EDITORIAL: Culture and conflict
Pacific Journalism Review, 2001 One of the many ironies of Fiji's May 2000 general election was the demise of one of the "godfathers" of the indigenous Taukei movement, Apisai Tora. The man who was once a firebrand trade unionist and who jointly led the 1959 oil workers' strike, later ...
David Robie
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The challenges in protecting public health interests in multisectoral governance in the context of small island developing states: the case of tobacco control in Fiji and Vanuatu. [PDF]
Global Health, 2023 Patay D, Schram A, Friel S.
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Tourist experience at port and town: assessing cruiser satisfaction during self-organized onshore excursions at Lautoka Port, Fiji, in 2018-2019. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Kundra S +5 more
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Paradise exposed: Is the region's Fourth Estate up to it?
Pacific Journalism Review, 2001 Should the local press bear some of the responsibility for the political turmoil that has engulfed the South Pacific, asks this article in the first of a series of regional perspectives on crises and how the news media have handled them.
Mary-Louise O'Callaghan
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The 2006 Fiji Coup and Impact on Human Security
Journal of Human Security, 2008 Melanesia has experienced instability and violence in recent years, as symbolised by the 2006 Fiji coup. This article reviews the coup and concludes that it has negatively impacted upon key factors that influence Fiji's human security - the economy, the quality of life, and human rights. It also concludes that Fiji faces an uncertain future.
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Photoessay: Melanesian mythical places with unreported conflicts: A portrait
Pacific Journalism Review, 2014 As a photojournalist who has lived and journeyed through the ‘Black Islands’, Vanuatu resident Ben Bohane was drawn to them because they still seemed like mythical and remote places in an increasingly familiar world, while many of their conflicts went ...
Ben Bohane
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Constitutional Engineering in Post‐Coup Fiji
, 2002 AbstractAnalyses the historical background to the constitutional crisis that flared up in Fiji in 1987, when a military coup, led by native Fijians, overthrew a government democratically elected by a majority immigrant population. It then discusses the issues that led to the Fiji Constitution of 1990, and that continue to engage the attention of the ...
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Coup Culture: The Military and the Failure of Constitutionalism in Fiji
Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 2011 Fiji's Interim Military Government has now been in power for nearly five years. Since that time elections have been promised for 2014, but whether those elections will take place, or how they will be carried out in practice, remains to be seen. This paper is a focus on the checks and balances on the Military Forces in Fiji, and how those could be ...
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Climate change and coastal resiliency of Suva, Fiji: a holistic approach for measuring climate risk using the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI). [PDF]
Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Chang, 2023 Shiiba N +6 more
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