Brooke Jones joined the Centre’s Multiagency Peace and Stabilisation Operations Project at the Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence in May 2011.
Brooke graduated from the Royal Military College in June 1991. She spent 12 years in the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police, including a 6-month deployment in East Timor in 2000.
After leaving the army, Brooke travelled to the United Kingdom where she spent two years editing books for a publishing house before fleeing the cold, sunless world of Aldershot for the Middle East, where she made her home in Damascus, Syria.
Brooke was one of the founding members of the first privately owned English language magazine to be printed in Syria. Syria Today dealt with political, social and economic reform and paved the way for several English language magazines, journals and online publications that sprung up after it. After 4 years as the Managing Editor Brooke returned to Australia for 6 months before realizing she missed her life on the wilder shores, and in 2009 she retuned to Syria as the Chief Editor of an English language cultural, social and historical magazine: What’s On Syria.
Brooke has a degree in Professional Studies (Military History) from the University of New England and in 2012 will commence a Graduate Certificate in Disaster Preparedness and Reconstruction at Newcastle University. Her hobbies are shopping, military history, sport, reading and sailing – with her partner she is working on a plan to sail their 39 foot Beneteau from San Francisco to Australia… sometime soon.