International   Colloquium
22 ‐ 24   October   2009   –   Centre   IRD   de   Nouméa
Theme
“Changing   Oceania   –   Pacific   issues   and   polities:   towards   the   state   of   the   region   in   2009”
DAY   I   ‐  Thursday   22   October
16.00
–   18.00:   Meeting  ‐  Colloquium   members   and   AGORA   II   participants.
DAY   II   –   Friday   23   October
8.30
–   8.45:   Opening
Development,   Regionalism   and   Security
8.45
–   9.45:   Regional   Economy   –   the   Global   Financial   Crisis   and   the   South   Pacific
Jon   Fraenkel
Discussion
9.45
–   10.15:   Morning   Tea
10.15
–   11.00:   Millennium   Development   Goals   and   the   Pacific   –   2009   Update
Linda   Petersen
Discussion
and   Gerald   Haberkorn
11.00
–   12.30:   Relative   Status   of   Women   and   Men   in   Development   and   Leadership
in   the   Pacific.
Treva   Braun
Pacific   Women   in   Leadership   and   Power   –   Emerging   Trends?
Asenati   Liki
Discussion
12.30
–   13.30:   Lunch
13.30
–   15.00:   Rural   Development   –   back   on   the   agenda?
Matthew   Allen
Tourism   Issues   and   Patterns   in   the   Pacific
Susana   Taua’a
Mining   Impacts
Sonia   Grochain
15.00
–   15.30:   Afternoon   Tea

15.30
–   16.30:   Regional   Security   and   the   Big   Powers
James   Bunce   (SDSC,   ANU)
Discussion :   Helene   Goiran,   David   Hegarty
16.30
–   1700:   Regionalism   –   Promise   and   Performance
Henry   Ivarature
DAY   III   –   Saturday   24   October
Politics,   Governance   and   Democracy
Country   Analytical   Snapshots :
8.30
–   10.00:   New   Caledonia:   Jean ‐ Yves   Faberon,   Armand   Hage
French   Polynesia:   Semir   Al   Wardi,   Serge   Tcherkezoff
10.00
–   10.30
Morning   Tea
10.30
–   12.00
Samoa:       Afamasaga
Asenati   Liki
Toleafoa,   Susana   Taua’a,
Jon   Fraenkel,   Helene   Goiran   Fiji:
12.00
–   13.00:   Lunch
13.00
‐  14.30:   Papua   New   Guinea:   Henry   Ivarature,    David   Hegarty
Solomons:     Gordon   Nanau,    Matthew   Allen
Vanuatu:     Gregoire   Nimbtik,   Darrell   Tryon
Themes,   Trends,   Assessments
14.30
–   15.30:   Plenary   Discussion   –   (Indicative   topics   and   commentators)
Indicators   and   assessments   (Hegarty,   Ivarature,   Bunce)
Conflict/resolution/intervention/state   bldg   (Nanau,   Al   Wardi,   Allen)
Evolving   political   styles   and   nature   of   regimes  ‐  inc.
elites   and   power,      national   &   local   levels   of   government   (Toleafoa,   Tryon,   Hage)
Social   capital   and   civil   society   (Liki,   Taua’a,   Tcherkezoff)
Donor   policies   &   strategies   (Fraenkel,   Nimbtik,   Ivarature)
15.30
–   16.00:   Afternoon   Tea
16.00
–   16.30:    Plenary   Discussion   continues
16.30
–   16.45:   Colloquium   Outcomes   and   Policy   Recommendations   –
Rapporteurs’   key   points.
16.45
–   17.00:   Closing   Session
Contacts:   David.Hegarty@anu.edu.au
and/or   Darrell.Tryon@anu.edu.au
This   Colloquium   is   supported   by   the   Fonds   Pacifique   of   the   French   Government   and   the   Centre   for
Democratic   Institutions,   the   Pacific   Centre   and   the   State,   Society   &   Governance   in   Melanesia
Program   of   the   Australian   National   University.
(13   October   2009)