Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing peace in Bougainville

Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics: Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea

“…But as the Lihir case demonstrates, small islands are by no means immune; the scale may be reduced, but in some ways the impacts can be more intense as they are compressed and contained within a smaller location. (Regan 1998(Regan , 2011Braithwaite et al 2010), and it was still closed in 2016.…”

Scaling criminology: From street violence to atrocity crimes

“…As successful gun-control programs in violence and gang-ridden cities in the United States demonstrate, concentrated deterrence supplemented by incentives for handing in guns can significantly reduce violence (Kleiman 2009;Kennedy 2008). Peacebuilding programs that included arms control, or flanked concentrated deterrence with offers of welfare and support, have been successfully implemented in conflict zones (Braithwaite et al 2011). …”

Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia

“…In the decades before the Bougainville conflict, sorcery-related violence was reportedly rare due to the strength of community, clans and the church, and the absence of guns in the community. 27 During the conflict, when combatants displaced both autonomous indigenous authority at the village level and the law and order apparatus of the PNG state, they began to regulate communities over which they held power; '[s]ome BRA [and also Bougainville Resistance Force] commanders used their new monopoly of force on their patch to settle old disputes over land, sorcery, local economic inequalities and other grievances that had nothing to do with the[ir] … struggle' (Braithwaite et al 2010). UN Women in Bougainville understands that some incidents of sorcery accusation-related violence during the conflict involved the murder of entire families by combatants.…”