Past events
Social Media and the Quality of Freedom of Expression
Since the fall of authoritarian president Suharto in 1998, scholars have debated the nature and quality of democracy that followed his regime. One of the lenses through which scholars...
Working with Legal Pluralism in the Francophone & Anglophone Pacific Islands
Legal pluralism, by which we mean the simultaneous existence of several different legal orders in the same territory, is a reality in many parts of the world including in the Pacific island...
The Monarchy and the Constitution: Tonga's Achievements in Political Reform
The Kingdom of Tonga, which possesses one of the oldest extant constitutions in the world, decided four years ago to make amendments to it that are the most significant in its history. The Monarch...
Reading Arendt in Yangon (can the Rohingya speak?)
Political actors in Myanmar who once found in the language human rights symbolic resources to oppose domination are today turning towards the language of citizens' rights. Intrigued by this trend...
Book Launch: 'Realising Rights: How Regional Organisations Socialise Human Rights' and 'Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History, respectively'
Book Launch: Dr Davies and Dr Glanville question each other about their recently published books, Realising Rights: How Regional Organisations Socialise Human Rights and Sovereignty and...
INTERFET: Reflections on the 1999 East Timor Crisis
Following the vote in favour of self-determination in 1999 chaos engulfed East Timor. Dozens of buildings burned, thousands of people were displaced from their homes and some were injured or...
Timor-Leste After Xanana Gusmão: Challenges for Succession
Xanana Gusmão, Timor-Leste's prime minister and former rebel leader, recently cancelled plans to step down early from his post, announcing instead plans to reshuffle the government's 55-member...
Tep Tok, Reading Between Our Lines
For many Pacific Islander's, a tattoo is a marker of one's cultural identity - a reminder of one's heritage and a visual story to carry on their skin. The art of tattooing has travelled the world...
Reflections: 39 Years of Sovereign Statehood in Papua New Guinea
A Public Lecture to celebrate the 39th anniversary of Independence for Papua New Guinea delivered by His Excellency Charles Lepani, Papua New Guinea's High Commissioner to Australia.
The...
Contentious Islamism: social and political activism in Afghanistan, 2001-2015
Abstract: The 2001 international intervention in Afghanistan and the liberal state-building enterprise that followed it opened new opportunities for social and political activism in the...
