Past events
Understanding Local Landowner Companies Associated with the Ok Tedi Mine, Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Anita’s doctoral research aims to better understand the factors that determine the success and sustainability of local business development associated with extractive resource industry. These...
From Sinking to Syncing: Pacific diplomacy and consensus in multilateral climate change negotiations
How and when do states agree not to disagree in multilateral negotiations? Consensus is more than a conference procedure or an outcome of decision making; it is a process norm in contemporary...
DPA Postgraduate Colloquium
DPA Postgraduate Colloquium 29-30 November 2017
DPA’s Postgraduate Colloquium will take place on the 29th and 30th November, at Hedley-Bull Lecture Theatre 2.
This Colloquium has an...
Bougainville: Planning for a peaceful referendum and a stable post-referendum situation
The target date for holding the Bougainville referendum is June 2019, and the latest date on which it can be held is June 2020. The Autonomous Bougainville Government’s (ABG) Department of Peace...
Gender and Political Transition Processes in Colombia, Nepal and Bougainville
This new research analyses three contexts (Colombia, Nepal and Bougainville) to extend understanding of the role of non-elite sources of political power in determining the political settlement....
Constitution reform, debates and contestation in the Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands Independence Order, 1978 was adopted with limited community input. As such, it may have avoided local intricacies that are now at the forefront of debates around the draft...
Political settlements and their trajectories
Over the last decade, international development policies, most notably in the UK, have advanced ‘political settlements’ as a framing concept to guide statebuilding practice in fragile and conflict...
Sago production in the Sepik foothills of Papua New Guinea
A case study of the process of agriculture change of the Beli people of Rangwe
The population in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been growing at an average rate of 2.5% per annum. Rural people in PNG...
Solomons Federalism, and Bougainville Referendum: Issues and Prospects
Both Solomon Islands and Bougainville are approaching critical points when longstanding debates about proposals and processes for fundamental changes in political arrangements are coming to a head...
Kastom, Property and Ideology: Land Transformations in Melanesia
Speakers
The Hon. Mr Kalfau Kaloris Vanuatu’s High Commissioner to Australia
Mr Sakias Tameo PNG’s Acting High Commissioner to Australia
With participation by:...
