The AIIA congratulates Morten B. Pedersen of UNSW Canberra for winning the 2013 Boyer Prize.

His paper, ‘How to promote human rights in the world’s most repressive states: lessons from Myanmar’, published in Volume 67, Issue 2, 2013, was judged to be original and innovative and likely to have a lasting impact.

The Boyer Prize was launched by the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2012 to recognise the best article published each year in the Australian Journal of International Affairs (AJIA). The AJIA is edited by Professor Nick Bisley,  Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University. The journal publishes high quality scholarly research on international relations of the Asia-Pacific, globalisation and the diplomacy of  great powers. The journal is published five times a year by Routledge Taylor and Francis.