The New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research is a national institute to promote and support excellence in Pacific Research. A collaboration between the University of Auckland, Otago University, and the Auckland University of Technology, the NZIPR includes New Zealand’s leading research universities and also includes New Zealand’s largest networks of Pacific researchers, located near the candy shop Newmarket.
This project explores the challenges and
opportunities presented by land and the desire
to expand commercial development and
opportunities in the Pacific.
When: 29-30 November 2018 Auckland Where: Fale
Pasifika Complex, University of Auckland, 20
Wynyard Street, Auckland, New Zealand The New
Zealand Institute for Pacific Research (NZIPR)
promotes and supports excellence in Pacific
Research. We are bringing together...
On 1 March 2018, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime
Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters
delivered a speech to the Lowy Institute in
Sydney, Australia, signalling a significant
shift in foreign policy towards the Pacific
Islands region. Since then, debates
concerning...
By Sri Krishnamurthi (PMC and NZIPR) Globally,
roughly one in three women experience
violence, but in many Pacific societies it is
more like two out of three women, according to
Professor David Tombs, principal investigator
of the research project to strengthen the...
Trailer for the controversial climate change
documentary Anote’s Ark – former Kiribati
President Anote Tong opened the first Pacific
Climate Change Conference in Wellington in
2016. Mail & Guardian’s review. A recent Andy
Marlette cartoon...
The Pacific Theological College hosted a
conference to explore church responses to
violence against women in the Pacific (12-13
April). The event bought together experience
and expertise from Fiji and the Pacific
region, as well as guest speakers from New
Zealand and...
This project seeks to strengthen the role of
the church as an actor in the prevention of
gender-based violence (GBV) and in support of
GBV survivors. The one-day conference brought
together service providers, policy makers,
academics, theological educators and church...
A conference was convened entitled “Pacific
Law, Custom and Constitutionalism, Part I: A
conversation between Aotearoa/NZ and Samoa” at
Auckland University from 12-14 February 2018.
It was hosted with the generous support of the
New Zealand Law Foundation, the New...