PRC 2023

Pacific Research Colloquium
Each year the Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) at the Australian National University (ANU) brings together early career social science researchers from the Pacific for an intensive workshop series.
  • Pacific
Young Kanak, Lifou, Loyalty Islands 2018 (Nic Maclellan)
Wed, 4 Sep - Thu, 5 Sep 2024

State of the Pacific 2024

Please note that this is a hybrid event. Please register on this page in Zoom Events, for both in-person and online attendance.
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Dr Transform Aqorau at a DPA seminar
by DPA

Pacific Visitors Program
The Pacific Visitors Program is designed to give researchers from Melanesia, the wider Pacific and Timor Leste a short term scholarship to conduct research and writing at ANU.
  • Pacific
People on a boat in Papua New Guinea
by PXhere

State of the Pacific
A Pacific Research Program flagship event, every two years State of the Pacific (SOTP) brings together leading academics, policymakers, community leaders, civil society representatives & other experts
  • Pacific
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An election observer walking to the Savo polling station (photo credit Stephanie Russo)

Observing the 2024 elections in Solomon Islands
Small boats, 4WDs and walking long distances to reach remote communities is all part of the job for the 15 teams of ANU-SINU election observers in Solomon Islands’ 12th general elections in April 2024
  • Pacific
Oceanic Diplomacy DPA

Pacific Research Fellowship
The Pacific Research Fellowships are offered through a competitive process to academic researchers from the Pacific for a period of 12-18 months to conduct a program of research and writing at the ANU
  • Pacific
PASI

Pacific Research Program
The Pacific Research Program generates and disseminates independent Pacific-focused research as a regional public good.
  • Pacific
Pip
Thu, 31 Oct 2024

A transformative blue economy? Discourse, hegemony and passive revolution in Oceania

DPA Seminar Series
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The photos of three women spliced together, side by side. Maria Tanyag, Siobhan McDonnell and Sofia Samper Carro
DECRA winners, left to right: Maria Tanyag, Siobhan McDonnell and Sofia Samper Carro

Outstanding CAP researchers win DECRA funding
Exceptional academics from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific win lucrative early career research funding to support their significant projects.
  • Academic
  • Archaeology
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Public policy
  • International relations
A family from the CAP graduations standing outdoors holding flowers and smiling
A family from the CAP graduations standing outdoors holding flowers and smiling

Stepping into the future: Celebrating mid-year graduations at ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Students from the Australian National University come together in joyous celebration as they reach the culmination of their fulfilling academic journeys this July.
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Political science
  • Security
  • International relations
  • Diplomacy
  • Development
  • Culture
  • Climate Change
Religious dialogue lecture
Wed, 30 Aug 2023

Challenges of Political and Religious Dialogue
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Pacific Islanders
Thu, 22 Feb 2024

From ‘Our Sea of Islands’ to the ‘Blue Pacific Continent’: Stewarding Pacific Regionalism Now and into the Future

Join us to explore the ongoing development and challenges of Pacific regionalism over the past decade.
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Kevin Pullen
Thu, 30 May 2024

Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and the Partial Implementation of the Bougainville Peace Agreement

Join DPA Doctoral Candidate Kevin Pullen as he presents his Thesis Proposal Review on the partial implementation of the BPA.
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Climate Change
Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Partnerships for Climate Crisis Resilience

Please join PhD candidate Lauren Bland as she provides an update during her research journey.
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Security in the Pacific
Mon, 5 Feb 2024

Rethinking the Boe Declaration and Security in the Pacific

Please join PhD candidate Ms Leituala Kuiniselani Tago-Elisara as she provides an update during her research journey.
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Graduates celebrating at Ritsumeikan University, Japan

CAP celebrates graduation ceremony at Ritsumeikan University for dual degree program
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and Ritsumeikan University celebrate the graduating students from their unique undergraduate dual degree program.
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Student
Suzanne O’Neill
by DPA
Mon, 24 Jul 2023

The Idea of Ownership: The Flaws in the Samaritan’s Dilemma
Suzanne O’Neill examines the influence of the idea of ownership on development partnerships in two Pacific countries, Samoa and Kiribati.
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PNGDB

Revitalizing the PNG Dictionary of Biography – applications now opened
DPA is looking for submissions to participate in the PNG Dictionary of Biography Project. Applications close on 30 April.
  • Pacific
Conflict resolution through constitution-making
Tue, 26 Sep 2023

Conflict Resolution through Constitution-making: Insights from Asia and the Pacific

Professorial Lecture Series
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Mercy Masta
Fri, 31 May 2024

Approaches to Engaging Men in Women's Leadership in the Pacific

Join Dr Mercy Masta as she will explore strategies for involving men in supporting women's leadership in the Pacific.
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Americans in the Pacific
Wed, 29 May 2024

The Pacific Plunge: America in the Pacific

Join us to explore the ongoing evolution of America's engagement in the Pacific.
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ISA 2024

Relationality from the Pacific Perspective: Two DPA scholars attended ISA 2024
DPA members Dr George Carter and Henrietta McNeill attended the 2024 conference of the oldest interdisciplinary association dedicated to understanding international, transnational and global affairs.
  • Pacific
Fiji
Access to information, archival outreach on Rotuma Island 2015. Courtesy of the National Archives of Fiji
Fri, 14 Jun 2024

History of Ignorance: A History of the Belittling of Modern Pacific Knowledge

Please join PhD candidate Opeta Alefaio as he provides an update during his research journey.
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Islands of Hope: Pan-Pacific Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific

Islands of Hope: Pan-Pacific Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific
In the Pacific, as elsewhere, indigenous communities live with the consequences of environmental mismanagement and over-exploitation but rarely benefit from the short-term economic profits.
  • Pacific
  • Resources
  • Economic Development
  • Indigenous Peoples
Getty Images / Hagen Hopkins
Getty Images / Hagen Hopkins
Tue, 24 Oct 2023

He aha ō tātou? Understanding the 2023 New Zealand election and its impact

Join our panel discussion about the 2023 New Zealand election and its impact.
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Past Pacific Research Fellows
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  • Pacific
Pacific states and peoples inside global climate change negotiations (UNFCCC COP): from consensus, coherence to ‘climate updated’
Thu, 19 Oct 2023

Pacific states and peoples inside global climate change negotiations

Pacific states and peoples inside global climate change negotiations (UNFCCC COP): from consensus, coherence to ‘climate updated’
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France Pacific
Fri, 5 Jul 2024

France dans le Pacifique

French territories in the Pacific Ocean are often under-analysed in Anglophone settings.
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Athau
Thu, 21 Mar 2024

International Politics and Construction of Climate Security by Small Island Developing States: Maldives and Samoa

Please join PhD candidate Athaulla Rasheed as he presents his pre-submission seminar.
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Transform

SINU Vice Chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau visits DPA
SINU Vice Chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau visits DPA to discuss ongoing research collaboration between the two national universities.
  • Pacific
  • Development
Photo of Geejay Milli
Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Women’s Political Participation in Government Structures in Bougainville and the Motu Koita Assembly

Please join PhD candidate Geejay Milli as she provides an update during her research journey.
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Lee Brentnall
Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Improving Access to Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology After Amputation in the Pacific Region

Please join PhD candidate Lee Brentnall as she presents her research proposal.
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ABC Pacific Beat Podcast
ABC Pacific Beat Podcast

Why is the Commonwealth so popular, despite its colonial legacy?
Political analyst, Sala Dr George Carter from the ANU says the Commonwealth has made positive impact for member states, offering development, democratic and humanitarian support to countries.
  • Pacific
Fishing For Success: Lessons in Pacific Regionalism

Fishing For Success: Lessons in Pacific Regionalism
A personal account, in which Dr Aqorau describes the journey of the countries belonging to the Parties of the Nauru Agreement (the PNA) in fighting for control of their tuna resources.
  • Pacific
  • Resources
Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960-1975

Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960-1975
Australians in Papua New Guinea, provides a history of the late Australian years in Papua New Guinea through the eyes of thirteen Australian and four Papua New Guineans.
  • Pacific
  • Development
  • Health
  • Governance and regulation
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Boyer Prize 2022 goes to Dr Denghua Zhang
Zhang's article ‘China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries’ has won the revered Boyer Prize for 2022.
  • Pacific
  • Security
Siaosi Gavet
Image: Siaosi Gavet
Thu, 8 Jun 2023

Relocation experiences of young Pacific, New Zealand NRL athletes to Australia
Join PhD candidate Siaosi Gavet as he explores the experiences of Pacific/New Zealand NRL players who migrate to Australia.
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Cover pages of the books to be launched at the event
by DPA
Tue, 25 Jul 2023

A Voyage Through the Pacific: Triple Book Launch
We cordially invite you to an evening celebrating the highly anticipated launches of three extraordinary publications.
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Pacific Women in Politics book cover 2to1

Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands
Women are significantly underrepresented in politics in the Pacific Islands, given that only one in twenty Pacific parliamentarians are female, compared to one in five globally.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Gender
  • Women’s leadership and political participation
The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World

The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World: Control, Self-Preservation and Continuity
This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) engagement with the outside world.
  • Pacific
  • Social movements
  • History
  • Indigenous Peoples
Understanding Oceania Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University

Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University
This book celebrates the collaboration of USP with The Australian National University in research, doctoral training, teaching and joint activities.
  • Pacific
  • Student
A Mission Divided Race, Culture and Colonialism in Fiji’s Methodist Mission

A Mission Divided: Race, Culture and Colonialism in Fiji’s Methodist Mission
This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji.
  • Pacific
  • Religious studies
  • Labour Migration
  • Culture
  • Human Rights
Talking it Through Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia

Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia
This book provides crucial insights both into how practices and beliefs of sorcery and witchcraft are playing out in contemporary Melanesia, and the types of interventions.
  • Pacific
  • Restorative Justice
  • Terrorism & Violent Extremism
  • Religious studies
The Bougainville Referendum: Law, Administration and Politics

The Bougainville Referendum: Law, Administration and Politics
This book presents an analysis of legal, administrative and political issues arising from the complex arrangements for the conduct of the Bougainville referendum.
  • Pacific
  • Sovereignty and independence
  • Indigenous Peoples
State and Society in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2021

State and Society in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2021
A collection of papers written between 2001 and 2021, which update the story of political and social development in Papua New Guinea in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
  • Pacific
  • Public policy
  • Security
  • Economic Development
  • Development
Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development

Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations
Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development engages with the possibilities and pitfalls of the increasingly popular notion of hybridity.
  • Aid and Development
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Governance and regulation
Greed and Grievance: Ex-Militants' Perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands, 1998-2003

Greed and Grievance: Ex-Militants' Perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands, 1998-2003
This work offers important new perspectives on the violence and unrest that gripped Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known as the Ethnic Tension.
  • Pacific
  • Terrorism & Violent Extremism
  • Human Rights
Kastom, Property and Ideology: Land Transformations in Melanesia

Kastom, Property and Ideology: Land Transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and today.
  • Pacific
  • Economic Development
  • Indigenous Peoples
Light Intervention: Lessons from Bougainville

Light Intervention: Lessons from Bougainville
Regan examines the ideal conditions for light international intervention and analyzes the remarkably successful Bougainville peace process.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • International organisations
Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why Some Subside and Others Don’t

Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why Some Subside and Others Don’t
This book takes up this crucial contemporary issue in the study of war and peace by examining fifteen intrastate conflicts in the Asia-Pacific.
  • Pacific
  • Restorative Justice
  • Terrorism & Violent Extremism
  • Development
From Election to Coup in Fiji The 2006 campaign and its aftermath

From Election to Coup in Fiji: The 2006 campaign and its aftermath
This book provides a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the lead-up to, the outcome and the aftermath of Fiji’s historic 2006 election.
  • Pacific
  • Democracy and elections
  • Culture
The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor
The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Restorative Justice
  • Terrorism & Violent Extremism
  • Sovereignty and independence
  • Democracy and elections
  • International organisations
Policy Making and Implementation Studies from Papua New Guinea

Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea
This volume examines the record of policy making and implementation in Papua New Guinea since independence.
  • Aid policy
  • Pacific
  • Public policy
  • International organisations
  • Governance and regulation
Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
This volume brings together a number of authors with deep experience of the Southern Highlands to examine the underlying dynamics of resource development and conflict in the province.
  • Pacific
  • Security
  • Resources
  • Economic Development
  • Governance and regulation
A New Era? Timor-Leste after the UN

A New Era? Timor-Leste after the UN
Collectively, the chapters provide a set of critical reflections on recent political, economic and social developments in Timor-Leste.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Economic Development
  • Democracy and elections
  • International organisations
Election 2007 The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea

Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea
This volume provides an analysis of Papua New Guinea’s general election in 2007, drawing on the work of a domestic monitoring team and addressing key issues.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Elections and electoral politics
  • Democracy and elections
Politics, Development and Security in Oceania

Politics, Development and Security in Oceania
This book explores these themes of governance, development and security that signal both continuity and change in the Pacific’s pattern of islands.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Public policy
  • Social movements
  • International organisations
Pillars and Shadows Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands

Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands
This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Terrorism & Violent Extremism
  • Sovereignty and independence
  • International relations
Political Life Writing in the Pacific Reflections on Practice

Political Life Writing in the Pacific: Reflections on Practice
This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Public policy
  • Democracy and elections
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Tue, 2 Aug 2022

Career pathways: Meet potential employers

Does international affairs fascinate you? Gaining insights from industry representatives can help you clarify your career aspirations and make informed choices.
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The Boy from Boort Remembering Hank Nelson

The Boy from Boort: Remembering Hank Nelson
This book is a highly readable tribute to Hank Nelson, written by those who knew him well, including his students, and also contains wide-ranging works by Hank himself.
  • Academic
  • Pacific
  • Obituary
A Time Bomb Lies Buried Fiji’s Road to Independence, 1960-1970

A Time Bomb Lies Buried: Fiji’s Road to Independence, 1960-1970
A Time Bomb Lies Buried discusses the debates which took place in Suva and London as well as the politics and processes which led Fiji to independence in 1970 after 96 years of colonial rule.
  • Pacific
  • Sovereignty and independence
  • Culture
From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time' Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities

From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time': Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities
The book examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the current moment generates in West Papua, where the persistent ‘stone-age’ image meets the practices and ideologies of the ‘real-time’.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Social movements
  • Culture
  • Field School
Governance Challenges for PNG and the Pacific Islands

Governance Challenges for PNG and the Pacific Islands
A very resourceful book it draws on the perspectives and experiences of senior people from the Government, Diplomatic core and Civil society of Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands development.
  • Pacific
  • Economic Development
  • Governance and regulation
The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji A Coup to End All Coups?

The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to End All Coups?
This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Democracy and elections
  • History
Cautious New Approach China's Growing Trilateral Aid Cooperation

A Cautious New Approach: China's Growing Trilateral Aid Cooperation
Explainning why Chinese actors choose to engage in aid cooperation with traditional donors in the Asia-Pacific.
  • Aid and Development
  • Aid policy
  • Pacific
Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands

Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands
Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands examines a crisis moment in recent Solomon Islands history.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Democracy and elections
  • Governance and regulation
  • Foreign Interference
Old tapes for digitisation
by Nick Thieberger
Tue, 8 Aug 2023

Digitisation for Pacific cultural materials
Nick talks about the role of Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures in preserving Pacific cultural material.
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Civic Insecurity Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea

Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has a complex ‘law and order’ problem and an entrenched epidemic of HIV. This book explores their interaction joint challenges and opportunities—most fundamentally for civic security.
  • Pacific
  • Security
  • Health
Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea
Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Many aspects of agriculture in PNG are described in this data-rich book.
  • Pacific
  • Economic Development
State and Society in Papua New Guinea The First Twenty-Five Years

State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Years
This volume brings together a number of papers written by the author between 1971 and 2001 which address issues of political and economic development and social change in Papua New Guinea.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Sovereignty and independence
  • Economic Development
  • Governance and regulation
Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia

Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia
This collection gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia.
  • Aid and Development
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Religious studies
  • Health
  • Gender
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands State, Society and Governance in Melanesia

Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia
This volume examine Pacific globalisation and governance from a wide range of perspectives.
  • Pacific
  • Politics
  • Labour Migration
  • Culture
  • International organisations
  • Governance and regulation