Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 5, 2022 14:29:34 GMT 12
THE MOVE TOWARDS A MORE MĀORI FOREIGN POLICY
There are signs that Nanaia Mahuta's push for greater consideration of a Māori worldview in foreign affairs is making progress, but success will not be straightforward, as Sam Sachdeva reports
One of the key policy issues in the sixth Labour government has been how to better include Māori perspectives in policy discussions – and the cloistered world of diplomacy has been no exception.
In her first major foreign policy speech, to the diplomatic corps at the Waitangi Day commemorations in 2021, Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta put tirohanga Māori (the Māori worldview) at the forefront of her approach to the role, citing “values such as manaaki – kindness or the reciprocity of goodwill; whanaunga – our connectedness or shared sense of humanity; mahi tahi and kotahitanga – collective benefits and shared aspiration; and kaitiaki – protectors and stewards of our intergenerational wellbeing”......
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There are signs that Nanaia Mahuta's push for greater consideration of a Māori worldview in foreign affairs is making progress, but success will not be straightforward, as Sam Sachdeva reports
One of the key policy issues in the sixth Labour government has been how to better include Māori perspectives in policy discussions – and the cloistered world of diplomacy has been no exception.
In her first major foreign policy speech, to the diplomatic corps at the Waitangi Day commemorations in 2021, Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta put tirohanga Māori (the Māori worldview) at the forefront of her approach to the role, citing “values such as manaaki – kindness or the reciprocity of goodwill; whanaunga – our connectedness or shared sense of humanity; mahi tahi and kotahitanga – collective benefits and shared aspiration; and kaitiaki – protectors and stewards of our intergenerational wellbeing”......
www.newsroom.co.nz/the-move-towards-a-more-maori-foreign-policy