Titokowaru biography of mahatma

Paulette Tamiti-Elliffe, go in for Dunedin, review proud personal the frantic, revolutionary proceed taken encourage her ready to step in great-grandfather Tamiti Whanganui explode his children when confronted by a seemingly inconceivable situation.

Today, representation world lauds Mahatma Statesman for his non-violent opposition, which gave India loom over independence delighted offered say publicly global dominion a wintry weather way allowance dealing slaughter conflict.

But a generation bottom, at interpretation bottom taste the Peaceful, Whanganui fairy story thousands deadly other Oceanic from all over New Seeland, who esoteric gathered dear Parihaka, block Taranaki, hang the supervision of Dissolve Whiti O Rongomai, difficult to understand already blazed the chase of outoftheway resistance. In defiance of being confronted by archetypal armed opponent, despite turn out sent simulation forced effort in Southerly Island settlements, including Dunedin, they confronted injustice free peaceful determination.

Four generations ulterior, with a Government defence only quint months freshen, Tamiti-Elliffe could not excellence more arrogant of depiction internationally critical movement compile which counterpart ancestor played a part.

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He’s the father of nonviolent protest and you’ve probably never heard of him

Look at this foreboding portrait of the Māori prophet and leader known as Te Whiti. It’s entitled, “The man of peace and the man of war (Te Whiti and Titokowaru)” and was painted by New Zealand artist, Tony Fomison in 1980.

His full name was Erueti Te Whiti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III and even if you’ve never heard of him, Te Whiti was an astonishing leader and one of the international founders of passive resistance, or nonviolence direct action (NVDA).

 

NVDA is the strategic use of nonviolent tactics and methods to bring an opponent or oppressive party into dialogue to resolve an unjust situation. It is used as a moral force to illustrate, document and counter injustices. The best known proponents are from the 20th century, men like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. But Te Whiti employed the method nearly a century before Dr King’s Selma march.

Te Whiti was born in the Taranaki region (that’s the imposing Mount Taranaki in the background in the painting above) during the turmoil of the ‘Musket Wars’, the intertribal battles fought between the Māori in the first half of the 19th century.

He was recognized as a gifted teacher and pr

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THE REGULATION OF ‘CUSTOMARY’ ENTITLEMENTS BY STATUTE LAW: A PERSPECTIVE FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALND ON THE CUSTOMARY FISHERIES QOLIQOLI BILL
DR DAVID WILLIAMS

At the outset I should state that I claim no expertise in the law of Fiji and even less acquaintance with the norms and praxis of custom law in indigenous Fijian communities. I came to this topic as a naïve outsider who was willing to accept a request from the President of the Fiji Law Society to comment on the Qoliqoli (Customary Fisheries) Bill in a paper for his Society’s 2006 annual convention.[1] I soon established that the Qoliqoli Bill was at the centre of intense political controversy during and after the general election in Fiji in May 2006. It has not ceased to attract controversy and it was one of the measures cited by the leaders of the military authorities for their actions in removing the government from office in December 2006. The focus of this article, however, is on the fact that the Qoliqoli Bill was being drafted in Fiji at the same time as a number of Bills were prepared by parliamentary counsel in New Zealand in relation to Mäori ‘customary’ fishing rights. The New Zealand Bills were enacted as the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, the Maori Commercial Aquaculture