With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and informal methods of dispute resolution contain useful insights for policy makers and others interested in socially attuned resolutions to the problems of order that are found increasingly in the Pacific Islands as elsewhere. Contributors to this volume include Pacific Islanders from Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea including Bougainville, as well as outsiders with a longstanding interest in the region. They come from a variety of backgrounds and include criminal justice practitioners, scholars, traditional leaders and community activists. The chapters deal with conflict in a variety of contexts, from interpersonal disputes within communities to large-scale conflicts between communities. This is a book not only of stories but also of practical models that combine different traditions in creative ways and that offer the prospect of building more sustainable resolutions to crime and conflict.
Edited by:
Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, Tess Newton Imprint: ANU Press Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 220mm,
Width: 142mm,
ISBN:9781921666827 ISBN 10: 192166682X Pages: 324 Publication Date:01 November 2010 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Restorative justice in the pacific islands: An introduction The fundamentals of restorative justice The age of steam: constructed identity and recalcitrant youth in a Papua New Guinea village Tribal warfare and transformative justice in the New Guinea highlands Restorative justice and women in Vanuatu Vanuatu law, the police and restorative justice Restorative programs in the formal justice system of Vanuatu Honourable Conflict resolution in a multi-cultural urban setting in Papua New Guinea Restorative justice in Papua New Guinea: A collaborative effort Rehabilitation for change in Fiji: a women's initiative The Vanuatu cultural centre’s juvenile justice project The Lakalakabulu area council of chiefs in Vanuatu Re-inventing the cultural wheel: re-conceptualising restorative justice and peace building in ethnically divided Fiji Informal justice in law and justice reform in the pacific region Restorative justice in the Solomon Islands Bougainville women’s role in conflict resolution in the Bougainville peace process Restorative justice in Bougainville A marriage of custom and introduced skills: Restorative justice Bougainville style