Conferences
This section includes information about previous conferences held, including recordings.
There was a clear need for critical discussions about nuclear technologies, nuclear imperialism, nuclear colonialism and the Non-Proliferation Treaty. There is also a need for those people most harmed by nuclear technologies to guide these discussions. Given its antinuclear policies and culture, as well as its location within Oceania, Aotearoa provided a unique context for hosting such critical conversations at the conference Nuclear Connections Across Oceania: Coming Together to Address Nuclear Imperialism, Nuclear Colonialism and Their Material Consequences (with the Centre for Sustainability). The conference engaged approximately people from Aotearoa, Oceania (the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tahiti, Japan, Australia) and globally in critical discussions on current nuclear issues.
Supported by the first-of-its-kind partnership with Twitter in Aotearoa, the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) organised the New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of social media conference on 16 and 17 March to explore the intersection of social media and democracy.
In a video message sent to the conference, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern highlighted “the power of digital technology to connect and convene” and stressed that we also “need to consider and mitigate the harms technology can sometimes deliver into our institutions and lives.”
A Conference to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Founding of Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa | the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa was established at the University of Otago in 2009. Its aim was to combine global cross-disciplinary expertise on issues of development, peace-building and conflict transformation as related to Aotearoa New Zealand, the Asia-Pacific and beyond, and to offer teaching, research and practice in peacebuilding.