

Book Chapters

Morada, Noel M. (2023). Myanmar. Encyclopedia of Asian Politics. (pp. 246-253) edited by Alexander C. Tan and Dennis F. Quilala. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Morada, Noel M. and Caballero-Anthony, Mely (2022). Conclusion: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Atrocity Prevention in East Asia. COVID-19 and Atrocity Prevention in East Asia. (pp. 176-181) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003307471-9

Caballero-Anthony, Mely and Morada, Noel M. (2022). Introduction: COVID-19, Responsibility to Protect and Pathways towards Human Security. COVID-19 and Atrocity Prevention in East Asia. (pp. 1-21) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003307471-1

Morada, Noel M. (2020). ASEAN regionalism and capacity-building for atrocities prevention: challenges and prospects. Implementing the responsibility to protect: a future agenda. (pp. 89-108) edited by Cecilia Jacob and Martin Mennecke. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429293795-5

Morada, Noel M. (2019). The Philippines and the South China Sea/ West Philippine sea conflict: challenges and prospects for peace, diplomacy, and external defence capability. From Aquino II to Duterte (2010–2018): change, continuity and rupture. (pp. 265-284) edited by Imelda Deinla and Björn Dressel. Singapore, Singapore: ISEAS Publishing. doi: 10.1355/9789814843294-015

Morada, Noel (2014). Entrenching responsibility to protect in the Asia-Pacific. The globalization of world politics: case studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific. (pp. 23-26) edited by Charles Hawkesly and Nichole Georgiou. South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.

Morada, Noel M. (2014). Ensuring responsibility while implementing under Article 4(h) intervention. Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: Article 4(h) of the African Union Constitutive Act. (pp. 312-324) edited by Dan Kuwali and Frans Viljoen. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingodm: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315852126

Morada, Noel M. (2014). The responsibility to protect: why this evolving norm matters and is here to stay. Debating the Endtimes of Human Rights: Activism and Institutions in a Neo-Westphalian World. (pp. 77-84) edited by Doutje Lettinga and Lars van Troost. Amsterdam, Netherlands: The Strategic Studies Project, Amnesty International Netherlands.

Morada, Noel M. (2013). The Association of Southeast Asian Nations. An institutional approach to the responsibility to protect. (pp. 247-267) edited by Gentian Zyberi. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139567664.015

Morada, Noel M. (2012). Asia and the Pacific. The responsibility to protect: The promise of stopping mass atrocities in our time. (pp. 136-158) edited by Jared Genser, Irwin Cotler, Desmond Tutu and Vaclav Havel. New York, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797769.003.0020

Morada, Noel M. (2012). ASEAN responses to the responsibility to protect: challenges, opportunities and constraints. Responsibility To Protect: From Principle to Practice. (pp. 237-246) edited by Julia Hoffmann and Andre Nollkaemper. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications.

Morada, Noel M. (2011). Political legitimacy in an unconsolidated democracy: The Philippines. Political legitimacy in Asia: New leadership challenges. (pp. 195-216) edited by John Kane, Hui-Chieh Loy and Haig Patapan. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137001474

Morada, Noel M. (2011). ASEAN-US strategic partnership in East Asia community building: Opportunities, risks and constraints. A Pacific nation : Perspectives on the US role in an East Asia community. (pp. 103-132) edited by Mark Borthwick and Tadashi Yamamoto. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Center for International Exchange.

Morada, Noel M (2010). The Philippines. Southeast Asia in a new era : Ten countries, one region in ASEAN. (pp. 159-178) edited by Rodolfo C. Severino, Elspeth Thomson and Mark Hong. Signapore: ISEAS.

Morada, Noel M (2010). The Asean regional forum: Origins and evolution. Cooperative security in the Asia-Pacific : The ASEAN regional forum. (pp. 13-35) edited by Jurgen Haacke and Noel M. Morada. London, .U.K.: Routledge.

Morada, Noel M (2010). The ASEAN Regional Forum and counter-terrorism. Cooperative Security in the Asia Pacific: The ASEAN Regional Forum. (pp. 150-171) edited by Jurgen Haacke and Noel M. Morada. London: Routledge.

Morada, Noel M and Haacke, Jurgen (2010). The ASEAN Regional Forum and cooperative security: Introduction. Cooperative Security in the Asia Pacific: The ASEAN Regional Forum. (pp. 1-12) edited by Jurgen Haacke and Noel M. Morada. London: Routledge.

Morada, Noel M. (2009). The rise of China and regional responses: A Philippine perspective. The rise of China: Responses from Southeast Asia and Japan. (pp. 111-136) edited by Jun Tsunekawa. Tokyo, Japan: National Institute for Defense Studies.

Morada, Noel M. (2008). East Asian community building: Ideas, prospects and opportunities for traditional smoecurity cooperation. Regional security in East Asia: Challenges to cooperation and community building. (pp. 150-170) edited by Aileen S. P. Baviera. Quezon City, Philippines: Asian Centre, University of the Philippines.

Morada, Noel M. (2007). Progress and setbacks in Philippine-US security relations. Controlling arms and terror in the Asia Pacific : After Bali and Baghdad. (pp. 181-193) edited by Marika Vickziany. Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, MA, U.S.A.: Edward Elgar.

Morada, Noel M (2007). Institutionalization of regional order : Between norms and balance of power. Regional Order in East Asia: ASEAN and Japan Perspectives. (pp. 31-53) edited by Jun Tsunekawa and Bōeichō Bōei Kenkyūjo. Tokyo: National Institute for Defense Studies.

Journal Articles

Morada, Noel M. (2023). Responding to atrocities in Myanmar after the February 2021 Coup: options for ASEAN beyond normative and structural constraints. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 26 (2-3), 212-234. doi: 10.1163/18754112-26020007

Jacob, Cecilia and Morada, Noel M. (2023). Hate Speech and Atrocity Prevention in Asia: Patterns, Trends and Strategies. Global Responsibility to Protect, 15 (2-3), 93-106. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-20230001

Morada, Noel M. (2023). Hate Speech and Incitement in Myanmar before and after the February 2021 Coup. Global Responsibility to Protect, 15 (2-3), 1-28. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-20230003

Morada, Noel M. and Caballero-Anthony, Mely (2023). Re-imagining ASEAN and the quest for peace: challenges and prospects for peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and atrocities prevention. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 26 (2-3), 89-96. doi: 10.1163/18754112-26020001

Morada, Noel M. (2021). Myanmar. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 24 (3-4), 428-466. doi: 10.1163/18754112-24030007

Morada, Noel M. (2021). Asean and the Rakhine crisis: Balancing non-interference, accountability, and strategic interests in responding to atrocities in Myanmar. Global Responsibility to Protect, 13 (2-3), 131-157. doi: 10.1163/1875-984X-13020003

Morada, Noel M. (2020). Continuing violence and atrocities in Rakhine since 2017: beyond the outrage, failures of the international community. Global Responsibility to Protect, 12 (1), 64-85. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-01201005

Hunt, Charles T. and Morada, Noel M. (2016). Human protection across regions: learning from norm promotion and capacity building in Southeast Asia and Africa. Global Responsibility to Protect, 8 (2-3), 105-110. doi: 10.1163/1875984x-00803002

Morada, Noel M. (2016). Southeast Asian regionalism, norm promotion and capacity building for human protection: an overview. Global Responsibility to Protect, 8 (2-3), 111-132. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-00803003

Morada, Noel M. (2014). Obituary: Professor Estrella D. Solidum, 1927-2014. Philippine Political Science Journal, 35 (2), 131-133. doi: 10.1080/01154451.2014.971940

Morada, Noel M. (2012). Europe and Southeast Asia: ASEAN-EU interregionalism between pluralist and solidarist societies. Review of European Studies, 4 (3), 89-99. doi: 10.5539/res.v4n3p89

Morada, Noel M. (2009). The ASEAN Charter and the promotion of R2P in Southeast Asia: Challenges and constraints. Global Responsibility to Protect, 1 (2), 185-207. doi: 10.1163/187598409X424298

Morada, Noel M. (2008). ASEAN at 40: Prospects for Community Building in Southeast Asia. Asia - Pacific Review, 15 (1), 36-55. doi: 10.1080/13439000802134043

Areas of research

International Relations

Peace and Conflict Studies