Carwyn Jones
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834593
- eISBN:
- 9780824871697
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834593.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter considers key dimensions of Māori conflict resolution and how they differ from orthodox Western approaches. It examines the ongoing negotiation of Indigenous–Settler relations through ...
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This chapter considers key dimensions of Māori conflict resolution and how they differ from orthodox Western approaches. It examines the ongoing negotiation of Indigenous–Settler relations through the Waitangi Tribunal. The tribunal, a permanent commission of inquiry established in 1975, hears claims arising out of Māori concerns about implementation of the Treaty of Waitangi, originally signed with representatives of the British Crown in 1840. In an analysis that resonates with that of the previous chapter, this chapter shows that tribunal processes have been able to combine Māori and Anglo-European conflict resolution approaches. Such blending may even hold promise for mediating across difference in other settings.Less
This chapter considers key dimensions of Māori conflict resolution and how they differ from orthodox Western approaches. It examines the ongoing negotiation of Indigenous–Settler relations through the Waitangi Tribunal. The tribunal, a permanent commission of inquiry established in 1975, hears claims arising out of Māori concerns about implementation of the Treaty of Waitangi, originally signed with representatives of the British Crown in 1840. In an analysis that resonates with that of the previous chapter, this chapter shows that tribunal processes have been able to combine Māori and Anglo-European conflict resolution approaches. Such blending may even hold promise for mediating across difference in other settings.
Miranda Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190600020
- eISBN:
- 9780190600051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190600020.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with ...
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Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with protests against the interpretation of the colonial Treaty of Waitangi (1840) as making one people in the settler state, it follows young activists as they joined with older leaders to demand land rights and asserted their distinct identity. The chapter explores the significant reinterpretation of the treaty as recognizing Maori sovereignty in the context of a newly created commission of inquiry, the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 to examine Maori grievances. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the 1987 Lands Case in the context of radical neoliberal reforms to New Zealand’s economy and considers how and why judges in that case recognized Maori as partners with the Crown.Less
Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with protests against the interpretation of the colonial Treaty of Waitangi (1840) as making one people in the settler state, it follows young activists as they joined with older leaders to demand land rights and asserted their distinct identity. The chapter explores the significant reinterpretation of the treaty as recognizing Maori sovereignty in the context of a newly created commission of inquiry, the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 to examine Maori grievances. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the 1987 Lands Case in the context of radical neoliberal reforms to New Zealand’s economy and considers how and why judges in that case recognized Maori as partners with the Crown.
