20
Sep
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: The grid is here - India's government-led energy paradigm and the role of micro-level off-grid providers
India recently celebrated a significant milestone with respect to energy access when it was announced that 100% of villages in the country were electrified. However, this achievement is diluted by a more sobering reality: 305 million people in India are still without access to electricity. âThis presentation sheds light on this discrepancy, exploring definitions of both "village' and "electrification', which reveal that connections don't equate to access or âuse.
13
Sep
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Myanmar's armed forces and the Rohingya crisis
Despite the high hopes that followed the 2015 elections, Myanmar has stepped back into its dark past. This poses real challenges for the international community.â
Drawing on his recent report for the United States Institute of Peace, Dr Andrew Selth argues that unless attitudes inside Myanmar shift significantly, a fair and durable solution to the Rohingya question, let alone a full, public and legal accounting for past events, will remain a distant prospect.
06
Sep
Perspectives:Asia Lecture: Referenda on independence in New Caledonia and the autonomous region of Bougainville
Violent conflicts in New Caledonia (1980s) and Bougainville (1990s) were ended by political settlements between France and New Caledonia, and Papua New Guinea and Bougainville and could result in creation of two new small and potentially wealthy (mineral rich) Pacific states before the end of the current decade.Our panellists will share their insights on the upcoming referendums the role Australia can play as a near neighbor, within this historic process.
06
Sep
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Hierarchies of misery in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines
Whose suffering counts in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines? In this presentation, Nicole Curato enquires into the unequal distribution of compassion among "communities of misery' in a nation that has been beset with a series of tragedies. I compare two case studies: disaster survivors from Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 and the families left behind by police and vigilante killings of Duterte's controversial war on drugs.
30
Aug
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Modelling the international end game
Most social systems operate within a chronological order that includes a beginning, middle and end. Substantial research has considered this temporal paradigm but surprisingly, few studies have focused specifically on the end game. I. William Zartman led a group of negotiation scholars in Montenegro resulting in a manuscript that will be published later this year. In this seminar, Dr Larry Crump will present a chapter from this book that examines bilateral trade treaty negotiations.
23
Aug