Our new #SpecialReport by Negar Ashtari Abay, Kathleen R. Kuehnast, PhD, Gordon Peake and Melissa Demian identifies approaches for reducing gender-based violence and effecting meaningful and lasting change in #PapuaNewGuinea . In honor of #IWD2024 , read the report: usip.org/publications/2…

TOMORROW: At 9am EDT, PNG National Research Institute (PNGNRI)'s Elizabeth Kopel and William Kipongi and Barnard College's Professor Paige West will join our Gordon Peake to discuss ways to develop more fruitful efforts to tamp down violence in #PapuaNewGuinea .

Register to attend here: usip.org/events/local-a…

Pleased to see my former colleagues William Kipongi and Dr Elizabeth Kopel keeping up the evidence based advocacy on sorcery accusation related violence in certain parts of Papua New Guinea. Of course with the fabulous@PaigeWestNYC

This paper by Dame Meg Taylor explores the challenges Pacific-led regionalism faces as it grapples with this evolving external power dynamic alongside our own international challenges of unity.
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I'm going to be moderating this important discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Kopel, William Kipongi & Professor Paige West

Register and join us !

Aretha Brown’s latest mural in Timor Leste. It inspired local artists who came & did 4 of their own. Afterwards we organised a big gig with local bands. I couldn’t help myself & jumped up with comrade Gil Santos 4 a Dili Allstars set! Awesome! 👍🕺

'Read, read, read! Read everything—trash, classics, good & bad & see how they do it. Like a carpenter who apprentices & studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.'

happy birthday William Faulkner

At 5 mins in I contribute to a story of the Timorese that - like so many Irish people before them - have moved abroad for a better life. They have moved to close to where I was born

RTTL,EP - RTTL WORLD NEWS || 23-09-2023 (LIVE STREAM) youtube.com/live/7qAqREquj… via YouTube

While it’s tempting to look at competition with China in the Pacific as a point-scoring game, such an approach is of limited value, write Gordon Peake and Camilla Pohle. usip.org/publications/2… #PacificIslands Pacific Islands Forum

Good advice from Gordon Peake and Camilla Pohle in advance of the second U.S.-Pacific Island Forum Summit, which President Biden will host at the White House on Monday

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Thank you, Joseph .

Even though it has been - gulp, 27 years since I left - Northern Ireland will always feel home. So nice to be back, even for a flying visit.

Increasingly wish I could be one of those people who ‘divides their time between….’

Drinks with a fellow in an airport lounge with a ‘Route 65’ tattoo are most surely good for anecdotes .

Fascinating analysis of Vanuatu's politics today from Kiery Manassah on devpolicy.org: devpolicy.org/how-kalsakaus-…

For decades 'blue zones', places like Okinawa and Sardinia where people live unusually long lives, have fascinated researchers. Turns out the secret wasn't diet or mindset - it was pension fraud & clerical error. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're getting season 2 in the works! Check out the story-map too. Like a good book, lots of nuggety detail

Uni of Adelaide Michael Rose - infrastructure (including a tour of Port Moresby's site of statecraft by Gordon Peake and _godfree_)
- soft power, including scholarships, language training, churches, state media, and social media
- security cooperation
- people-to-people links
- tourism 2/

Uni of Adelaide Michael Rose Our StoryMap includes stories about:
- the diplomatic presence of partner states and diplomatic visits
- regional forums and agreements
- trade agreements and activities
- humanitarian assistance and disaster relief 1/

Pleased to launch an update to our Uni of Adelaide Statecraftiness StoryMap about what tools of statecraft partner states are deploying in the Pacific Islands.
Michael Rose
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Another day, another secret? 🤷‍♂️.

The Attorney-General’s Department have just advised me that the National Archives wants Mark Dreyfus to issue a secrecy certificate over evidence they want to use to oppose public access to historical (2001) Timor-Leste related docs. #auspol