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Media Release: The New Zealand Centre for Global Studies to continue work of The Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence
The New Zealand Centre for Global Studies (the Centre) has been announced as the new home to continue the vital work in global citizenship education previously delivered by The Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence (CAPEs). The Centre will establish a hub of excellence...
International Law Internship Opportunity
International Law Internship Opportunity with the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies International People’s Tribunal for the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing...
[Watch] Public Talk on the Global Politics of Nuclear Policy
On the 24th of May, 2024, the Centre hosted Cassandra Varanka (Peace Fellow, University of Queensland) for a public talk on the global politics of nuclear deterrence and disarmament policy. As well as a range of people in person, we were joined by participants online...
Symposium on Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament
On 8-9 August, the Centre, in collaboration with the Toda Peace Institute (Tokyo), convened a Symposium at the University of Auckland. The primary subject was: Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Conflicting perspectives in an age of tension The symposium was marked...
Humanity Is One Minute From Midnight
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it may be necessary to move the Doomsday Clock forward to just one minute to midnight. The world needs a new global security architecture to constrain nuclear weapons, hypersonic missiles, killer pathogens, and the mounting...
Blair Knighthood Shows How History Does Mockery
Proving that history does irony, banks that once feared masked robbers now fear mask-free customers. But does history also do mockery? The 1984 Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away on Boxing Day in Cape Town. Almost a decade ago, Tutu refused to...
Global Governance in the Existential Age – Part 2
Part I of this blog identified the conceptual insights which members and affiliates of the Centre, and invited guests, have offered on the modern plight of the human condition, and of potential ways forward. As Director of the Centre for eight years (and stepping down...
Global Governance in the Existential Age – Part 1
The Centre has been privileged this month to host some valuable commentary on the challenge of global governance. On 6 December the Climate Minister, Hon James Shaw, gave the 8th NZCGS Annual Global Lecture, by webinar with 292 registered participants. His address...
8th NZCGS Annual Global Affairs Lecture
The 8th NZCGS annual global affairs lecture was held on 6 December 2021. The lecture was given by New Zealand’s Minister of Climate Change, Hon James Shaw.
Climate Change and Global Governance
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021. While tangible progress was made both inside and outside the formal negotiations, the world still...
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