Marty is the author of 'The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding' (2025), the illustrated novel 'Locked On! The Seventh and Most Illegal in the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy' (2018), based on climate activism at Leard Forest and Bentley, NSW, and 'Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance' (2013, Palgrave Macmillan), among other books.
Marty has published widely on nonviolence issues, including women in activism, recent developments in nonviolence, artistic activism, Australian eco-pax and social justice movements, nonviolence against Nazism, fossil fuel divestment and ethical investment.
He is also a parent, long-term activist, exhibiting artist and rivercare worker.
Among many international conferences he has organised is 'Environmental and Sustainable Peace, Social Justice and Creative Activism: a conference celebrating 40 years of Peace Studies', UNE, 1-5 December 2022
Experience
2003–2024
Senior lecturer, University of New England
Education
2010
New England Institute of TAFE NSW, Diploma of Fine Arts
2006
UNE, PhD
1992
UNE, Grad. Dip. Ed.
1985
University of Sydney, BA
Publications
2025
The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding, Anthem
2024
The Bendigo Three: The Defence of Duress for Nonviolent Climate Activism , New Community
2023
A Sustainable Peace': an edited special edition , Social Alternatives
2022
Women and Nonviolent Resistance to Nazism in WWII: Media, Sabotage, Smuggling and Hiding , Social Alternatives
2022
Women and Nonviolent Resistance to WWII Nazism, Social Alternatives
2022
Nonviolence and Sustainability: An Indivisible Connection, Sustainability
2022
David Branagan, Amongst Australia's Foremost Geologists, Sydney Morning Herald
2021
Collaborative wilderness preservation and the Franklin River campaign , Routledge
2021
Women in Environmental Nonviolent Action (chapter), Palgrave Macmillan
2021
Reimagining wilderness and the wild in Australia in the wake of bushfires , Routledge
2021
Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence, Routledge
2020
Tintin: From Violent, Communist-Hating Conservative to Radical, International Journal of Comic Art
2018
Locked On! The Seventh and Most Illegal in the Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy, Irene Publishing
2014
Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models', Cambridge Scholars
2013
Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan
2008
'We Shall Never Be Moved: The Art of Australian Nonviolence, Lambert