National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Division of Humanities, University of Otago

Boege, Volker, Brown, Anne, Clements, Kevin and Nolan, Anna (2009) 'Building Peace and Political Community in Hybrid Political Orders', International Peacekeeping, 16: 5, 599-615c

Contact Details

National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand

address: 117 Albany Street, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
phone : +64 3 479 4546
fax : +64 3 479 8084

For general and student enquiries please contact Professor Clement’s Personal Assistant, Debbie Prysor at email: peaceandconflict@otago.ac.nz

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About the Centre

The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) was made possible by a $1.25m donation from the Aotearoa New Zealand Peace and Conflict Studies Centre Trust. The Trust's gift was made through the University's Leading Thinkers Initiative and was therefore matched by the Government under the Partnerships for Excellence scheme - lifting the total to $2.5m.

The NCPACS is New Zealand’s first Centre to combine global cross-disciplinary expertise on the issues of development, peacebuilding and conflict transformation. It offers postgraduate programs at the Masters and PhD level, conducts high level research on the causes of violent conflict and conditions for sustainable peace, and provides training, evaluation expertise, and expert advice to government and non-governmental organizations engaged in peacebuilding and humanitarian intervention. It is a theory, research and practice centre, located within the Division of Humanities.

NCPACS will offer programs on:

Peace and conflict research and education

Causes of war, political and other violence
Conflict Analysis, including Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation
Third Party Intervention, such as Mediation, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding
Development, Post-Conflict State/ Institution building and Reconciliation
Nonviolence

Religion and Conflict
The Aesthetics of peace - how peace is understood in music, literature, film, theatre and the visual arts
Peace, Justice, Community and Wellbeing
Peace through Health

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The aims of the Centre are to:

Build understandings of peace and conflict grounded in the experiences of people, places and history, and in ways, which respect customary and local requirements for sovereignty, development, legitimate governance and wellbeing.
Learn from dialogue, theoretical insight, international research and practical experience, including Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s own experiences of Treaty partnership and engagement in international peacebuilding.
Deliver high quality postgraduate programs at the Masters and PhD level.
Conduct research on the causes of intrastate and international armed conflict; security, conflict resolution and post -conflict peacebuilding with special reference to the Asia-Pacific region.
Provide expert advice and advanced level short courses and training for government and non-government organisations engaged in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, development, humanitarian intervention, and policy making around the role of justice and good governance in sustainable peace.
Engage in practical projects that build local capacities for sustainable development, community engagement, governance and conflict transformation in the Asia-Pacific region, and in Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s own contexts.
Facilitate evaluations and impact assessments of practical projects in the field.
Advance the understanding and knowledge of conflict resolution processes by conducting state-of-the-art training in negotiation, mediation, and cross-cultural conflict resolution.

To reach these aims, NCPACS has a multidisciplinary faculty, research associates, visiting scholars and partner organisations from around the globe. Led by Professor Kevin Clements this Faculty has a world class reputation in the field.

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Information for Prospective Students

International Students

If you are applying to study at the University of Otago as an international student, visit the International Office website at the following link: www.otago.ac.nz/international

You can also contact the International Admissions team for further information about applying for admission at:
international.admissions@otago.ac.nz

Information about scholarships is available at the following link:
www.otago.ac.nz/study/scholarships/otago005590.html

Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Peace and Conflict Studies

NCPACS is offering a Post Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts coursework programme in Peace and Conflict Studies from first semester 2010. If you are interested in becoming part of the Foundation class you should enroll as soon as possible as places are filling up fast.

This coursework Diploma and Master's programme is in addition to the Research Masters and Ph.D by thesis options.

We are looking forward to a cross cultural Foundation Class drawn from all over the world.

Any student wishing to enroll should go to the following page for details of the courses:

www.otago.ac.nz/courses/subjects/peac.html

Details regarding admissions and enrolments can be found on the following pages:

for domestic students: http://www.otago.ac.nz/study/
for international students: http://www.otago.ac.nz/international

We will be advertising some Centre Scholarships to assist overseas students at the end of November 2009.

If you have any further questions about enrolment procedures or the programme please do not hesitate to contact the Centre.

The Master's course will be of interest both to practitioners and those who wish to pursue an academic career. It will have both practical and research components. Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution. This course will lead to a wide variety of different occupations at local, national, regional and global levels. Graduates will be given powerful diagnostic and process design skills and able to work in a range of non-governmental, governmental and intergovernmental organisations.

Scholarships

NCPACS has a limited number of scholarships available to national and international students.

Download PDFs of the guidelines for applying for these scholarships:

Postgraduate Diploma and Masters Scholarship in Peace and Conflict Studies for Students of Maori/Moriori Descent (PDF, 56KB)

Postgraduate Diploma and Masters Scholarships in Peace and Conflict Studies for International Students (PDF, 54KB)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Scholarships in Peace and Conflict Studies for National and International Students (PDF, 55KB)

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People

Professor Kevin P Clements

is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association. Prior to taking up these positions he was the Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His career has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas of peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

Professor Clements has been a regular consultant to a variety of non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations on disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, development and regional security issues. He has written or edited 7 books and over 150 chapters /articles on conflict transformation, peacebuilding, preventive diplomacy and development with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region.

email: kevin.clements@otago.ac.nz

Dr Karen Brounéus

is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). She is a clinical psychologist and holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on reconciliation and transitional justice processes after civil war, and the psychological aspects of these processes. In her dissertation, "Rethinking Reconciliation: Concepts, Methods, and an Empirical Study of Truth Telling and Psychological Health in Rwanda" (April 2008) her empirical work focused in particular on the Rwandan post-genocide reconciliation process, and the psychological effects of participating and witnessing in a truth telling process. She has been a member of the Swedish government’s working group on a White Book/Truth Commission for the Roma population in Sweden, and of the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s Research Forum on Conflict Prevention. Prior to taking up research, she worked as a clinical psychologist with Afghan refugee women and children at the UNHCR in New Delhi, India, and at a children’s psychiatric clinic in Sweden.

email: karen.brouneus@otago.ac.nz

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Associate Professor Isak Svensson

a Postdoctoral Fellow, is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. His area of expertise ranges from religion in conflict resolution, unarmed insurrections, to international mediation. His dissertation, "Elusive Peacemakers: A Bargaining Perspective on Mediation in Internal Armed Conflicts", focused on the conditions for international mediation in civil wars. His main focus has been on how mediation can help to overcome bargaining problems, including the role of bias mediation in civil wars, issues of power and trust mediators, and third-party security guarantees. He has published works in several high-ranking journals, such as Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Negotiation Journal and International Negotiations. In addition, he has written several book-chapters with prestigious publishers. He has also explored the Norwegian mediation efforts in Sri Lanka. Svensson has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Civil Wars (CSCW) at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo.

email: isak.svensson@pcr.uu.se

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Visiting Fellows

Dr Marilyn Willis

is a Visiting Fellow with NCPACS. Prior to joining NCPACS, she worked extensively for over 15 years as an international development consultant on projects funded by multilateral and bilateral agencies in the Asia Pacific Region (especially, PR China and Papua New Guinea) and for over 10 years in academic positions in psychology, education, and management departments in Australian universities. As an international development consultant, she used her professional knowledge as an organisational psychologist to design and implement capacity building strategies and training programs targeting organisational development (especially organisational culture, leadership and management), strategic management and organisational change in diverse public sector reform programs (e.g., mining and metallurgy, environment and natural resources, finance, foreign affairs, public administration, and education). She has worked on projects at all stages of the development project cycle (including design, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation).

Her current research interests focus on the effectiveness of current public sector development programs in the Asia Pacific region, analysis of role and effectiveness of development impact assessments, cross cultural leadership and management in Asia Pacific, and the nature of conflict and conflict prevention solutions within development programs in Asia Pacific.

email: marilyn.willis@otago.ac.nz

Dr Mikio Oishi

is a Visiting Fellow with the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). Holding a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution (University of Bradford, UK), he is a specialist in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Since leaving the government sector in Japan in 1989, he has been employed in research and consultancy roles focusing on the study of development-related conflicts in Southeast Asia, environmental conflicts in Japan and conflict management in the Asia Pacific Region. His positions have included: Administrator of a provincial government in Japan; Human rights activist for a Malaysian NGO; Lecturer and Researcher with a Malaysian and a New Zealand university; Business consultant and international business negotiator based in Malaysia and Japan; and Town development consultant in Japan.

Knowledgeable in the world’s major religions and humanistic traditions, he is interested in developing a spiritual and holistic approach to conflict transformation in Asian countries as well as seeking a regional political order reflecting the rich cultures, values and norms of the Asia-Pacific. He has published two books and over 15 refereed journal articles related to peace and conflict studies.

email: mikio.oishi@otago.ac.nz

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Dr David Craig

is a visiting fellow at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS), and Senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland. His research sits between political sociology, international political economy, and cultural critique. It follows shifts in liberal and neoliberal policy and governance, especially in peripheral (mainly Southeast Asia) and semi-peripheral (mostly New Zealand) context. It considers policy and new institutional approaches to fragile states and state /peace building, poverty and human/ ecological security, health and wellbeing, and to the arts and culture.

His current book ("Development's New Institutions: Decentralised governance, aid alignment and post conflict security in Cambodia", with University of Michigan Press, June 09) considers how New Institutional decentralised governance reforms in post-conflict Cambodia interact with that country's neopatrimonial governance regimen, and the effects of this in terms of post-conflict institutional development and poverty/ human/ ecological security. He is co-author with Doug Porter of "Development beyond Neoliberalism" (Routledge 2006) which compared these aspects in Vietnam, Uganda, Pakistan and New Zealand. Engaging aspects of these issues has taken him to the Philippines (NGO collaboration), Vietnam (deregulation and health), remote indigenous Australia (communities and service delivery), in Waitakere City, New Zealand (partnerships and governance), and Cambodia (2003-now).

email: david.craig@otago.ac.nz

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Research Associates

Dr Roderic Alley

was formerly Associate Professor of International Politics and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and a graduate of Victoria University and the London School of Economics. He now teaches New Zealand Foreign Relations in the School of Government's Master of Strategic Studies Programme. Dr Alley has published and taught widely in foreign relations, international organisations, international relations in the Pacific, and arms control and disarmament. His last book (2004) published by Ashgate Press (UK) deals with the international implications of internal conflict. Dr Alley also has interests in international humanitarian law, where he convenes the New Zealand International Humanitarian Law Committee which is advisory to the government, and is active in the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. He is a co-convenor of the New Zealand National Consultative Committee on Disarmament.

email: Roderic.Alley@vuw.ac.nz

Professor Eileen F. Babbitt

is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice, Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program and co-director of the Program on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Her research and policy interests include identity-based conflicts; coexistence and trust-building in the aftermath of civil war; and the interface between human rights concerns and peacebuilding. Her 20+ years of practice as a facilitator, mediator, and trainer has included work in the Middle East and the Balkans, and with the United Nations, U.S. government agencies, regional inter-governmental organizations, and international and local NGOs.

Before joining the Fletcher faculty, Professor Babbitt was Director of Education and Training at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. and Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Professor Babbitt’s latest publications include the forthcoming book, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland, co-edited with Ellen Lutz and published by Syracuse University Press; and Negotiating Self-Determination (2007), co-edited with Hurst Hannum and published by Lexington Books.

Dr. Babbitt holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from MIT.

email: eileen.babbitt@tufts.edu

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Professor Margaret Bedggood QSO
MA, New Zealand and University College London,
LLB, University of Otago

is Honorary Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford. A former Dean of the Law School, she was an elected member of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International from 1999 – 2005. Her research interests include human rights law, both domestic and international especially economic, social and cultural rights, and more recently the intersection of human rights, religion and theology. She is a former Chief Commissioner and Chair of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, Chair of the Human Rights Foundation of Aotearoa/New Zealand and a member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis.

email: bedggood@waikato.ac.nz

Dr Scott H. Bennett

is Associate Professor of History at Georgian Court University, in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. He has special interests in twentieth century U.S. history, peace history, radicalism, social & political reform movements, Cold War America, and the Vietnam War. His research focuses on radical pacifism, conscientious objectors, and nonviolent social movements. He is past president of the Peace History Society (2007-08).

He has published and spoken widely on radical pacifism, WWII conscientious objectors, and political nonviolence. He has written Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-23 (2003), and edited Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (2005). He is completing a book manuscript on the lives and WWII prison letters of radical pacifists Igal and Vivien Roodenko. His next project will be a biography of socialist pacifist David McReynolds.

email: sbennett@georgian.edu

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Dr Volker Boege

is a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Volker studied history, political science and German literature and has a PhD from the University of Hamburg.

His involvement with peace and conflict studies goes back to the early 1980s, when he first worked as a research assistant with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. Later he was a peace and security policy advisor to the parliamentary group of the Green Party in the German Parliament. In the 1990s he worked with the Unit for the Study of Wars, Armaments and Development of the University of Hamburg and for the Swiss Peace Foundation’s ENCOP project (Environment and Conflicts Project). From 2001 to October 2003 he worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Development and Peace of the University of Duisburg, Germany. In October 2003 he joined the “Security and Environment” programme of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). He then began researching issues of water, conflict and cooperation, predominantly in southern Africa. In February 2005 he joined ACPACS as a visiting fellow. He continued to work for BICC while an ACPACS fellow. In October 2006 he took on the position of Research Fellow with ACPACS.

At present he mainly focuses on extractive industries and conflict; customary approaches to conflict transformation, peacebuilding and conflict resolution; conflicts and peacebuilding in the South Pacific; hybrid political orders, fragile states and state-building.

He has published numerous papers, articles and books in the fields of peace research and contemporary history. The latest book is: Muschelgeld und Blutdiamanten. Traditionale Konfliktbearbeitung in zeitgenössischen Gewaltkonflikten. Hamburg 2004 (Schriften des Deutschen Uebersee-Instituts Hamburg Nummer 63).

email: v.boege@uq.edu.au

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Professor Jurgen Brauer

is a tenured Professor of Economics at Augusta State University’s James M. Hull College of Business. He holds an economics undergraduate degree from the Free University of Berlin (1979), and master and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Notre Dame (1986, 1989). Prior to his present appointment, he taught at St. Mary’s College and at the University of Notre Dame (1989-1991). Widely published, he has been a Peace Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace and is a member of the academic honor societies of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Beta Gamma Sigma. He has lived on five continents.

Professor Brauer carries on wide-ranging scholarship in the fields of peace and conflict research, military affairs, economic development, and economic education.

Professor Brauer is a member of the American Economic Association and a Fellow, Economists for Peace and Security where he served as vice-chair from 1998 to 2005. He is a member of the Peace Science Society International and founding member of the Asian Peace Science Network. Professor Brauer has served as consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, NATO, the U.S. National Defense University, and to the Chief Economist, Office of the Comptroller, City of New York.

email: brauer.jurgen@gmail.com

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Professor David Carment

is a full Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University and Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He is also a NATO Fellow and listed in Who's Who in
International Affairs. In addition Professor Carment serves as the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project (CIFP).

Professor Carment has served as Director of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies at Carleton University and is the recipient of a Carleton Graduate Student's teaching excellence award, SSHRC fellowships and research awards, Carleton University's research achievement award, and a Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. Professor Carment has held fellowships at the Kennedy School, Harvard and the Hoover Institution, Stanford and currently heads a team of researchers that evaluates policy effectiveness in failed and fragile states (see http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/ Country Indicators for Foreign Policy). Recent articles on these topics appear in the Harvard International Review, the Journal of Conflict Management and Peace Science and the Global Responsibility to Protect Journal. His most recent book is Security, Development and the Fragile State: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Policy.

Expertise

Teaching: Conflict analysis, mediation, international organization, negotiation and policy analysis.
Research interests include the international dimensions of ethnic conflict including diaspora, the role of communication technologies in risk analysis and early warning, peacekeeping, conflict prevention and Canadian foreign policy analysis.

email: dcarment@ccs.carleton.ca

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Dr Feargal Cochrane

was born and educated in Belfast Northern Ireland. He is currently Director of the Richardson Institute, a peace and conflict research centre at Lancaster University.

His research focuses in particular on patterns of political violence, peace-building, and the role of civil society in conflict transformation.

Over the last several years his work has been focusing on migration, conflict and security. He teaches on the peace studies and conflict resolution courses within the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has published widely on issues linked to violent political conflict, including several books, numerous articles in leading international journals and contributions to a number of edited collections. He is currently working with a network of scholars from across Europe and North America on a comparative analysis of the role of Diaspora groups in peace and violence, and his monograph The End of Irish America? Globalisation and the Irish Diaspora, will be published by Irish Academic Press in Spring 2010. His last book was entitled Ending Wars (Polity Press 2008).

email: f.cochrane@lancaster.ac.uk

The Rt Revd Dr David Coles
MA(Hons), BD, MTh, DipRelEd, PhD

is currently Anglican Vicar of Wakatipu based in Queenstown in Central Otago. From 1990 to 2008 he was Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Christchurch. Previously he served as Vicar of Takapuna in Auckland an then as Dean of St John’s Cathedral Napier, and in 1984 as Dean of Christchurch Cathedral until 1990.

He has been deeply involved in the ecumenical movement throughout his Ministry and in 1974 he graduated PhD at the University of Manchester with a Dissertation on “The search for methods in Ecumenical Social Ethics” as the first PhD graduate in the Department of Social and Pastoral Theology under the supervision of The Revd Canon Professor Ronald Preston. His research engaged with the World Council of Churches and its Church and Society Programme under the leadership of the late Dr Paul Abrecht.

David Coles was Chair of the Council on Ecumenism of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia for the last 15 years. He was also a President of the Conference of Churches of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1991-94. In 2007 he became the founding President of the Christchurch Inter-Faith Council. He was Proctor Fellow at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1995 and Woods Fellow at Virginia Theological Seminary in 2005. He chaired the Anglican Tikanga Pakeha Commission of Sexuality from 1994 until the presentation of the Report in 1998. He was also a member of the World Council of Churches/Bossey Institute Working Parties on Human Sexuality in 2002 and 2003. He was a delegate to the WCC Assemblies in 1983 and 1991.

He continues to have active engagement with peace and justice issues, especially in relation to human sexuality and inter-faith matters.

email: djcoles@clear.net.nz

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Dr Kate Dewes
Ph.D. O.N.Z.M (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit)

has coordinated the South Island Regional Office of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Peace Foundation from her home in Christchurch for 30 years. She taught Peace Studies from 1986-1997 part time and from 1999-2006 at the University of Canterbury. Between 1988-90, and again from 2000-2007, she served on the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control. From 1992-96, she was an International Peace Bureau (IPB) Executive member, and was a Vice President from 1997-2003. She has been a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa) for 34 years. In 2007 she was appointed to the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and was the New Zealand government expert on the United Nations Study on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education from 2000-2002.

A pioneer of the World Court Project (WCP) - an international campaign by a network of citizen organisations which led to a legal challenge to nuclear deterrence in the International Court of Justice - she was on its International Steering Committee from 1992-96. Her Peace Studies doctoral thesis documents the evolution and impact of the WCP. She co-authored Aotearoa/New Zealand at the World Court with her partner Robert Green and has published numerous articles and chapters on the WCP and other nuclear disarmament and peace related issues (see www.disarmsecure.org ). She was the main instigator in the successful adoption of the proposal to have Christchurch declared New Zealand's first Peace City in July 2002 and received a Peace City Award in 2007.

email: kate@chch.planet.org.nz

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Professor Mari Fitzduff

is Professor and Director of the MA program in Coexistence and Conflict that started at Brandeis University, Boston, in 2004. The program is specifically geared towards the development of mid-career personnel working in governments, international and NGO organizations, who wish to develop their capacities in coexistence and conflict theory, policy and practice skills. Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/Slifka/

From 1997-2003, she held a Chair of Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster where she was Director of UNU/INCORE (www.incore.ulst.ac.uk) from 1997-2003. UNU/INCORE was set up in 1993 by the University of Ulster and the United Nations University to address the management of ethnic, political and religious conflict through an integrated approach using research, training, policy, and program and practice development.

From 1990-1997 she was the founding Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (http://www.community-relations.org.uk/) which was set up in 1990 to fund and work with government, statutory bodies, trade unions, churches, community groups, security groups, women’s group, prisoners, businesses and politicians interested in developing programs and training to address issues of community relations/coexistence in Northern Ireland.

She has also worked on programmes on conflict resolution, human rights, and diversity/coexistence work in the Basque Country, the Caucasus, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Indonesia, Russia, Crimea, Cameroon, Philippines, Peru and Columbia, and is utilized as an international expert by many international organizations on international conflict such as the British Council, the Commonwealth, UNDP, UNDPA, UNDESA, World Bank, DiFID, etc.

email: mfitzd@brandeis.edu

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Dr Kennedy Graham
BCom (Auckland), BA (Wellington), MA (Boston), PhD (Wellington)

is Senior Adjunct Fellow at the School of Law, University of Canterbury (2007 - 10), having held a research fellowship for the previous two years. The fellowship facilitated a research project on ‘alternative models of regional governance for Pacific Island States’.

Dr Graham holds a B. Com (Auckland), MA in International Relations (Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Boston), and a Ph.D. (Victoria University, Wellington). He has received Fulbright and Fletcher scholarships, a McCarthy Fellowship (1986), and was Quartercentenary Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, England (1995). Dr Graham served in the NZ foreign service for 16 years, specializing in global security and the UN, his last diplomatic assignment being counsellor in the NZ Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. He has lived and worked in nine countries in Asia, the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

From 1999 to 2004 he worked for the United Nations University, first as Director of its Leadership Academy (Amman, Jordan; 1999-2002); then as director of its Regional Security & Global Governance Project (Bruges, Belgium; 2002-4). In 2004 he was commissioned to provide a paper for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Paper on Threats, Challenges and Change.

In 2005-6 he was Senior Consultant to the UN’s Department of Political Affairs in New York, assisting in the preparation and convening of the Secretary-General’s high-level meetings, and the Security Council’s meetings, with regional organizations.

email: kennedy.graham@parliament.govt.nz

Dr Paula Green
Ed. D.

has many years of experience in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and reconciliation. Her international experience includes the development, design, and delivery of multi-year programs in peacebuilding, inter-communal dialogue, and reconciliation for diverse stakeholders. As the Executive Director of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, she directs the organization’s peacebuilding and conflict resolution programs and has worked in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Mid East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. She is also the founder and Director of the CONTACT (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures) program and a faculty member at the School for International Training http://www.sit.edu/graduate/6658.htm. Dr. Green has held numerous university faculty positions and has been a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology. She is the author of a number of publications on peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

Honorary Award
In April 2009, Dr. Green was awarded an Unsung Hero of Compassion by the Dalai Lama. The Unsung Heroes award is presented to “individuals who, through their loving kindness and service to others, have made their communities and our world a better place.”

email: paula@karunacenter.org

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Commander Robert Green
Royal Navy (Retired)

served from 1962-82, navigating Buccaneer nuclear strike aircraft and anti-submarine helicopters. Promoted to Commander in 1978, he worked in the Ministry of Defence in London and finally as Staff Officer (Intelligence) to the Commander-in-Chief Fleet during the Falklands War.

In 1984, the murder of Rob’s aunt Hilda Murrell, an anti-nuclear energy and weapons campaigner, led him to campaign against nuclear power. Then the break-up of the Soviet Union and the 1991 Gulf War caused him to speak out against nuclear weapons.

In October 1991 he became Chair of the UK branch of the World Court Project, through which he met Kate Dewes, a pioneer of this international legal challenge to the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. After marrying in 1997, they established the Disarmament & Security Centre in their home in Christchurch. Rob is using his twenty years’ military experience to promote alternative thinking about defence issues, and help build bridges between the military and the peace movement. See www.disarmsecure.org for his numerous publications.

email: rob@disarmsecure.org

Dr Peter Greener, New Zealand Defence Force

is Senior Fellow at the Command and Staff College, New Zealand Defence Force, Trentham, Wellington. Professionally qualified as a psychotherapist, Peter has a Master of Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington, and a PhD in Politics from the University of Auckland.

He joined NZDF in 2008, having previously been Head of School, School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies, AUT University where he had been a senior staff member since 1997. Prior to joining AUT Peter had been Director of the Auckland Family Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre for some 12 years. Peter has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bradford, and Fellow of the Asia Pacific College of Security Studies, Honolulu. From 1995 - 1999 he was Chair of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.

Peter’s research interests include the aetiology, management and resolution of conflict; post conflict development; and the politics of defence decision making. He brings to these interests the perspective of his many years experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Peter has edited a number of books including Turning the tide – A New Approach to Conflict Resolution (2001); Push for Peace (2005); Legacy of Armistice – why Afghanistan? (2006); The Balkan Question – is there an answer in sight? (2007) and “very, very, very good friends”? New Zealand United States Relationships (2008); and he was a contributing author to The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace (2005 and 2006).

email: peter.greener@nzdf.mil.nz

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Dr Najibullah Lafraie

is a lecturer at the Department of Politics, University of Otago. He holds a PhD and an MA in Political Science from the University of Hawaii, USA, and a BA in Political Science and Law from Kabul University, Afghanistan. He was a member of the resistance movement against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s and served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, when the Taliban captured Kabul. He moved with his family to New Zealand in September 2000.

email: najib.lafraie@otago.ac.nz

Emeritus Professor Chris Mitchell

was born and educated in London. He has held academic positions at University College, London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Southampton. He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Systems Science at the City University in 1973 and became Professor of International Relations there in 1983. He joined the academic exodus from Britain in the mid-1980s and is currently Emeritus Professor of Conflict Research at George Mason University, Virginia, where he was Director of that university's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution between 1991 and 1994.

He continues to work on practical and theoretical aspects of peace making processes and has recently published articles on the theory of entrapment, on ending asymmetric conflicts and on a multi-role model of mediation. His major works are The Structure of International Conflict [Macmillan & St Martins Press; 1981], Peacemaking and the Consultants' Role [Gower Press & Nichols Publications; 1981] and [with Keith Webb] New Approaches to International Mediation [Greenwood Press; 1988]. Most recently he has published Gestures of Conciliation [St Martins Press/Macmillan; 2000], A Handbook of Conflict Resolution [Frances Pinter/ Continuum 1995] and [with Landon Hancock] Zones of Peace [Kumarian Press; 2007]

email: cmitchel@gmu.edu

Ms Ruth Molloy

(LLB (Otago), LLM (Melbourne)), Enrolled Barrister and Solicitor, RGONNZ is a tutor at University of Otago in the Faculty of Law (Legal Ethics) and Department of Politics (Ethics and International Relations, and US Security and National Intelligence). Her current areas of research interest are International Law and Mediation, Foreign Policy, Ethics, Conflict Management, and Global and Human Security issues. Prior to her recent university positions, she worked as a Registered Nurse and in the not-for-profit sector liaising with government and corporate sectors as well as other NGOs utilising her knowledge and expertise in relationship building and conflict management.

email: ruthhmolloy@xtra.co.nz

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Professor Luc Reychler

(PhD Harvard 1976) is Professor international relations at the University of Leuven and Director of the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies (CPRS) there. He was secretary general of IPRA (International Peace Research Association) from 2004-2008.

Courses: Peace Research and Conflict management / Strategy : global security analysis / Peace building architecture / Multilateral diplomacy and negotiation-mediation techniques.

Research: Sustainable peace building architecture, Planning and evaluation of peace building interventions; Comparative analysis and evaluation of peace negotiations, and peace building in DRCongo.

Recent Books: Le défi de la paix au Burundi, 1999, L’Harmattan, Paris; Democratic peace building : the devil is in the transition, 1999, Leuven University Press; Peace building: a field guide, 2001, Lynne Riener, Boulder, Col; De volgende genocide (the next genocide), 2004, Leuven University Press; Aid for peace: a guide to planning and evaluation in conflict zones, Nomos, 2007.

email: luc.reychler@soc.kuleuven.be

Professor Emerita Janet Rifkin

Janet Rifkin is a Professor Emerita of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She served as Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University for the past eight years. In addition, she held numerous other administrative posts including University Ombudsperson, Founder and Director of the University Mediation Program, Associate Dean and Chair of the Legal Studies Department.

She has been actively involved in building the field of conflict resolution, both in theory and practice. Having taught numerous courses to undergraduate and graduate students, she also has developed and offered a range of workshops to diverse audiences. These include training programs in mediation and conflict resolution in Canada, in Central Europe and most recently to Fulbright recipients from Iraq and Argentina. She has written numerous articles and books related to the study of conflict and its resolution including Online Dispute Resolution (with Katsh,) The Social Construction of Neutrality (with Cobb,) The Challenge of the Ombuds, and Mediation from a Feminist Perspective.

She has been on the board of numerous organizations in the field including the National Institute of Dispute Resolution (NIDR), The National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (NCPCR,) the National Association for Mediation and Education (NAME, as Founder and first Co-Director), and the American Bar Association Committee on Dispute Resolution (as Special Advisor). Most recently, she received the Mary Parker Follett Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution.

email: jrifkin@legal.umass.edu

Professor Andrew Rigby

is Professor of Peace Studies and the founding director of the Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University, UK. Prior to his position at Coventry he was a Reader in Peace Studies at Bradford University in the UK and also has taught in the USA, Australia, Norway and elsewhere.

Firmly committed to nonviolence, Andrew’s first major research interest was in alternative lifestyles and the history of efforts to live non-violently. He has written four books and many journal articles on this theme. The interest in non-violence led to a life-long study of Gandhian thought and practice, and he has an on-going research interest in the transformations of the Gandhian movement in Tamil Nadu, India.

In the 1980s Andrew became interested in the politics of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular. This resulted in a major study of the ‘first intifada’ as an example of an unarmed civilian resistance movement. As part of his research into the Palestinian Uprising, Andrew became interested in the challenge posed by Palestinian collaborators with the Israeli occupation. This in turn led to an exploration of the challenges faced by successor regimes in relation to what has become known as ‘dealing with the past’. Alongside this research interest Andrew has continued to teach and write about the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation in societies emerging out of destructive conflict, which has led to a growing interest in the centrality of emotions in such processes.

email: a.rigby@coventry.ac.uk

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Professor Paul Rogers

is Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University where he teaches courses on international security, arms control and political violence. He has written or edited 26 books and his work has been translated into many languages including Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish and Farsi. A collection of his writings over the past 20 years was published by Routledge in 2007 under the title of Global Security and the War on Terror – Elite Power and the Illusion of Control and the third edition of his book Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century, will be published early in 2010. Paul Rogers is international security consultant for the Oxford Research Group, writes a weekly assessment of international security trends for www.opendemocracy.net and was Chair of the British International Studies Association, 2002-04. He is a frequent lecturer at defence colleges and also does over a hundred interviews a year for local, national and international broadcast networks.

email: p.f.rogers@bradford.ac.uk

Dr Joanna Santa Barbara
MB.BS, FRANZCP, FRCP(C), O. Ont.

trained and practiced as a child psychiatrist in Australia and Canada. For 25 years she has been involved with the development of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. She is Assoc. Prof, Dept. of Psychiatry (retired), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Senior Associate, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University. She is Co-Editor with Neil Arya of "Peace Through Health: How health Professionals can work for a less violent world", Kumarian Press.

email: Joanna.SantaBarbara@sustainablevillages.co.nz

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Dr Susanne Schmeidl

Susanne Schmeidl is a visiting fellow at the Asia-Pacific College on Diplomacy at The Australian National University and senior advisor in the areas of research and peacebuilding to The Liaison Office (TLO) in Afghanistan. At present, she is spending between 3-5 months each year inside Afghanistan. Her work experience spans the sectors of academia/university, non-governmental organizations and the United Nations and has combined of academic analysis and practice in the areas of civilian peacebuilding, early warning and conflict prevention. During her nine years that she worked with the applied think-tank swisspeace, she managed the Afghanistan office for four years while also coordinating the Afghan Civil Society Forum, which she helped co-found.

Dr. Schmeidl holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the Ohio State University and has worked at the Centre for Refugee Studies (York University, Canada) as a postdoctoral researcher, coordinator of the Prevention/Early Warning Unit, coordinator of the Interim Secretariat of the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response, technical consultant for the Food and Statistics Unit of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and senior research fellow at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University in Australia.

Dr. Schmeidl has written over 40 research publications in the areas of early warning/conflict prevention, civilian peacebuilding/state building, protracted displacement, human security, gender and civil society; most recently on the impact on the private security sector on the local peacebuilding process, the need for a non-military solution in the growing conflict in Afghanistan, and displacement in Afghanistan.

Recent opinions posted on www.brookings.edu:

Mundt, Alexander and Susanne Schmeidl, “The Failure to Protect: Battle-Affected IDPs in Southern Afghanistan,” The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement/The Liaison Office. 22 June 2009. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0622_afghanistan_mundt.aspx

Mundt, Alexander, Susanne Schmeidl and Shafiqullah Ziai, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Return of Internally Displaced Persons to Northern Afghanistan” The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement/The Liaison Office. 01 June 2009. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0601_afghanistan_mundt.aspx

email: susanne@schmeidl.com

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Dr Polly O Walker

is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland. She is of Cherokee and Anglo-American descent and specialises in research and practice of intercultural conflict transformation. She has facilitated research and training projects in Australia and Melanesia, including: decreasing structural violence against Indigenous Australians; reconciliation involving Indigenous and Settler Australians; mediation training in collaboration with Solomon Islands’ National Peace Council; and conflict transformation workshops, in collaboration with Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs in Vanuatu. Dr. Walker has been trained in Creative Dialogue and Design (Interpretive Structural Modelling) and is working with colleagues to implement the process within Australia. Her research in this area focuses on the effectiveness and cultural congruence in Aboriginal Australian organisations. She has been implementing the process in a community peacebuilding process in Cairns and with MEDCo, an international development and peacebuilding organisation in the Philippines.

Dr. Walker has taught a range of courses at University of Queensland, including cross-cultural mediation and international issues in Indigenous-Settler relationships; presented at numerous International Conferences and published in Australian and international journals. Dr. Walker is also involved in research on creative approaches to conflict resolution, and is currently serving as co-editor of an anthology on Performance and Peacebuilding.

email: p.walker2@uq.edu.au

Professor Peter Wallensteen

holds the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (since 1985) and is the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (since 2006). He directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP (http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/UCDP/) and the Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions, SPITS (www.smartsanctions.se). He and his colleagues comment regularly on the issue of conflict trends in Journal of Peace Research. The Human Security Report, based in Vancouver, Canada, also discusses such issues.

Some of his most recent research areas deal with issues of peacebuilding and the possibility of avoiding/preventing wars from restarting. An overview chapter on the state of peacebuilding research is published in 2009 in the new Oxford University Press series on peacebuilding edited by Assoc Prof Dan Philpott, University of Notre Dame.

Go to http://kroc.nd.edu/people/directory/faculty/peter-wallensteen for another profile page for Peter.

email: Peter.Wallensteen@pcr.uu.se

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Dr Nick Wilson
(MBChB, FNZCPHM, DIH, MPH)

is a public health physician and part-time Senior Lecturer with the University of Otago Wellington School of Medicine and Health Science. He is the principal investigator for the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project (NZ arm) which is a Health Research Council funded cohort study of smokers. He is also engaged in consultancy work in public health medicine (mainly for NZ health sector organisations and the World Health Organization). His research interests include:

Tobacco use epidemiology and control (see the tobacco control work within the Department of Public Health)
Use of economic instruments to promote public health (e.g. tobacco taxation)
Communicable disease control (particularly pandemic influenza)
Environmental health (global climate change)
Use of public health movies in medical education

email: nick.wilson@otago.ac.nz

Professor Dr Herbert Wulf

was Director of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) from its foundation in 1994 until 2001. He is presently a research associate at BICC and an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg/Essen where he was previously a Deputy Director. He was a visiting scholar at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia in 2007 and taught at the Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany. Herbert Wulf has served as a consultant to various international organizations, among them the Parliament and the Commission of the European Union as well as to the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, the Human Development Report of UNDP. He served as Chief Technical Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Pyongyang, Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea on capacity building in disarmament in 1991 and between 2002 and 2007.

In his previous research positions he was a Project Leader at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. His latest book publications is Internationalizing and Privatizing War and Peace, Palgrave McMillan, 2005, and he edited with Johannes M. Becker Zerstörter Irak – Zukunft des Irak? (Destroyed Iraq – The Future of Iraq?), Lit Muenster 2008.

He studied at the Universities of Cologne (economics), Mannheim and Hamburg (sociology) and wrote his dissertation at the Free University of Berlin in international relations. Prior to his work in research, he was Director of the German Volunteer Service in India. In February 2007 the Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany, awarded the Peter-Becker price for peace and conflict research to Herbert Wulf.

email: wulf.herbert@web.de; website: www.wulf-herbert.de

Dr Kazuyo Yamane

is a Japanese peace educator and researcher, and a graduateof the University of Bradford (PhD in Peace Studies). She is a lecturer at Kochi University and a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Network of Museums for Peace and the editor of Muse: Newsletter of Japanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Peace Education (England), and the Journal of Peace & Conflict Review published by the UN mandated University for Peace.

email: GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp

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Research Foci

The Centre is doing research in the following areas:

Causes of war, political and other violence
Conflict Analysis, including Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation
Third Party Intervention, Mediation, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding Development
Post-Conflict State/ Institution building and Reconciliation
The Theory and Practice of Nonviolence Religion and Conflict
The Aesthetics of peace-how peace is understood in music, literature, film, theatre and the visual arts
Peace, Justice, Community and Wellbeing
Peace through Health
Development and Peacebuilding in South East and East Asia and the South West Pacific

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Events

Seminars and Lectures

Unless stated otherwise, all seminars will be held in:
Room 5C13 (next to Reception)
5th Floor, Arts Building

Wanaka Summer School, 17-22 January 2010

'A New Exodus? From Militarism and Consumerism to Building Just and Peaceful Communities'

Speakers: Andrew Bradstock (Director, Centre for Theology and Public Issues at Otago University) and Kevin Clements (Director, NZ Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies).

An opportunity to combine a summer holiday in Wanaka, one of the most beautiful areas in New Zealand, with a forum to learn, share and discuss.

Further information from the Centre for Theology and Public Issues or from :
Neal & Alison Brown - tel: 03 443 1044 / email: brown.hawea@actrix.co.nz

For the brochure and application form go to: http://www.presbyterian.org.nz/for-parishes/events/afc-summer-school-wanaka

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NZ Bioethics Conference: Ethics after Harm

Keynote speaker: Professor Kevin Clements

War Crimes: Collective Memory and Responsibility

Professor Kevin Clements, Director, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago
Mr Mathew Gillett, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, Netherlands
Associate Professor Jing-Bao Nie, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago

St David Lecture Theatre Complex
Friday 29 January
7.30pm to 9.30pm

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Seminars and Lectures held in 2009

Martyrs for Peace

Reverend Father John Dear S.J.

Moot Court, 10 Floor, Richardson Building
Monday 2 November, 12 noon to 1.30pm

Reverend Father John Dear S.J. is a Jesuit Priest, Peace Activist, Organiser, Lecturer, Retreat leader, and author/editor of 20 books on peace and nonviolence, including Living Peace. He was nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. www.fatherjohndear.org

In this lecture Reverend Father John Dear will introduce some of the individual leaders who have made a courageous lifetime vocational commitment to promoting peace and justice. These people often paid for their ideals with their lives and demonstrated positive non-violent alternatives to violence.

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Kevin P Clements, Professorial Inaugural Lecture - 5.00 - 8.00pm "Enlarging the Boundaries of Compassion", Wednesday September 23rd 2009, University of Otago, College of Education Auditorium, Union Street East, Dunedin.

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Radio New Zealand National interview

Kevin Clements talks with Chris Laidlaw, Sunday 31 May, 2009
Go to the RadioNZ website to listen to the interview: www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/20090531

The discussion includes Peace and Conflict Centres, development and peacebuilding, climate change, urbanisation, New Zealand, Bicultural relations, the South Pacific and Legitimacy.

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Balancing Partnership, Power and Identity

The Right Reverend Bishop George Connor, Anglican Bishop of Dunedin (Southland/Otago

Richardson 7N10, 7th Floor, Richardson Building
Thursday 15 October, 12 noon to 1.30pm

This lecture is an opportunity for Bishop George Connor to reflect on the Anglican experience of maintaining unity, through respect for cultural identity, power sharing, and new concepts of partnership.

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Mr Pawel Swieboda, Founder and Director of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy
"The Role of Regional Organisations in Creating Peace"
Tuesday 8 September 2009, 12.30 – 1.30 pm

Mr Swieboda is the founder of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy. He is the author of numerous articles on issues of European integration and international relations. This is your opportunity to hear a fascinating contemporary EU practitioner and commentator talk about the rewards and incentives for changing national behaviour.

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Keeping New Zealand No 1 for Peace: Internal and External Drivers of Peace

Professor Kevin Clements, Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago

Moot Court Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 26 August, 5:30pm

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Bioethics Seminar

The quest for grounded Legitimacy: post colonial connections to a pre-colonial past

Professor Kevin Clements
Director, The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago

9th Floor Seminar Room, Dunedin Public Hospital
Monday 24 August, 12.30 pm

Abstract. Post colonial society must derive its legitimacy from the social and political orders that contributed to the colonisation event. The hierarchies of value and cultural legitimacy intrinsic to those settings are not, however, informed by the reality of a new setting and the possibilities that exist there and so they create tensions in praxis and theory that need to be explored and confronted.

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Dr George Davis, History Researcher, History Department, University of Otago will speak informally on
"Landscape, Memory, Fidelity and Absence in War and Peace"
Wednesday 19 August 2009, 12.00 – 1.30 pm

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Don Clarke, Director of Global Programmes for the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) will speak informally on
"Aid, development and peace"
Friday 24th July 2009, 12.00 - 1.30pm
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Alastair McKecknie, Director of Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group, World Bank, will speak informally on
"From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: The World Bank's Approach to Fragility and Conflict"
Wednesday 8th July 2009, 12.00 - 1.30pm

An interview by the Otago Daily Times with Alistair McKechnie can be found at the following webpage:

www.odt.co.nz/the-regions/otago/64641/world-bank-director-helps-fragile-economies

Dr Lynne Parmenter, Professor, School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University, Japan will speak informally on
"Educating global citizens"
Friday 19th June 2009, 12.00 - 1.30pm

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