Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands

Cascades of Violence: War, Crime and Peacebuilding Across South Asia

“…Yet, there are still substantial crossborder cascades of violence to code in the Sri Lankan case. This is also true for the other 'least likely' island war cases that we have coded for Peacebuilding Compared so far-Bougainville (Braithwaite et al 2010b) and Solomon Islands (Braithwaite et al 2010c)-which were both cases that cascaded to a degree from grievances spawned in World War II and were fought with weapons buried by American and Japanese troops during that war. 2 This is also true of a number of other island war cases coded in Peacebuilding Compared such as Ambon in Indonesia (Braithwaite et al 2010a).…”

“…'Too early to call' codes drive a particularly large number of holes into the data. Previous Peacebuilding Compared books have discussed in more detail these coding methodologies (Braithwaite et al 2010a(Braithwaite et al , 2010b(Braithwaite et al , 2010c.…”

“…Indeed, many levels of governance do so. Success at this is difficult and a matter of degree, as revealed in the cases we have documented for Peacebuilding Compared, such as UN transitional governance in Timor-Leste and transitional governance hybrids with regional organisations of states in Bougainville (Braithwaite et al 2010b) and Solomon Islands (Braithwaite et al 2010c). Once these institutions take root, pillaging the state through bad governance becomes a way to lose elections.…”

“…Part I of the book helps evolve the narrative of the Peacebuilding Compared project. It draws insights from previous publications of the project (Braithwaite et al 2010a(Braithwaite et al , 2010b(Braithwaite et al , 2010c. It also draws from D'Costa's deep involvement with interlocutors within South Asian civil society (D'Costa 2011(D'Costa , 2014(D'Costa , 2016.…”

The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific

“…There have been some excellent examinations of the crisis and the intervention, but they are not the focus of this book. The reader interested in the Tensions and RAMSI's role in the reconstruction is referred to Allen (2005Allen ( , 2009Allen ( and 2011, Dinnen (2002), Allen and Dinnen (2010), Dinnen and Firth (2008), Fraenkel (2004), and Braithwaite et al (2010). The reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recently made available despite the government embargo, contain much important information on the nature and extent of the civil unrest, its aftermath and the need to confront the truth as an act of healing (Solomon Islands Government.…”