National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) is New Zealand’s first Centre to combine global cross-disciplinary expertise on the issues of development, peace-building and conflict transformation.
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Recent Deposits
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‘No Spy Waihopai’: How does Praxis Inform the Theories of Pragmatic Nonviolence?
This research attempts to analyse whether the praxis of a failed nonviolence campaign informs Gene Sharp’s pragmatic nonviolence theories. It summarises the theory into an eleven point checklist, and then outlines the ... -
The Success of Online Activism in China: A Comparative Case Study
The aim of this study is to determine what drives the success of online-supported social movements in China. Research into understanding the rising phenomenon of online activism remains limited to date. While scholarship ... -
Nothing about us, without us: The pursuit of inclusive and accessible positive peace
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world; a minority that continues to face high instances of direct, structural and cultural violence during times of peace, as well as during times of conflict and ... -
Envisioning an Anarcho-Pacifist Peace: A case for the convergence of anarchism and pacifism and an exploration of the Gandhian movement for a stateless society
The primary aim of peace and conflict studies is to build a world that is free from the suffering that results from violence in all of its forms. No political theories pursue this more than pacifism and anarchism: pacifism ... -
Authoritarian Politics and the Outcome of Nonviolent Uprisings
This thesis examines how the internal dynamics of authoritarian regimes influence the outcome of mass nonviolent uprisings. Although research on civil resistance has identified several factors explaining why campaigns ... -
Faa Samoa: Peacebuilder or Peacebreaker? Understanding Samoa's Domestic Violence Problem: A Peace and Conflict Perspective.
Over the past 30 years, Samoa has been a model example of peace and stability throughout the Pacific region. The fusion of traditional (fono o matai and faamatai) and western institutions (Westminster style of democracy) ... -
Peace, violence, and the everyday in the Maoist conflict in Junglemahal, India
At the local level, violent conflict and peace are part of ordinary people’s everyday life. During a conflict, local people are faced with everyday challenges that constantly require making choices and taking action, some ... -
The Hidden Potential of the Palestinian Resistance in Israel: A Grounded Theory Study on Resistance among Palestinian Activists in Israel
After nearly seventy years of adopting the same tools of protest, either by taking part in the Israeli political system through participation in elections or practicing cultural resistance, Palestinian activists feel that ... -
Facilitation, Imposition, or Impairment?: The Role of Bridging Networks on Peacebuilding of Local Religious Leaders in the Deep South of Thailand
The peacebuilding potential of local religious leaders in conflict is well established within the peacebuilding literature. To date, most studies have focused on the impact of religious factors on the peacebuilding of ... -
Arts, Peacebuilding and Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Parihaka, Mindanao and Nairobi
In the last two decades, research on the ‘power of the arts’ in building peace has increased to a level where one can legitimately make the claim that there now exists an emerging, or perhaps even a resurgent, academic ... -
Colonial Continuities - A study of anti-racism in Aotearoa New Zealand and Spain
Drawing on critical race and decolonial theory, the thesis seeks to interrogate the lack of engagement in anti-racist work and Peace and Conflict Studies literature with race and colonialism as structuring mechanisms of ... -
Military Order Disobedience: An Analysis of Personal and Political Transformation
The discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies attempts, in part, to understand the origins of conflicts and to propose strategies of intervention aimed at transforming the attitudes of the conflicting parties. However, ... -
Fanohge Famalåo’an & Fan’tachu Fama’lauan: Women Rising Indigenous Resistance to Militarization in the Marianas Archipelago
This project examines how Indigenous women nonviolently resist the invisible and visible sexist and environmental politics of everyday and expanding militarization by the United States in the Marianas Archipelago. As ... -
The Theory and Practice of Emancipatory Counterterrorism
In response to the 9/11 attacks, the US declared a global war on terror to fight and stop terrorists. Immediately, the Global War on Terror was dominated by the use of military force and violence, and replete with nefarious ... -
Social Justice Narrative and the Mainstreaming of Fair Trade Globalisation within the market or alternative globalisation: assessing the radical hiding in plain view
Fair Trade faces challenges of both growth and placement within or beside a global system that is increasingly dominated by vertically integrated corporate players, certification labelling and the marketing of ethical ... -
Owning Peace: Assessing the Impact of Local Ownership of Police Reforms on Post-conflict Peace
In the aftermath of armed conflict the (re) establishment of well-functioning and legitimate security institutions is touted as fundamental for the development of sustainable peace. Post-conflict police reform, often carried ... -
War, Identity, and Inherited Responsibility in Sino-Japanese Relations
Groups in conflict develop different and often contesting interpretations of the past, particularly if that history involves a violent injustice. How both perpetrator and victimised groups deal with their past history is ... -
Civil Society Activists in a Protracted Conflict: Explaining Differences in Motivation to Engage in Intergroup Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
The conceptualization of peacebuilding has broadened beyond institutional considerations in recent decades, leading to increased recognition of the role played by civil society actors in contributing to sustainable peace ... -
Ownership of Resource Extraction and Violence: How private versus state-owned resource extraction effects the severity of violence
The relationship between natural resources and conflict has been extensively scrutinised in the field of peace and conflict studies. However, the effect of the ownership structure of resource extraction on violence requires ... -
Access to Justice in the Wake of War, Rule of Law Programming and Customary Justice in Post-conflict Bougainville
Following civil war, (re)establishing operational, legitimate and accessible justice systems for resolving disputes is touted as critical for sustainable peace. Rule of law programmes carried out by actors such as United ...