Dr. Peter Balint

Biography

Peter Balint is an Associate Professor in the International & Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. His research primarily focuses on principles of diversity, respect, toleration, neutrality, and social cohesion. He has authored significant works including 'Debating Multiculturalism: Minority Rights?' (Oxford University Press, 2022) and 'Toleration: Traditional Liberalism Contemporary Diversity' (Oxford University Press, 2017). Balint was awarded the APSA CRISP Prize in 2018 and has held notable Visiting Fellowships at the University of Manchester (MANCEPT), University of Ottawa, and the Morell Centre for Toleration at the University of York. He served as a Senior Research Fellow at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main on the project 'Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice – Applied Global' during 2010-11. He is a founding member of the Global Justice Network and regularly serves as an editor for the journal 'Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric'. Balint supervises potential postgraduate research in political theory and philosophy, as well as topics related to multiculturalism, including military sociology and diversity.

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