Reconciliation and architectures of commitment : sequencing peace in Bougainville /

Reconciliation and architectures of commitment : sequencing peace in Bougainville /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988- Women and peace -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island. Autonomy and independence movements. Politics and government Women and peace. Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) -- History. Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Politics and government. Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11396760

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Other authors / contributors:	Braithwaite, John.
ISBN:	9781921666698 1921666692 9781921666681 1921666684
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"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"--Publisher's description
Other form:	Print version: Reconciliation and architectures of commitment. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, ©2010 9781921666681
Standard no.:	10.26530/OAPEN_459490

Table of Contents:

Peacebuilding Compared and the Bougainville conflict
Historical background to the conflict
Descent into civil war
Peacemaking on, off and finally back on track
The architecture of the peace
Reconciliation and reintegration
The cost of the conflict
Layers of identity involved in the conflict
Interpreting the conflict in summary
Deep and shallow restorative peace.