Principal Dispute Resolution Officer, Queensland Human Rights Commission
Dr. Hongoh is a Principal Dispute Resolution Officer with the Queensland Human Rights Commission and a sessional lecturer at T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. Prior to this, Joseph was a sessional lecturer, Peace and Conflict studies at the School of Political Science and International Studes, University of Queensland.
He holds a PhD in Governance and Conflict Management from the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Joseph is an established facilitator, mediator, trainer, and monitoring and evaluation consultant in the area of conflict resolution, peacebuilding and international development.
Joseph is also an interdisciplinary researcher in: State-Society relations in conflict management and resolution, state-building as conflict management, community-based approaches to managing conflicts, and peacebuilding. Joseph was born and raised in Kenya and has had extensive work experience in Africa, Asia and the Pacific including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Rwanda, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia.