Director's Corner
The changing scape of international development and how we all need to refocus on what and who is important
April 05, 2025
by ‘Alopi Latukefu, Director, Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education Australia and the world are at a crossroads in the decisions we make and the approach we take to ‘international development’. A...
Read More ShareClimate Change: The Existential Threat of Our Lifetime
April 05, 2025
In a recent episode of SBS Samoan's TALANOA podcast, our Edmund Rice Centre Director Alopi Latukefu discusses the pressing issue of climate change, referring to it as "the existential threat of our lifetime." He...
Read More ShareWith Trump dumping Paris (again) - Can Australia Be the Catalytic Leader needed for Global Climate Action?
April 05, 2025
By Alopi Latukefu, The U.S. departure from the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international agreement - while predictable with a Trump victory – deeply undermines global efforts to combat and mitigate the impacts of...
Read More ShareThe realists and their limits in the world today
March 10, 2025
By 'Alopi Latukefu Published on The Interpreter, a daily by the Lowy Institute. For many scholars of international relations, the orthodoxy of the realist approach – much like “market–based” approaches in economics – has...
Read More ShareProgress is not inevitable, but neither is regression.
February 20, 2025
By 'Alopi Latukefu Over the past month, I, among many in Australia and around the world have watched with growing unease as, ethnocentrism, and far-right movements accelerate their influence in favour of a nationalism....
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