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New currents in the Pacific
No full textThe Pacific region faces a number of key transitions across range of areas including politics and democracy, development and economics, women\u27s leadership, gender roles and relations, and the impact of technology on society.
In this video, convenors of the 2014 State of the Pacific conference Dr Sinclair Dinnen and Dr John Cox outline some of these key transitions and what they mean for the region and Australia. Hosted by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, the second annual State of the Pacific conference brings together academics, policymakers, business leaders, civil society representatives and the media to examine the most pressing contemporary challenges facing the region.
Listen to podcasts from the conference here.
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Teasing out the Tangle: Raskols, Young Men, Crime and HIV
No full textThis chapter revolves around the �raskol�, a term first used in the mid1960s to describe young men, usually in groups, who engaged in petty theft and vandalism around Port Moresby, but later became associated with more serious property crime, violence and rape (Harris 1988, 3�16). Deriving from the English word �rascal�, raskolism referred to a new development in the growing town life of what was then the administrative centre of the Australian territories of Papua and New Guinea. Though raskolism still preserves certain connotations of urbanisation and opportunism, so-called raskols are now found in many rural areas while the nature and complexity of criminal activity, including raskolism, has evolved
From Ideals to Reality in International Rule of Law Work – the Case of Papua New Guinea
No full textPapua New Guinea’s famous diversity manifests itself in extraordinarily high levels of normative and legal pluralism. These have posed considerable challenges to efforts to establish a rule of law system along Western lines. Rule of law mechanisms often come into direct contestation with indigenous belief systems and practices and this has been a significant factor behind the limited success of international rule of law support. An exploration of the social complexities of PNG viewed through an historical lens provides the context for arguing that international rule of law assistance needs to take on forms attuned to local realities rather than the pursuit of unrealistic – and often inappropriate – international ideals. In PNG, this necessarily means engagement with a broad spectrum of both state and non-state justice actors. The evolving character of international assistance in PNG in recent years provides some practical clues as to how a more socially attuned engagement might look.</jats:p
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