13 Guest Editorial The Emergence of a Pacific Criminology:

The PCC brought together scholars from The University of Papua New Guinea, The University of the South Pacific, The National University of Sāmoa, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Auckland/Waipapa Volume 13 (3) 2024 Guest Editorial Taumata Rau, Auckland University of Technology/Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau, The Australian National University, and Victoria University of. [...] This intention aligns with the sentiments expressed by the great Pacific scholar Epeli Hau‘ofa (1993) in the opening quote, where he draws attention to the ongoing marginalisation and belittlement of the Pacific region, predicated on an understanding of the Pacific as consisting of small, fragmented, and isolated islands. [...] This approach of treasuring the diversity and heritage of the Pacific, while at the same time supporting a shared commitment to work together, based on open and honest relationships and inclusive and enduring partnerships within the region and beyond, ii Volume 13 (3) 2024 Guest Editorial also sits at the heart of the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Continent. [...] This is based on the realisation that after centuries of colonisation, the contemporary position of Indigenous and First Nations peoples in the wealthy settler colonial states of Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and the United States is one of profound social, economic, and political marginalisation. [...] Repeatedly, we see attention being drawn to the flexibility, adaptability, and resilience of both culture and religion – and a rejection of the binary ways that Northern criminology has tended to set up the relationship between human rights, on the one hand, and custom and religion on the other.