Climate Security workshop delivered at the Fiji Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration, Suva, Fiji Islands
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INVITED TALKS
INVITED TALKS
2025| The Soft Power of Non-Western Small States.
2025| Redefining Regional Influence: The agency of Pacific island states in addressing the existential threat of climate change. 59th Otago Foreign Policy School, the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2025| Lead Speaker on Building Resilience to Climate Change during the Fiji 1.5 Dialogue on Enhancing Australia and India Cooperation with Indo-Pacific Island States, organised by the Australian India Institute and the University of the South Pacific supported by the Australian Government's Department of Defence.
2024| Pacific Climate Diplomacy, organised by the International Office at the University of the South Pacific for the Global Immersion Guarantee Programme offered by Monash University (Australia) in Suva, Fiji.
2024| Great Power Competition and Pacific Islands' Responses. Invited by the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2024| Understanding International Relations Theories: Constructivism. Invited by the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science & Islamic Studies, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran.
2024| Political (in)Stability in the Pacific. Invited by the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
2023| Climate Security. Invited by the Fiji Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration, Suva, Fiji Islands.
2023| Special Panel Discussion: One Year Since Russia's Invasion of Ukraine. Organised by the University of the South Pacific and the European Union at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands.
2020| Political power of non-Western small states and the ontological (in)security of Pacific island countries in the context of climate change. Political Science Department, The Univeristy of Utah in the United States.
2020| Exploring new horizons: the nexus of climate change and religion in Samoa. Centre for Small States in London, United Kingdom. With Rev. Dr Latu Latai.
2020| The ontological security of Pacific island countries and the islanders in the context of climate change. Malua Theological College in Samoa.
2020| Ontological Security in the Context of Climate Change, Centre for Samoa Studies, National University of Samoa in Samoa.
2015 | Soft Power Through Narration: The Case of Qatar, American Political Science Association MENA Workshop, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
2015 | Standing Tall on the Wings of Gross National Happiness, Workshop on ‘Non-Western Small States: What Agency in an Unequal World?’, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, London, United Kingdom.
INVITED WOKSHOPS
INVITED WOKSHOPS
2024| Participant Pacific Security Dialogue organised by the University of the South Pacific and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji.
2024| I designed and ran a workshop on Developing Skills for High-Impact Journal Publication for the Global Development Conference which was organised by the Global Development Network and The University of the South Pacific and the Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji.
2024| Participant Proposal Writing Talanoa Session, organised by the Research Office at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
2023| I designed and ran a workshop on Practical Academic Writing for postgraduate students at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.
2023| I designed and ran a workshop on Thesis Writing for the University of the South Pacific and the Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands.
2022| I designed and ran a workshop on Proposal Writing for the University of the South Pacific and the Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands.
2015| I designed and ran a workshop on Collecting and Managing Data for postgraduate students at Newcastle University, United Kindom.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS AS PRESENTER
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS AS PRESENTER
2025| Small States Reconsidered: Small Is What WE Make of It, 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Seoul, South Korea.
2024| A Window of Opportunity: The United States-China battle for influence in the Pacific, China in the World Forum, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2024| Regional Climate and Ocean Strategies, Policies and Frameworks, Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2023| The ontological (in)security of Fijians in the context of sea-level rise, the 1st Archipelagic & Island States Forum Research and Development Conference: Advancing the Blue Frontier on Innovative Ocean Science, Bali, Indonesia.
2023| Regional Climate and Ocean Strategies, Policies and Frameworks, Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA), Nadi, Fiji.
2022| Regional Climate and Ocean Strategies, Policies and Frameworks, Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2021| The geopolitics of non-Western small states: explaining Bhutanese and Nepalese foreign policies through role theory, Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.
2020| Negotiating Territorial Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Sea-level Rise in Tuvalu, International Conference of the Commission on Legal Pluralism, Brisbane, Australia.
2020| Understanding climate change in Samoa, annual conference of the British International Studies Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Paper co-authored with Rev. Dr Latu Latai.
2020| The geopolitics of non-Western small states: explaining Bhutanese and Nepalese foreign policies through role theory, annual conference of the British International Studies Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Paper co-authored with Dr Bibek Chand.
2019 | Qatar: An agent of change or stuck in the international system?, Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada.
2017 | Credibility Fault Lines in Qatari Strategic Narratives, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, United States.
2016 | Soft Power Through Narration, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, United States.
2016 | Soft Power Through Narration: The Case of Qatar, World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Sports as Politics through other means: Qatar’s pursuit of status and the 2022 World Cup, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2015 | The Quest of the Thunder Dragon: The silent scream of Bhutan’s soft power in today’s tumult, Postgraduate Conference of the British International Studies Association, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
2013 | Bhutan’s Soft Power Journey in a World of ‘Great Powers’, First European Workshops in International Studies of the European International Studies Association, Tartu, Estonia.
2013| Punching Above their Weight in World Politics: The soft power of small states, Politics Postgraduate Conference, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS AS CONVENER/ORGANISER
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS AS CONVENER/ORGANISER
2025| Convener of a panel titled 'The Diplomacies of Non-Western Small States', 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Seoul, South Korea.
2017 | Convener of a panel titled ‘Legitimacy, Soft Power, and Authority’, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, United States.
2016 | Convener of a panel titled ‘Small States in a World of Inequality: Agential Power vs. Structural Constraints’, World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association in Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Co-convener of a panel titled ‘Small state foreign policy between power politics’, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2016| Co-organiser of a Workshop titled 'Life after PhD, Governance Research Cluster, Politics Department, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
2014| Co-organiser of a workshop titled 'Soft Power of Hard States', Politics Department, Newcastle Univeristy, United Kingdom.
2013| Co-organiser of the Humanities and Social Science first year interdisciplinary postgraduate conference titled 'Breaking Boundaries' at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
2013| Co-organiser Politics postgraduate conference titled 'Glances at the Political', Politics Department, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
CONFERENCES AS CHAIR
CONFERENCES AS CHAIR
2025| Chair of a panel titled 'The Diplomacies of Non-Western Small States', 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Seoul, South Korea.
2020| Chair of a panel titled 'Foreign Policy in and toward Asia', annual conference of the British International Studies Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
2016 | Chair of a panel titled ‘Small States in a World of Inequality: Agential Power vs. Structural Constraints’, World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland.
CONFERENCES AS DISCUSSANT
CONFERENCES AS DISCUSSANT
2016 | Discussant for a panel titled ‘Small States in a World of Inequality: Agential Power vs. Structural Constraints’ at the World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association in Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Discussant for a panel titled ‘Power and Governance in an Uneven World’ at the World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association in Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Discussant for a panel titled ‘Small state foreign policy between power politics’, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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