Distinctive Mission

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Dr Christian Reus-Smit is a Senior Fellow within the Division of Politics and International Relations who was recently appointed Head of the Department of International Relations. He outlines his future research program and plans for the Department to Robert Hefner.
Author(s): Robert Hefner

The Traditions of Geography

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Head of the Department of Human Geography. The Department has a diverse and dynamic brief, focusing on rural, urban and regional development, and contemporary and geographic theory, as well as the major Land Management Project dealing with farming systems, food and security in Papua New Guinea. Katherine Gibson talks with Maxine McArthur about the research challenge ahead.
Author(s): Maxine McArthur

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

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Peter Fuller explores with Professor Des Ball the background and impressive record of the publishing program of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre within the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Professor Ball outlines the key role the publications play in informing public debate on strategic and defence issues and giving background to policy advice the Centre provides to government and the private sector.
Author(s): Peter Fuller

An Uneasy Relationship

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Emeritus Professor Maev O'Collins is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change. She has long been interested in social development policy and planning issues in the South Pacific generated as a result of her time as Professor of Anthropology and Sociology in Papua New Guinea. Jan Borrie talks to her about her career and her new book, An Uneasy Relationship: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia, to be published later this year by Pandanus Books.
Author(s): Jan Borrie

Community Resolution of Conflict

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Jennifer Moran talks to Dr Sinclair Dinnen about his interest in the notion of restorative justice and the soon-to-be-published book he has edited -- A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands.
Author(s): Jennifer Moran