Lina Alexandra currently serves as the Head of the Department of International Relations, Centre of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. Alexandra joined CSIS in September 2002. Her research focuses on international peacekeeping and peacebuilding, human rights, human security, and conflict resolution.

She also holds the position of Coordinator of the CSIS Myanmar Initiative Programme. She earned a Master of International Studies in peace and conflict resolution in 2006 and a PhD in 2020, both from the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia.

Research Interest: Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, Human Security, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, Indonesian Foreign Policy, International Security, Human Rights and prevention of mass violence in the Southeast Asian region

Regional Concentration: Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific

Selected Bibliography

The Indonesian Sharing-based Approach to Peacebuilding, in Conflict Prevention and

Peacebuilding in Asia: Lessons in South-South Cooperation edited by Anthea Mulakala (KDI, 2019).

Perceptions on Human Security: An Indonesian View, in Human Security Norms in East Asia

edited by Yoichi Mine, et.al. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Offering Support and Sharing Experiences: Indonesia’s Approach to Peacebuilding, in Rising

Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold? edited by Charles T. Call and Cedric de Coning (Palgrave

Macmillan (Springer), 2017).

[Co-author with Marc Lanteigne] New Actors and Innovative Approaches to Peacebuilding: The Case of Myanmar, in Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold? edited by Charles T. Call and Cedric de Coning (Palgrave Macmillan (Springer), 2017)

The Incipient Development of ASEAN: A Chance for Mutual Learning”, Stop Mass Atrocities: Advancing EU Cooperation with Other International Organizations edited by Luis Peral and Nicoletta Pirozzi. IAI Research Papers (Roma: Edzioni Nuova Cultura, 2013).

Indonesia and the Responsibility to Protect, Pacific Review, 25:1 (March 2012).

Enhancing the Capacities of State and Regional Institution in Transforming Responsibility to Protect From Words to Deeds: A Case-Study of Indonesia and ASEAN in Norms of Protection: Responsibility to Protect, Protection of Civilians and Their Interaction edited by Angus Francis, Vesselin Popovski, and Charles Sampford. (Tokyo: UNU Press, 2012).