{"id":713,"date":"2026-07-18T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/?page_id=713"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:45:31","slug":"apconf-ethics-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/?page_id=713","title":{"rendered":"APCONF Ethics Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">APCONF ETHICAL STATEMENT<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Asia-Pacific Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology (APCONF)<br>foregrounds intellectual honesty in which openness, compliance, international collaboration,<br>and the free flow of talent and ideas are essential. The conference, its workshops, and<br>other events seek to enable engaging discussions and conversations that sustain<br>APCONF\u2019s mission to advance maritime and underwater archaeology for humanity.<br>Therefore, APCONF is committed to providing a safe, secure, productive, and welcoming<br>environment to all participants, including the organizing committee, attendees, and<br>vendors. APCONF has no tolerance for discrimination, violation, harassment, or bullying in<br>any form. All participants have the right to pursue shared interests without intimidation or<br>bias in surroundings that support diversity and inclusion. In acknowledgement of our host<br>country&#8217;s legal and moral system, participants are expected to adhere to conference and<br>host principles, recognizing and valuing local cultures, traditions, and knowledge systems.<br>Participants should report any behaviour inconsistent with the principles outlined here to<br>the APCONF Ethics and Accessibility Team.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9e16b636c7fbc30a719685f92d08022e wp-block-paragraph\">APCONF Ethics and Accessibility Team<br>Akifumi Iwabuchi (Lead): <a href=\"mailto:iwabuchi@kaiyodai.ac.jp\">iwabuchi@kaiyodai.ac.jp<\/a><br>Jennifer Craig (Assist): <a href=\"mailto:jlocraig@gmail.com\">jlocraig@gmail.com<\/a><br>Ligaya Lacsina: <a href=\"mailto:gaylacsina@gmail.com\">gaylacsina@gmail.com<\/a><br>Wijerathne Bohingamuwa: <a href=\"mailto:bohingamuwa69@gmail.com\">bohingamuwa69@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APCONF ETHICAL STATEMENT The Asia-Pacific Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology (APCONF)foregrounds intellectual honesty in which openness, compliance, international collaboration,and the free flow of talent and ideas are essential. The conference, its workshops, andother events seek to enable engaging discussions and conversations that sustainAPCONF\u2019s mission to advance maritime and underwater archaeology for humanity.Therefore, APCONF is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-713","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apconf-much.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}