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140 Professor W.Andy Knight took up his current post as Director of the Institute of International Relations St. Augustine Campus The University of the West Indiesin January 2013on secondment from the University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada. Throughout Professor Knights career his main focus of research has been on the United Nations system Global Governance and the evolution of multilateralism. His recent research has spanned a wide area including female suicide terrorism home grown terrorism child protection and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the new global norm of the Responsibility to Protect. Publications and Writings He has published or co-published 13 peer-reviewed books and monographs in excellent well regarded presses and he currently has five books in Press. Global Politics a book co-written with Tom Keating is widely used in universities and colleges across Canada the US and the UK and has done so well that the publisher has commissioned Professor Knight to a second edition with his co- editor. The second edition is in the final stages of completion with the publication date set for spring 2016. One of his recent co-edited volumes Building Sustainable Peace also with Tom Keating was published by the United Nations University Press in collaboration with the University of Alberta Press and has been adopted widely in Peace and Conflict courses at several universities around the globe. Two of Professor Knights books on the United Nations are used frequently as primary or supplemental texts in international organi- zation and international law courses worldwide and are quoted heavily by international organizations and legal scholars. Professor Knight has had over 65 research papers published as chapters in significant scholarly books dealing with such subjects as female suicide terrorism peace building the Responsibility to Protect international law Canadian multilateralism and foreign policy arms embargoes economic sanctions Caribbean security regionalismthe United Nations and international securitymilitary interoperability Canada-US relations civil-military relations the future of the UN Security Councilto name a few.His research work is also found in about 35 articles published in several of the leading international peer-reviewed journals such as African Journal of Political Science and International Relations African Security Etudes Internationale Global Governance Global Responsibility to Protect International Relations of the Asia-Pacific International Social Science Journal Third World Quarterly Journal of Constitutional Studies Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict Latin American Politics and Society McGill International Review Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Religious Studies and Theology and Spaces of Identity. Professor Knight has written several book reviews for major academic and policy journals and has presented over 100 research papers at conferences and workshops in Europe Asia North and South America and the Caribbean. As a principal investigator or collaboratorProfessor Knight has received grants to date in excess of Can 8 million TT47 million. These grants come from a variety of granting bodies e.g. the Qatar Foundation the Worldwide Universities Network United Nations University the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights the Alberta Centre for Child Family and Commu- nity Researchthe Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada the International Development Research Centre and the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Prepared- ness.He has been awarded several major grants from the Alberta Government the Canadian International Development Agency CIDA the Canadian Consortium on Human Security CCHS the Killam Fund and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada SSHRC for a research project dealing with Children and Armed Conflict Impact Protection Rehabilitation. Conferences for that project were held in collaboration with the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre KAIPTC in Ghana the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Alberta. Earlier phases of this project were funded by the UNU. The website for the project is httpwww.arts.ualberta.cachildrenandwar. Exploring New Areas of Research Recent research funding from SSHRC has allowed Professor Knight to carry out research on Female Suicide Terrorism with Tanya Narozhna of the University of Winnipeg.The results of that research will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2015. His induction in 2011 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada FRSC demonstrates the recognition which his work has received not only in Canada but internationally. The FRSC is the highest honour that can be bestowed on an academic in Canada. In the citation for this awardthe Royal Society viewed Knight as a world leader in research on the study of international organiza- tionsglobal governance and human security.This honour recog- nized the impactful prolific and innovative nature of his research and his public intellectualism. Since coming to The UWI Professor Knight has been working on a number of major research projects. The most important one SOCIAL SCIENCES Professor of International Relations Director Institute of International Relations The University of the West Indies and Professor Department of Political Science University of Alberta Tel 868 662 2002 ext. 2010 E-mail andy.knightsta.uwi.edu Website httpwww.arts.ualberta.caaknight PROF. W. ANDY KNIGHT