Author: Charles James ClayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contemporary Tribal Warfare in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Charles James ClayPeace-Making and the Imagination
Author: Andrew StrathernPublisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702247561
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A compelling new book that presents a thoughtful and creative approach to transforming violent discordances, this work examines the intractable issues of revenge and restitution in a conflict context. It argues that in communities where violence must be paid for through compensation, violent conflict can be contained. With primary reference to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and comparisons to cases from Africa, Pakistan, and other arenas of tribal social formations, the account explores how rituals such as wealth disbursement, oath taking, sacrifice, and formal apologies are often used as a means of averting or transcending acts of vengeance after violence. Through exploration of the balance between revenge and compensation at different junctures in the peace-making process, this compelling text devises a thought-provoking and inventive analysis that would benefit countless communities in conflict around the world.
Tribal Warriors at the Last Frontier
Author: Benny LeoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781616674205
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Papua New Guinea is indeed the land of mystery. It is a land of natural wilderness, breathtaking landscapes, lost cultures, unexpected tropical jungles, and high mountains, many networks of rivers and fascinating flora and fauna. But what's more mysterious is the people, who are richer in their culture than any other county in the world. This is because they speak 800 different languages; thus, they have 800 unique cultures. Tribal Warriors at the Last Frontier is a true story of a very small tribe known as the Jika Mukuka tribe in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The story takes us back a few hundred years before the discovery of the Hagen people by the first white men (the Leahy brothers; Michael and Danny) from Australia. The origin of the Jika Mukuka tribe and the events that the Jika Mukukas went through. The Jika Mukuka tribe survived through a turbulent period of tribal warfare, forced out of their homeland to seek refuge all over the land of different tribes in the Hagen society. Almost 90 percent of their tribesmen were killed by an enemy ten times their size but few of those brave warriors sought refuge at Kuta, the mine site of Danny Leahy. The Jika Mukukas came to learn the new ways of the white man, which were both weird, funny, and confusing. After seven years of exile, the last surviving 29 men returned to their homeland and rebuilt the tribe of Jika Mukuka. The small Jika Mukuka tribe was the last to resettle among thousands of tribes but was richly blessed by producing two powerful men in Papua New Guinea, who were Pena Ou, the first national member for Hagen, and Paias Wingti, former three time Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea and Governor for Western Highlands.
Aspects of Conflict in the Contemporary Papua New Guinea Highlands
Author: Paradise
Author: Michael O'HanlonPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Nicole HaleyPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921313463
Category : Intergroup relations
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Southern Highlands is one of Papua New Guinea's most resource-rich provinces, but for a number of years the province has been riven by conflict. Longstanding inter-group rivalries, briefly set aside during the colonial period, have been compounded by competition for the benefits provided by the modern state and by fighting over the distribution of returns from the several big mining and petroleum projects located within the province or impinging upon it. Deaths from the various conflicts over the past decade number in the hundreds. As a result of inter-group fighting, criminal activity and vandalism, a number of businesses have withdrawn from the province. Roadblocks and ambushes have made travel dangerous in many parts and expatriate missionaries and aid workers have left. Many public servants have abandoned their posts with the result that state services are not provided. Corruption is rife. Police are often reluctant to act because they are outnumbered and outgunned. This volume brings together a number of authors with deep experience of the Southern Highlands to examine the underlying dynamics of resource development and conflict in the province. Its primary purpose is to provide some background to recent events, but the authors also explore possible approaches to limiting the human and economic costs of the ongoing conflict and breakdown of governance.
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
Author: Paige WestPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351501
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.
Traditional Architecture of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Author: Rahim Baradaran MilaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
World Police & Paramilitary Forces
Author: John AndradePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349077828
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Anomie and Violence
Author: John BraithwaitePublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921666234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem of any nation. All these forms of violence have now fallen dramatically. How was this accomplished? What drove the rise and the fall of violence? Anomie theory is deployed to explain these developments. Sudden institutional change at the time of the Asian financial crisis and the fall of President Suharto meant the rules of the game were up for grabs. Valerie Braithwaite's motivational postures theory is used to explain the gaming of the rules and the disengagement from authority that occurred in that era. Ultimately resistance to Suharto laid a foundation for commitment to a revised, more democratic, institutional order. The peacebuilding that occurred was not based on the high-integrity truth-seeking and reconciliation that was the normative preference of these authors. Rather it was based on non-truth, sometimes lies, and yet substantial reconciliation. This poses a challenge to restorative justice theories of peacebuilding.