2008 Conference Videos

Following on from our previous Conferences in 2004 and 2006, the Traditional Knowledge Conference 2008, focused on traditional indigenous concepts, values, ideals, models and strategies for sustaining balanced and healthy relationships within and across families, communities, nations, nation-states, local, regional and global borders, territories and environments.

Family violence prevention in Northland by Di Grennell	Passive resistance at Takaparawhau, Bastion Point, 30 years ago by Grant Hawke	VNon-violent resistance at Parihaka in the 1880s by Dr Huirangi Waikerepuru	Law-full women: the sovereignty of Aboriginal women's law, its colonisation and the possibility of the journey towards decolonisation to the place of law-full woman by Dr Irene Watson	Preventing the effects of the colonial dome of thinking' as it continues to assimilate Aboriginal knowledge by Jim Everett
E nānā i ka hoa kanaka o kipa hewa ke aloha i ka 'īlio: Attend to your fellow humans lest your love be wasted on dogs by Dr Laiana Wong	Opening Address by Professor Linda Tuwhiwai Smith	Tālanga: the Tongan common people's critical talk in Aotearoa, New Zealand by Dr Linitā Manu'atu, Lita Foliaki, Sioni Tu'itahi, James Manisela Prescott	he Ngāti Kahungunu Violence-free Iwi Strategy by Mereana Pitman	Closing Address by Professor Michael Walker
Restoring the nation, removing the constancy of terror by Moana Jackson	Harvesting peace from a field of conflict by Patricio Dominquez	The Great Healing: reflections on the spirituality and ceremonies of peace in native America by Father Paul Ojibway	Working hard to make stubborn issues peaceful by Sir Paul Reeves	Te Whānau Awhina: a Māori model of restorative justice for the world by Dr Pita Sharples
A Jade Door: reconciliatory justice as a way forward - citing New Zealand experience by Dr Robert Joseph	Indigenes in dialogue: reflections on the place of traditional knowledges in indigenous discussions of gender, faith, peace, reconciliation and good governence by Dr Tamasailau Sua'ali'i-Sauni	2008 Conference Presentation by Te Miringa Hohaia	Tikanga Māori House: managing reconciliation by Professor Whatarangi Winiata