This evaluation of the Ola Fou youth worker programme took place over two weeks in late February and March 2008. A participative methodology was used including observation of youth workers in context, a review of literature and programme documentation, focus group discussions in Fiji and Samoa and one-to one interviews with Ola Fou students, leaders...

In the context of the escalating tension in Fiji, a meeting of Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Affairs Ministers (FFAMM) was held in Sydney, Australia on 1 December 2006 which agreed to convene urgently an Eminent Persons Group (EPG) to visit Fiji to meet all the relevant parties to the impasse, and to make recommendations for...

Fiji has now experienced four coups in the past 20 years, after two military takeovers in quick succession in 1987 and one civilian-led coup in 2000. Many commentators believe that Fiji is now in the grip of a dangerous 'coup cycle' that needs to be broken if the country is to have any hope of...

After disastrous leakages of government guns in Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, Australia led the charge to help island nations lock up their small arms, building secure state armouries across the region. But of late, regional implementation of the UN Programme of Action has lagged.

Nic Maclellan reports that over 1000 Fijians are working in Iraq and Kuwait as soldiers, security guards, drivers and labourers, and more than 2000 Fijian soldiers are serving in the British Army. So far at least eight Fijians working in Iraq have been killed, with many others wounded. The official and unofficial Fijian deployments to...