Email : mangadar@unpar.ac.id
EDUCATION
Doctoral : Social Sciences, Curtin University, Australia (Ph.D)
Master : Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University (M.Si)
Bachelor : International Relations, Gadjah Mada University(Drs)
PROFILE
Mangadar Situmorang has been a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Parahyangan Catholic University (Unpar), Bandung, since 1989. Mangadar served as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Unpar from 2012 to 2015. He then served as Rector of Parahyangan Catholic University for two terms (2015-2023). Previously, he was assigned as Director of PACIS (Parahyangan Center for International Studies) in 1995 and 2009, Deputy Dean for Student Affairs from 1998 to 2001 and for Academic Affairs from 2001 to 2002.
Mangadar completed his undergraduate degree in International Relations at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta in 1988 and then completed a Master’s program in Political Science at the same university in 1994. He continued his doctoral studies in Australia on an AUSAid scholarship at Flinders University, SA for one year (2003) and completed his studies in 2007-2008 at Curtin University, WA. In 2004, he had the opportunity to participate in a research fellowship and internship at INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, sponsored by the Chevening Award, British Council. He undertook a postdoctoral program at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, in 2010 with the support of the Endeavors Awards, Australia.
Mangadar is very interested in issues of international relations and politics that are closely related to domestic social and political issues. In his thesis to complete his bachelor’s degree, for example, Mangadar chose the topic “The victory of Margarethe Tacher’s Conservative Party, supported by Britain’s victory over Argentina in the Falkland/Malvinas conflict.” Meanwhile, the patterns and dynamics of international aid regimes became the topic of his thesis when completing his Master’s program. Furthermore, his doctoral dissertation research and writing was on “International Humanitarian Intervention in Intrastate Conflicts.” The case studies were Indonesia, related to the conflicts in East Timor, Aceh, and Maluku. In response to these three cases of conflict that resulted in humanitarian tragedies, the international community demonstrated different attitudes and actions in implementing humanitarian intervention. His doctoral dissertation has been published under the title “International Humanitarian Intervention in Intrastate Conflicts” (Giessen: Johannes-Hermann, 2009).
In addition to teaching and conducting research on Conflict Resolution, International Organizations, and Indonesian Politics, Mangadar actively writes for academic journals and newspapers and is a member of the Association of International Relations Scholars (AIHI), the Community of East Asia Scholars (CEAS), and the Academic Forum for Peaceful Papua. His research interests include Peace and Conflict Studies, Humanitarian Intervention, Indonesian Politics, and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy.
COURSES
- Indonesia’s Foreign Policy
- Domestic Politics of Indonesia
PUBLICATION
