Ali’itasi (Rose) Stewart 
MA
MA (European Studies) Thesis Student
Thesis Title
Mining Resource Management: A Minor field study on the Impact on Human and Indigenous Rights in the Porgera Valley
Academic Background
BA (Education and American Studies) University of Canterbury, BA Hons (Pacific Studies) University of Canterbury
Qualifications
tba
Room
National Centre for Research on Europe
Room 449
Contact Details
C/o NCRE
Postal address:
c/o National Centre for Research on Europe
Level 4 Commerce Building
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Details of Research
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effectiveness of mining resource management by the various stakeholders and how administrative practises impact on Human and Indigenous Rights. The study was be classified into four areas: (a) mining resource management, (b) sustainability of the socio- economic village livelihood, (c) environmental impact and (d) human and indigenous rights. Using Porgera Gold Mine in the Porgera Valley as a case study, the paper was investigate the socio-economics and social environment of the region. Inclusive in the research will be a narrative approach to the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) and the various implemented national and international governing policies.
Research Interests
Human and Indigenous Rights
Recent Publications
Recent Conference and workshop papers:
April 2008
University of Auckland - Building Pacific Research Capacity and Scholarship in Aotearoa – BRCSS: Portrayal of Pasifika People in the Printed Media is Deliberate and Attributes to General Perception
May 2008
Aotahi: School of Maori and Indigenous Studies, Christchurch, Guest Lecturer: What does it mean to be a Pasefika Woman.
May 2007
Aotahi: School of Maori and Indigenous Studies, Christchurch, Guest Lecturer: The Samoan Experience.
August 2005
PILLARS Community Workers Workshop, Christchurch: Pacific Island Protocol From a New Zealand Born Perspectives
May 2004
Pacific Youth Alcohol Fono, Christchurch: Alcohol and the Law – Your Rights.
June 1995
Marian College Workshop, Onuku Marae Akaroa, The Treaty of Waitangi