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© 2026 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In 2023 the Prime Minister of Fiji, Sitiveni Rabuka, proposed designating the Pacific a region-wide ‘Ocean of Peace’. Two years later in 2025, after a series of wider regional deliberations, the Blue Pacific Ocean of Peace Declaration was adopted at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting. This Pacific-led peacebuilding proposal has attracted global attention but remains less examined within the peace studies literature. Drawing on public communications by Rabuka, listening sessions with Pacific Islander stakeholders, and the authors’ diverse peace studies expertise, this article examines how the Ocean of Peace was initially framed by Rabuka and how peace studies might support and learn from its development. We explore how diverse understandings of peace can address the region’s security threats; how inclusive peacebuilding approaches can strengthen engagement and practice; and how confronting violent legacies may advance peace. This article is not a prescription for what the Ocean of Peace should be. Rather, we aim to illuminate opportunities and challenges for the concept and to highlight an opportunity for transdisciplinary and transnational peace learning and dialogue.
Author(s): McInerney WW, Farran S, Posada-Tellez A, Gill SR, Owen M, Imoh C, Fairey T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Global Change, Peace and Security
Year: 2026
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 27/01/2026
Acceptance date: 16/12/2025
Date deposited: 05/12/2025
ISSN (print): 1478-1158
ISSN (electronic): 1478-1166
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2026.2616723
DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2026.2616723
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/y3xz-0k09
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