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Welcome! and URGENT VISA Information!!

​Celebrating sixty years since International Peace Research Association was first founded in 1964, the 30th IPRA biennial conference, warmly welcomes you to join the largest body of global peace researchers, students, academics and community-based practitioners to Aotearoa New Zealand from 5-8 November 2025.  The conference theme is “Peace, Resistance and Reconciliation | Te Rongo i Tau, Te Riri i Tū and Te Ringa i Kotuia” will gather inspiring thought leaders of activists, artists, community practitioners and researchers to reflect on the intersection of peace, resistance and reconciliation.

 

We welcome all participants to this conference to bring their visionary research and ideas to share with like-minded community.  Māori are the Indigenous Polynesian people of Aotearoa and consider the Māori village of Parihaka Pā to be the birthplace of non-violence resistance.  Here, Māori resistance to colonisation became a genesis of a worldwide, non-violence movement that spread to India, the Americas, and throughout the world. 

 

Almost sixty years of peace advocacy has advanced the struggles of many people who have experienced injustice, genocide, racism and colonization.  We call on students, communities and researchers to ignite the call for peace, cultural, social, psychological, physical and spiritual wellbeing for all beings living on this shared planet. The 2025 IPRA General Conference welcomes leadership change makers and flax/ grass roots initiatives to share in local, national and international wisdom amongst the gathered collective. 

 

Our conference takes place near Parihaka Pā, once a thriving village and the seedbed of passive resistance within Aotearoa New Zealand.  This conference will begin at another special space, Ōwae Marae, located on the site of the ancient Manukorihi Pā. We will then move to the Devon Hotel, in New Plymouth 5-8 November 2025 for the conference proceedings.  Taranaki is an important region of Aotearoa New Zealand, as it was the place where the New Zealand Land wars began in 1860 between Europeans and Māori.  The land holds both the memory of love, pain and forgiveness – a recipe for reaching our highest selves and known wisdom. 

           

 

Thematic Areas of: “Peace, Resistance, Reconciliation"

"Te Rongo i Tau, Te Riri i Tū, Te Ringa i Kotuia”

 

• Building peace movements for justice: experiences, theory and methods

• Creative spaces to grow peace and justice

• Healing wounds, histories and hearts

• Holistic healing for shared planet stewardship

• Indigenous wisdom and peace

• Interculturality and ethical communities 

• Movements of antiwar and political violence

• Peace, education and justice

• Reconciling past grievances for a shared future

• Regenerating restorative justice and community building

• Rethinking sustainability for peace and justice or

• Transformational non-violence movements

• Youth-led and community peace activism

 

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