Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 8 November
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting The leaders of the region are gathering in Rarotonga, Cook Islands for their 52nd… Read More
SDG 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions
Goal 16 aims to foster peaceful and inclusive societies, ensure justice for all, and establish effective, transparent, and inclusive institutions at every level. It seeks to create an environment where people, regardless of their ethnicity, faith, or sexual orientation, can live free from fear and feel safe in their daily lives, free from violence.
Griffith University is aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and committed to tackling global challenges around SDG 16 peace, justice and strong institutions. Below are some of our outputs supporting this goal.
Shared values: Pacific-led regionalism in the age of great power competition | Part 1
SEAN JACOBS | Dame Meg Taylor has written a recent thoughtful analysis on threats to Pacific-led regionalism from Beijing and Washington DC’s renewed… Read More
Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 25 October
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Tropical Cyclone Lola heads for Vanuatu Hard on the heels of the prediction that this upcoming cyclone season will see… Read More
Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 11 October
TESS NEWTON CAIN | A fortnighly summary of recent developments and news in the Pacific region. It covers various topics including the upcoming BRI Forum, Compact negotiations, Vanuatu's new Prime Minister, Pacific tourists caught in Israel violence, Forum Trade Ministers meeting in Fiji, and Tuvalu's new Constitution. Read More
Bigger moves, bigger expectations: Biden’s US-Pacific Island Forum Summit
SEAN JACOBS | An insightful analysis of the recent US-Pacific Island Forum Summit and highlights two important observations. The author effectively discusses the notable absence of the Solomon Islands Prime Minister due to his ties with Beijing and emphasises the need to balance Washington's security concerns with the development priorities of the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Read More
Myanmar military nuclear ambitions: Fact or fiction?
ANDREW SELTH | A front page story in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2009 confidently predicted that within five years Myanmar would have its… Read More
What might Australia learn from the Nijjar affair and the breakdown in Canada–India relations?
IAN HALL | Justin Trudeau’s announcement that Canadian authorities suspect India had some role in the killing of Sikh separatist leader … Read More
Duelling battle networks: The new equilibrium
PETER LAYTON | With digital technology omnipresent, future major wars will most likely pivot around duelling battle networks. These complicated systems represent unique target sets best attacked through using system of system thinking and emerging ideas of cognitive warfare. Particularly given China’s “systems confrontation” focus, attacking battle networks is an idea that can’t be neglected. Time to think deeply about it. Read More
The first casualty of war is the truth: Myanmar casualty statistics may be skewed
ANDREW SELTH | Since the latest civil war began in Myanmar in 2021, elements of the opposition movement have been making increasingly bold claims about its battlefield successes and the problems facing the military regime. Some of these claims need to be treated very carefully. Read More
Southeast Asia snapshot #58
SOVINDA PO | Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam rejected China’s new map China published a new version of its national map on… Read More
