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  • Mengzhu Fu

    Strategies of addressing violence against women that rely on the state and the criminal justice system are inadequate and often perpetuate violence against women of colour.  This essay asks what will it take to end gender-based violence in Aotearoa/ New Zealand?  It suggests moves towards effective strategies for transformative change and gender justice.

  • Edited by Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim

    A special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (Vol 37, No. 4, 2011-2012) examines grassroots efforts, cultural interventions and theoretical questions about community-based strategies to address gendered violence.

  • Dr Leland A Ruwhiu, Witi Ashby, Heta Erueti, Allan Halliday, Hemi Horne, Phil Paikea

    Report focused on mana tāne from the Amokura project asking two questions: how do tāne become and remain free of whānau violence, and what are tāne aspirations for whānau oranga.

  • Ani Mikaere

    This article begins with a discussion of the position of women in Māori society before colonisation.  It then considers the position of women under English law, and examines the effects that law had on Maori women as a result of colonisation. 

  • Edited by James Ptacek

    This book considers the dangers and potential benefits of using restorative justice in response to violence against women.  The contributors include writers from a diversity of communities, and provide a range of perspectives on justice practices and descriptions of new programs combining restorative justice with feminist anti-violence.

  • Moana Jackson

    The two reports come from interviews with thousands of Māori about their experiences with the State legal system in Aotearoa—police, courts and prisons.  It found that the State has been a major source of violence, and may not be a legitimate institution for justice.  There is a need for legitimate ways of being safe and putting things right when harm has been caused.

  • Second Māori Taskforce on Whānau Violence

    This report provides a conceptual framework for practitioners working with victims, perpetrators, whānau and their communities, which recognises colonisation as the problem, and the solution coming from tikanga Māori.

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