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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
GOUVERNANCE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT INSULAIRE (GDI) AND PACIFIC ISLANDS POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (PIPSA)
UNIVERSITY OF FRENCH POLYNESIA, TAHITI, 3-5 JUNE 2014
CONFERENCE THEME: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND LEGAL GOVERNANCE IN PACIFIC STATES AND TERRITORIES
DAY ONE: 3 JUNE
Registration
Opening by chief guest:
Setting the scene: UPF chief organiser and PIPSA President
Keynote Address: Stewart Firth (ANU)
Morning Tea
Plenary: Pacific Economies
Facilitator: Sémir Al Wardi (UPF)
Christian Montet and Florent Venayre (UPF) - Regulation of competition in Pacific Islands: Comparative analysis
Bernard Poirine (UPF) - Sharing versus accumulation, the cultural ecology of Polynesians and Chinese hakka values in modern Tahiti
Marc Jaillot (UPF) - Specificities of territories and entrepreneurial creativity/Spécificités des territoires et créativité entrepreneuriale
Yvonne Underhill-Sem (Auckland) and Catherine Ris (UNC) - Women's success from school to labour market
12.30-1.30 Lunch
8.30-9.00
9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00
10.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
11.00-12.30
1.30-3.00 Parallel Session A: Women and Politics
Facilitator: Kerry Zubrinich (ANU)
Sulia Makasini (Tonga) - Women in Tonga’s Fale Alea: A case for parliamentary reform through reserved seats
Armelle Merceron (French Polynesia) - The Polynesian example: The advantages and disadvantages of mandatory parity for women in
politics
Kerryn Baker (ANU) - A failed experiment? Reserved seats for women in the parliament of the autonomous region of Bougainville
Parallel Session B: Governance Issues
Facilitator: Natacha Gagne (UPF)
Dalson Britto Figueiredo Filho, Enivaldo Carvalho da Rocha, Jose Antonio Guimaraes Lavareda Filho and Ranulfoi Paranhos (UFPE) Campaign finance in comparative perspective: A nested analysis approach
Alexander Mawyer (Hawaii) - The maladie du secret: Witnessing the nuclear state in French Polynesia
Nathalie Mrgudovic (UPF) - From the Melanesian Spearhead Group Forum for Pacific Island development: The regional strategy of the "big
men"/Du groupe de fer de lance Mélanésien au Forum pour le développement des îles du Pacifique : La stratégie régionale du «big men »
Justin Daniel (UPF) - The search for new models of governance in the TNI of the Caribbean: Between ascending logic, descending logic and
restructuring of the States/La quête de nouveaux modèles de gouvernance dans les TNI de la Caraïbes : Entre logique ascendante, logique
descendante et restructuration des Etats.
Brodney Seip (PNG) - Constraints to the growth of SMEs in PNG from a resource owned landowner company's perspective
Parallel Session C: External Forces and Foreign Policy Challenges
Facilitator: Malakai Koloamatangi (Massey)
Leopold Musiyan (UPF) - China, soft power and war of words
Dimitry Kochenov (Groningen) - EU Law in the Pacific: Learning from Bancoult (No. 3)
Karis Muller (ANU) - The Pacific: EU's environmental testing ground?
Alexander Stewart (Swinburne) - The impact of Fiji’s evolving foreign policy on multilateral relations in the Pacific Islands
Augusto da Silva (Queensland) - Food and agriculture development policies under foreign occupation and impact: The case of Timor-Leste?
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.30-5.00 Parallel Session A: Security Issues
Facilitator: Stewart Firth (ANU)
Michael Goldsmith (Waikato) - Monitoring and security in the Pacific
Lynda Tabuya (USP) - The new Fiji constitution and national security implications
Steve Ratuva (Auckland) - Redefining contemporary security discourse in Oceania
Philip Mitna (ANU) - The 'look north' policy and its implications on national security in Papua New Guinea
Nicole George (Queensland) - From ‘Jesus crusades’ to ‘zero tolerance’: policing gender violence and conjugal order in post-coup Fiji
Parallel Session B: Governance Issues
Facilitator: Stephanie Lawson (Macquarie)
Guylene Nicolas (UNC) - Public health governance in the Pacific island countries
Birtha Togahai (Niue)- Governance and the latest transformation of Niue's public sector framework
Sefanaia Sakai (USP) - National Governance on Native Land and its Impact on the Livelihood of the iTaukei in Fiji
Eva Wangihama (DWU) - Customary transaction of land between nationals and non-nationals alike in peri-urban areas of Madang Province
John Patu (Hawaii) - The role of diasporas in building the state and stabilizing the nation: The case of Samoa in Pacific contexts
Parallel Session C: Public Policy Issues
Facilitator: Iati Iati (Otago)
Diane Mara, Manutai Leaupepe, Seiuli Luama Sauni (Auckland) - History of Pacific early childhood education in Aotearoa NZ
Manutai Leaupepe (Auckland) - Politics of play: Exploring the economic and legal governance of early childhood education, NZ and the Cook
Islands
Meaola Amituanai-Toloa (Auckland) - Student talk and comprehension: Pedagogical challenge to Samoan bilingualism in NZ
Tim Fadgen (NUS/Auckland) - Building sustainable policy frameworks in Samoa through entrepreneurs
Andy Asquith and Andrew Cardow (Massey) - Accountability and innovation in public services: Role of elected officials in management of
second tier cities in NZ/Aotearoa
DAY TWO: 4 JUNE
9.00-10.30 Plenary: Politics of Identity, Governance and State-Building
Facilitator: Kate Hannan (Wollongong)
Stephanie Lawson (Macquarie) - Regionalism, sub-regionalism and the politics of identity in Oceania
Rudy Bessard (UPF): Democracy, leadership and transformations in the Pacific: Some examples from French Polynesia
Malakai Koloamatangi (Massey) - Thinking, speaking, and doing governance and democracy: The practicalities of popular government
Jean-Marc Regnault (UPF) - Autonomy and reason of the state: Improbable good governance/Autonomie et raison d’Etat: l'improbable
bonne gouvernance
10.30-11.00 Morning Tea
11.00-12.30 Plenary: Women and Politics
Facilitator: Kerry Zubrinich (ANU)
Nicole George (Queensland) - Kanak women in Parliament: Why the experiences of parity in New Caledonia hold lessons for the region
Lynda Tabuya (USP) - Pacific women in politics: Experiences, attitudes, obstacles
Eliane Tevahitua (French Polynesia) - Enabling and constraining factors shaping Pacific Island women's participation in decision-making
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Parallel Session A: Environmental Issues
Facilitator: Graeme Smith (ANU)
Antonino Troianiello (UPF)- Mining prospects in the EEZs of Pacific territories/Les perspectives minières de la ZEE des territoires du Pacifique
Emilie Chevalier (UPF) - Governance of environmental migration/La gouvernance des migrations climatiques
Hervé Lallemant (UPF) - Sovereignty and the law of the sea: The legal implications of rising water for Pacific small island states/
Souveraineté et droit de la mer, les implications légales de la montée des eaux pour les petits Etats insulaires du Pacifique
Parallel Session B: Governance Issues
Facilitator: Michael Goldsmith (Waikato)
Sémir Al Wardi (UPF) - Political beliefs: The case of self-proclamations in French Polynesia/Les croyances politiques : le cas des
autoproclamés en Polynésie française
Pierre-Yves Le Meur (IRD), Catherine Sabinot (IRD) and Jean Herrenschmidt (GIE Océanide)- The dynamics of land governance in New
Caledonia: between sovereignty, property and development
Natacha Gagne (UPF) - Redefining sovereignty: a glance at some dilemmas emerging in French Oceania
Alain Moyrand (UPF)- A contribution to the study of the administrative organisation of French Polynesia/Contribution à l’étude de
l’organisation administrative du territoire de la collectivité d’outre-mer de la Polynésie française
Parallel Session C: Economic Issues
Facilitator: Karis Muller (ANU)
Yann Rival (UPF), Laurence Franck (UPF) and JC Oulé - The rationale of fuel surcharge on air tickets and their effects on tourism
attractiveness. The case of French Polynesia
Vincent Dropsy (UPF) - Tourism in French Polynesia and the Pacific Islands/Le tourisme en Polynésie Française et dans le Pacifique
Gael Lagadec and Catherine Ris (UNC) - Is inequality harmful for economic development?
Zbigniew Dumienski (Auckland) - Prosperity under protection? Economic development in the Cook Islands and Niue through the lens of the
European microstates
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.30-5.00 Parallel Session A: Regionalism
Facilitator: Stewart Firth (ANU)
Iati Iati (Otago) - Transforming Regionalism: The Polynesian Leaders Groups and its implications for Pacific regionalism
Karina Guthrie (Macquarie) - Securitization and South Pacific aviation
Laïsa Ro’i (UPF)- Oceania trade regionalism in practice: Review of the MSGTA and the PICTA
Josie Tamate (Wollongong) - The Pacific tuna fishery - The experience of the parties to the Nauru Agreement
Parallel Session B: Governance Issues
Facilitator: Steve Ratuva (Auckland)
Evan Hynd (ANU) - Political governance and party dominance in Timor-Leste
Jorge Godinho (Macau) - Political and social gridlock in Tahiti and Macau: similarities and differences
Maru Talagi (Niue) - Nationhood and its challenges
Charles Cadoux (UPF) - A comparative analysis of governance in Madagascar and Mayotte/Analyse comparative de la gouvernance à
Madagascar et mayotte
Tim Fadgen (NUS/Auckland) - Arranged marriages: Policy transfer and policy development in Samoa
Parallel Session C: Youth, Education and Politics
Facilitator: Carine David (UNC)
Tamm Kingi (Auckland) - Using politics to advance youth wellbeing and cultural education
Seiuli Luama Sauni (Auckland) - Beginning at grassroots
Theresa Meki (ANU) - Young voters' perceptions about women's participation in PNG national politics
Hina Grepin (UPF) - Why the Tuamotuan Taurekareka are not involved in the political issues
Tim Baice (Auckland) - Interrogating the place of Pacific youth in the political governance of pacific States
Parallel Session D: Media, Social Media and Social Movements
Facilitator: Kerryn Baker (ANU)
Glen Finau (USP) - Examining the Impact of social media on e-democracy in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Joelson Anere (PNG Govt) - People-powered and non-violent social movements containing political factors that explains government
responsiveness
Melvin Kualawi (PNG Institute of Medical Research) - Engaging youths in social action through arts
5.00-6.30 Book Launch
DAY THREE: 5 JUNE
9.00-10.30 Plenary: Autonomy and Sovereignty in New Caledonia
Facilitator: Steve Ratuva (Auckland)
Mathias Chauchat (UNC) - The Achievement or the way out of the Noumea Agreement
Severine Blaise, Gerard Prinsen and Nicki Wrighton (UNC) - The complex nexus between development policy and sovereignty: The case of
New Caledonia
Hamid Mokaddem (UPF) - Governmentality and governance in New Caledonia/Gouvernementalité et gouvernance en Nouvelle Calédonie
Carine David (UNC) - May 2014 Local elections in the self-determination context of New Caledonia
10.30-11.00 Morning Tea
11.00-12.30 Plenary: Looking North - China in the Pacific
Facilitator: Leopold Musiyan (UPF)
Stewart Firth (ANU) and Kate Hannan (Wollongong) - Trading with the dragon: Chinese trade, investment and aid in the South Pacific
Graeme Smith (ANU) - Who leads? Challenges and opportunities for aid cooperation in the Pacific
Matthew Dornan (ANU) and Philippa Brant (Lowy Institute) - Active agents, passive recipients? Negotiation of Chinese development
assistance by Pacific Island Governments
12.30-1.30 Lunch
PIPSA AGM
1.30-3.00 Parallel Session A: Women and Politics
Facilitator: Nicole George (Queensland)
Kerry Zubrinich (ANU) - TBC
Alex Botu (PNG) - Papua New Guinea women in politics: Conflict mapping and analysis of the controversial bill on the 22 reserved seats for
women in Parliament
Birtha Togahai (Niue) - Niue Women yet to break into the male stronghold of Niue Legislative Assembly
Measina Meredith (NUS) - Factors preventing women entering electoral politics in Samoa
Dorosday Dhressen (Vanuatu) - The role of WiSDM coalition in legislative reform - 30% quota for women's representation within
municipality councils of Vanuatu
Parallel Session B: Heritage and Discipline Specific Mentoring - Roundtable Discussion
Participants: Diane Mara, Ulu Nawaqavanua, Tamm Kingi, Tim Baice (University of Auckland)
Parallel Session C: Constitutional and Political Challenges
Facilitator: Sémir Al Wardi (UPF)
Romitesh Kant (USP) - A people's constitution? A critical analysis of public participation in the 2012-2013 constitution-making process in Fiji
Aman Ravindra Singh (USP) - General elections 1972-2014: A comparative analysis of Fiji's past, present and future electoral systems
Scott Robertson (ANU) - Citizens of France in the Pacific: An examination of the competing conceptions of citizenship in New Caledonia
Arnaud Busseuil (Sciences Po Aix, Cherpa)- Should there be a referendum on self-determination in French Polynesia?/Faut-il un référendum
d’autodétermination en Polynésie française ?
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.30-4.30 Media-type panel: The future of Pacific governance?
Facilitator: Steve Ratuva
Participants: Stewart Firth, Leopold Musiyan, Stephanie Lawson, Iati Iati, Mathias Chauchat
Close of Conference

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