{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100446"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100446","attributes":{"code":"FT250100446","administering-organisation":"Macquarie University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Macquarie University","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-06-29","anticipated-end-date":"2030-06-28","grant-summary":"(Dis)Integrating the Past: How old states shape new wars  . This project aims to model how precolonial states have shaped internal borders and the flow-on impacts for conflict using new spatial data on the evolution of boundaries in Asia and Africa from 1750-2020. Discontinuities between precolonial states, colonial regimes, and postcolonial governance have destabilised countries in Australia's region, such as Indonesia, and remain a source of tension. This project provides scientific knowledge on the mechanisms through which precolonial institutions can be peacefully incorporated into stable, democratic governments. Results will help policy makers anticipate the fault lines along which new conflicts in Australia's region might erupt and tools to prevent their onset. ","funding-current":1307002.00,"funding-at-announcement":1279427,"investigators-current":[{"title":"A/Prof","firstName":"Charles","familyName":"Butcher","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-2652-1229 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"A/Prof","firstName":"Charles","familyName":"Butcher","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-2652-1229 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Macquarie University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Macquarie University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4408","name":"Political Science","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440803","name":"Comparative Government and Politics","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440808","name":"International Relations","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"130702","name":"Understanding Asia’s Past","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"230203","name":"Political Systems","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"230305","name":"Peace and Conflict","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Indonesia","United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Numerous conflicts in Australia's near-region - in Myanmar, Indonesia, and India, for example - can be traced to the failure of colonial and postcolonial governments to peacefully (dis)integrate older kingdoms and authorities. Ensuring a stable, peaceful, and democratic region is fundamental to Australia's national interest. For example, in 2023-2024 the Australian Federal Government allocated $4.77 billion in Overseas Development Assistance, the vast majority to assist postcolonial countries in the Indo-Pacific region. To be effective, however, aid strategies and conflict prevention must be targeted to at risk regions and tailored to local contexts. This project will deliver economic and security benefits to Australia by helping policy makers to anticipate the fault lines along which new conflicts in our region may erupt and adapting development and capacity-building assistance to the deeper precolonial and colonial history of many of Australia's neighbours. This project will also deliver cultural benefits. Many of the precolonial states in this project are unfamiliar to most Australians and provide a critical historical context through which to understand not only  politics in the region, but also Australia's colonial and precolonial experience through a comparative lens. This project will raise awareness of our regions' diverse history and how the imprints of \"dead\" states and colonial rule remain relevant today through workshops and popular science publications. "}}}