Biography

Mark Winward is a Sessional Instructor at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2019. Mark’s research focuses on variations in the form and frequency of mass violence. This includes the relationship between detention and execution, the interaction between security forces and civil society organizations, and how physical geography conditions patterns of violence. Mark pursues these questions especially in the context of the 1965-66 Indonesian Mass Killings.

Research Interests

Primary: Comparative Politics, Southeast Asian Studies, International Relations

Secondary: Genocide, Repression, Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Toronto (2019)

M.A. in Political Science, Memorial University (2012)

B.A. in Political Science, University of Western Ontario (2009)

Courses

PCJ260Y1Y: Introduction to Peace, Conflict and Justice, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto

POL388H1F: Politics and Government of Southeast Asia, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Publications

Winward, Mark. 2021. “Intelligence Capacity and Mass Violence: Evidence from Indonesia”. Comparative Political Studies 54(3-4): 553-584

Winward, Mark. 2018. “Capture from Below: Civil-Military Relations During Indonesia’s Anticommunist Violence, 1965-66”. Indonesia 106