Peter Jull is a Canadian

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and

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who has specialised and advised in Commonwealth constitutional politics, particularly in relation to peoples

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to Canada and AustraliaAustralian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies web page
Accessed 12 October 2008.

Canadian period

From 1968 to 1980, Jull worked in the Canadian Privy Council Office's Federal-Provincial Relations Office as assistant secretary to the Prime Minister's cabinet committee on constitutional and other national issues, and as adviser on the Constitution vis-à-vis northern territories and indigenous peoples. He was also cabinet secretary in the province of

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...

, 1976–77, during the formation of a new provincial government's cabinet business system. Since 1980, Jull has been an adviser to many official and non-governmental entities, writing many reports, articles, and papers. He worked, for instance, as political and constitutional adviser to international, national, and regional

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organisations from 1980 to 1987, including heading the secretariat supporting the Nunavut constitutional project, and working in the Inuit constitutional team which won significant national constitutional amendments in the 1980-83 period.

Australian work

Since 1987, in Australia, he has worked as a consultant to indigenous official bodies and NGOs, and federal and state government entities. He has continued to act as a consultant to governments and indigenous NGOs in Canada and the northern hemisphere. He joined the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in 2004. Prior to that, he was Adjunct Associate Professor and course lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies,

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

, and earlier Senior Research Fellow at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

's North Australia Research Unit in Darwin.

Publications

* Jull, Peter
"Nunavut or None of it?"
''Arena Magazine'' No. 36. (Aug-Sep 1998) pp 21–22. Accessed 16 February 2009.

References

External links

Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies web page
Accessed 12 October 2008.
Yukon College web page links to some Peter Jull publications
Accessed 16 February 2009. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian academics {{polisci-bio-stub