Hipolitus Wangge is a research officer and sessional academic at the School of Culture, History & Language. In 2019, Dr Wangge was a volunteer, assisting the indigenous Papuans who were displaced due to an armed conflict in Nudga, West Papua. He received an Arryman pre-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University with research on civil-military relations in Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea. His book project examines the role of local civil society groups in escalating, maintaining, and resolving a long-running conflict in West Papua. Research Output  Wangge, Hipolitus Ringgi. 2023. “Securitization of Political Conflict in Southeast Asia: Disengaging the Indigenous Audience in West Papua.” Asian Security. Vol. 19, No.3: 207-227.  Wangge, Hipolitus Ringgi and Stephanie Lawson. 2023. “The West Papua Issue in Pacific Regional Politics: Explaining Indonesia’s Foreign Policy Failure.” The Pacific Review. Vol. 36, No. 1: 61-89.  Barter, Shane and Hipolitus Ringgi Wangge. 2022. “Indonesian Autonomies: Explaining Divergent Self-Government Outcomes in Aceh and Papua.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Vol. 52, No. 1: 55-81.  Wangge, Hipolitus Yolisandry and Camellia Webb-Gannon. 2020. “Civilian Resistance and the Failure of the Indonesian Counterinsurgency Campaign in Nduga, West Papua.” Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs. Vol. 42, No. 2: 276–301.  Ringgi Wangge, Hipolitus Yolisandry. (2017). Civil–Military Relations during Transition and Post-Democratization Periods: A View from Southeast Asia, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol. 36, No.2, pp. 137–148.