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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137635603321

Autore

Braithwaite John

Titolo

Reconciliation and architectures of commitment : sequencing peace in Bougainville / / John Braithwaite [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : The Australian National University, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-921666-69-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

327.172099592

Soggetti

Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988-

Women and peace - Papua New Guinea - Bougainville Island

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) History

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) Autonomy and independence movements

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Following a bloody civil war, peace consolidated slowly and sequentially in Bougainville. That sequence was of both a top-down architecture of credible commitment in a formal peace process and layer upon layer of bottom-up reconciliation. Reconciliation was based on indigenous traditions of peacemaking. It also drew on Christian traditions of reconciliation, on training in restorative justice principles and on innovation in womens' peacebuilding. Peacekeepers opened safe spaces for reconciliation, but it was locals who shaped and owned the peace. There is much to learn from this distinctively indigenous peace architecture. It is a far cry from the norms of a 'liberal peace' or a 'realist peace'. The authors describe it as a hybrid 'restorative peace' in which 'mothers of the land' and then male combatants linked arms in creative ways. A danger to Bougainville's peace is weakness of international commitment to honour the result of a forthcoming independence referendum that is one central plank of the peace deal.