Pacific Area
Briefing paper
Serving in a multinational police mission in Solomon Islands: New Zealand perspectives
Summarises the findings of an online survey of New Zealand police who had served in the Participating Police Force that was undertaken as an adjunct to a major investigation of the impact of Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) on Pacific policing.
Report
Being the first: women leaders in the Pacific Islands
Recent policy and academic writing on women in the Pacific has focused on the barriers women in the region experience when seeking to participate in formal politics. This paper contributes to the small body of work that seeks to explain how some women defy these barriers, are elected to parliament and achieve high office.
Working paper
From locally managed marine areas to Indigenous and community conserved oceans
The importance of the work carried out by local communities across the globe in coastal resources and fisheries management cannot be underestimated - and communities in the Pacific islands are no exception.
Briefing paper
Tuna Initiative: 2018 update
Since Conservation International (CI) launched its Tuna Initiative in 2015, the risks posed by climate change to tuna’s contributions to the economies of Pacific Island countries, as well as the food security and livelihoods of Pacific Island people, are increasingly obvious.
Book
Mobilities of return: Pacific perspectives
This volume situates ‘mobilities of return’—that is, the movement of people ‘back’ to places that are designated, however ambiguously or ambivalently, as ‘home’—as a starting point for understanding the broader context and experience of human mobility, community and identity in the Pacific region and beyond.