In March 2009 the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs commissioned the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland to undertake a research project entitled Pacific Pathways to Sexual Violence Prevention Research, to provide further insight into the development of sexual violence prevention strategies for Pacific communities in New Zealand. This project was initiated due to the gap in empirical evidence on sexual violence prevention among Pacific communities. The Request for Proposals called for a strengths-based approach. The project aimed to Discuss ethnic-specific Pacific views of sexual violence, including protective and risk factors; Analyze the extent to which traditional Pacific cultural sexual violence prevention methods have been upheld or have broken down within the New Zealand context; Examine Pacific cultural sexual violence prevention approaches that could be further developed by the sexual violence workforce in New Zealand, etc…