Conferences and Workshops: 2007

10th Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA) Conference
7-8 December 2007
Venue: Port Vila Vanuatu

• Conference Summary
• Conference Photo Essay
• PIPSA2007 Program Guide
• Conference Papers
  • Kathryn Hay:
    Governance in the Pacific: The Shaping of a regional human rights mechanism
  • Lopeti Senituli:
    SECURITY, STABILITY AND GOVERNANCE IN THE PACIFIC: WHERE THE “KAVA” STILL HAS MEANING!
  • Frederic Bessat:
    Environmental Change, Security and Governance for Small Pacific Island States
  • Haruo Nakagawa:
    Is there a Governance-Growth Nexus in the Pacific?
  • Helena Cook:
    Ethnic Minority Representation in New Zealand: Pacific Island MPs in the New Zealand parliament
  • Jane Strachan and Rachel Saunders1 with Liku Jimmy and Grayleen Lapi:
    Ni Vanuatu women and educational leadership development
  • Joanne Wallis:
    Roots and routes: an analysis of how globalisation poses a development paradox for Tonga
  • Jonathan Schultz:
    Which governance in Australian policy?
  • Jone C. Vukikomoala:
    In the Shade of Mediocrity-Shaping an Agenda of Relevance
  • Lynda Newland:
    Religion and Politics: The Christian Churches and the 2006 Coup in Fiji
  • MATHIAS CHAUCHAT:
    COLLEGIAL POLICY AGAINST DISORDER
  • Matthew Allen:
    Greed and grievance: the role of economic agendas in the conflict in Solomon Islands
  • Molly Kennedy
    Maori governance in a new electoral environments
  • Mosmi Bhim
    Opposition and Media’s Role in Holding Fiji Government Accountable
  • Nancy Krause and David Hegarty
    Indicators of Governance and Stability – Characterising the Pacific?
  • Natalie Baird
    To Ratify or Not to Ratify? An assessment of the case for ratification of international human rights treaties in the Pacific
  • Patrick Kaiku
    Security and stability in Papua New Guinea: the case for gender equality in Papua New Guinea’s political and decision-making arena
  • Ron Crocombe
    FROM THE PACIFIC ISLANDS TO THE ASIAPACIFIC The Shifting Focus of Regional Organization
  • Scott Hook
    The Economic Performance of PI Economies
  • Scott Kroeker
    CONSIDERING OCEANIA’S FUTURES: A Case for Specific Alternative Futures Methodologies in Political Research of the Pacific Islands
  • Shazia Usman and Katrina Ma'u
    Female election candidates and the Media: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Male and Female Election Candidates in the Fiji Times
  • Tim Anderson
    Australia's regional interventions: the antinomies of 'good governance'
  • Tutii Chilton
    The Affects of the Foreign Flower
  • Volker Boege and Miranda Forsyth
    Customary conflict resolution in a state environment – cases from Vanuatu
  • Anne Brown
    Gender and Customary Governance in Vanuatu

Executive Power and the Battle for Parliamentary Confidence in the Pacific Islands
21-23 September 2007
Venue: University of the South Pacific (Emalus Campus) Port Vila Vanuatu South Pacific

• Conference report and participant list
• Conference programme and information guide
• Conference papers

The Fiji Coup – Six Months On
5 June 2007
Workshop organised by the SSGM and the Pacific Centre
Venue: The Australian National University

• Workshop Program
• Mythic Constitutionalism: Whither Fiji's Course in June, 2007? by Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi
• Resolving The Current Crisis in Fiji – A Personal Perspective by Jioji Kotobalavu