The 6th biennial International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2014 was held in Auckland on 25-28 November 2014, hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. The proceedings are free to download, and include 20 peer reviewed papers from around the world.
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) is the founding host of the biennial International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC). The IIRC has a well established reputation as the premier international Indigenous conference and consistently attracts high numbers of national and international participants. IIRC is a time for reflection, sharing, planning, innovating.
International Indigenous Rights and Māori Indigenous Indicators by Victoria Tauli Corpuz, in the 2006 MATAURANGA TAKETAKE: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE Indigenous Indicators of Well-being: Perspectives, Practices, Solutions hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.
This proposed research uses Kaupapa Māori theory to challenge the current dominant Western explanations for suicide, which fail to consider socio-cultural-political pressures and historical processes such as colonisation as core to Indigenous suicide.