Aotearoa as a progressive voice in the international community?
Learn about New Zealand Alternative’s work as an independent organisation promoting a progressive role for Aotearoa New Zealand in the world.
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Description
Co-directors Evelyn Marsters and Thomas Nash will introduce New Zealand Alternative’s work and pose some important questions about the role and place of our South Pacific nation in the world. The organisation works creatively and inclusively to discuss and shape an active international role for Aotearoa that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi, challenges structures of power and inequality and promotes environmental and social justice. It proposes and promotes practical and imaginative ideas for Aotearoa's role on the global stage grounded in progressive values and evidence.
NZA is also keen to engage young people to seek out fresh voices and diverse perspectives on the role Aotearoa should play in the world. The idea is to reach beyond traditional trade and diplomacy experts to listen to the experiences and amplify the voices of artists, musicians, activists, sportspeople and others in their representation of Aotearoa in the world. Come find out how you can get involved!
Speaker Bios
Evelyn Marsters, a NZ-born Cook Islander, is a Pacific research specialist with a PhD in development studies. Her portfolio includes work on the political economy of Cook Islands remittances, transnational responses to health service access, the Auckland Regional Economic Development Strategy, and Maori and Pacific access to information technology education, Pacific seasonal labour migration, and climate-induced migration. Her enduring research interests are in the Pacific development issues of migration, climate change, health, gender studies, youth empowerment, and labour market access.
Thomas Nash is an elected Councillor on the Wellington Greater Regional Council, holding the climate portfolio. He has a background in organising and campaigning, including leading the global campaign to ban cluster bombs, co-founded and directed London-based disarmament group Article 36, and served on the board of the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He is also Massey University’s inaugural Social Entrepreneur in Residence.
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For more information contact: Linsell Richards, Wellington University International
linsell.richards@vuw.ac.nz 04 463 7459