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Prior to moving home to New Zealand in 2017, I had been living overseas working on humanitarian and disarmament campaigns. I was abroad for 16 years, and as a proud New Zealander I frequently promoted my country as a humanitarian, peacekeeping, environmentalist, progressive multicultural society. At the time I believed these narratives completely, however, now that I am home, I know that the perspectives I shared with people in Laos or Lebanon were not truthful representations of Aotearoa New Zealand. Since my return I have been confronted by the deeply contested identity within New Zealand society. We celebrate our nuclearfree status and the suffragette movement as defining foundations of our modern society. Yet other inspiring dimensions to our shared history are less well known. The role of Kate Shepherd as an anti-war activist and the role of Parihaka in inspiring Ghandi on strategic non-violence are two significant examples. I began thinking about the contradictions which exist between how we see ourselves in New Zealand, and how the rest of the world views our society. I began thinking more broadly about how our identity shapes the role of Aotearoa New Zealand in the world. Instinctively I also began seeking platforms to share new ideas on how New Zealand engages on the global stage. I discovered that the conversations relating to our role in the world are often reserved for academics, diplomats, business leaders and suited officials. Foreign policy is not an area that receives much political or media attention and the conversations tend to exclude Maori, Pasifika, young people and community organisations. As a response, in 2018 a group of us set up New Zealand Alternative - an organisation dedicated to opening up public discussion and debate about the role our country should play in the world. We want to start a conversation with communities around the country and to generate creative ideas for what we might do as a progressive actor in the world. We’ve started to open up the space to ask these important questions. We’ve produced a report proposing that New Zealand build on our effective peace mediation work in Bougainville in the 1990s and set up a Conflict Prevention Unit. Thomas Nash Continued on page 6
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