IPRA Conference 2025 - Peace: Resistance, Resilience and Reconciliation

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

​Celebrating sixty years since International Peace Research Association was first founded in 1964, the 30th IPRA biennial conference, warmly welcomes you to join the largest body of global peace researchers, students, academics and community-based practitioners to Aotearoa New Zealand from 5-8 November 2025.  The conference theme is “Peace, Resistance and Reconciliation | Te Rongo i Tau, Te Riri i Tū and Te Ringa i Kotuia” will gather inspiring thought leaders of activists, artists, community practitioners and researchers to reflect on the intersection of peace, resistance and reconciliation.

We welcome all participants to this conference to bring their visionary research and ideas to share with like-minded community.  Māori are the Indigenous Polynesian people of Aotearoa and consider the Māori village of Parihaka Pā to be the birthplace of non-violence resistance.  Here, Māori resistance to colonisation became a genesis of a worldwide, non-violence movement that spread to India, the Americas, and throughout the world. 

Almost sixty years of peace advocacy has advanced the struggles of many people who have experienced injustice, genocide, racism and colonization.  We call on students, communities and researchers to ignite the call for peace, cultural, social, psychological, physical and spiritual wellbeing for all beings living on this shared planet. The 2025 IPRA General Conference welcomes leadership change makers and flax/ grass roots initiatives to share in local, national and international wisdom amongst the gathered collective. 

The conference will be held 5-8 November 2025 at The Devon Hotel in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Check in registration will begin on Sunday 4th November 4pm-7pm in the Conference Foyer. Included in the conference will be a visit to Owae Marae, a sacred place of international significance. Taranaki is an important region of Aotearoa New Zealand, as it was the place where the New Zealand Land wars began in 1860 between Europeans and Māori.  The land holds both the memory of love, pain and forgiveness – a recipe for reaching our highest selves and known wisdom. 

Conference Registration and IPRA Membership Fees Information

Please note that IPRA Members will receive a NZD $125 (USD $70) discount off the cost of conference registration.

Once you proceed through to paying for your registration, if you select IPRA membership as well as your conference registration, the discount will automatically be applied when you go to pay. 

FOR PRESENTERS: FAILURE TO REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 1ST WILL RESULT IN YOUR REMOVAL FROM THE PROGRAM.

As the currency conversion changes day by day, please use the NZD amount as the amount to be paid. (USD in brackets is an estimate and varies due to currency exchange rate on the day).

Conference Registration Fees

IPRA Membership Fees