Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands
Braithwaite, John
Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands - Canberra ANU Press 2010 - 1 electronic resource (197 p.)
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This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) has been an intensive peacekeeping operation, concentrating on building 'core pillars' of the modern state. It did not take adequate notice of a variety of shadow sources of power in the Solomon Islands, for example logging and business interests, that continue to undermine the state's democratic foundations. At first RAMSI's statebuilding was neither very responsive to local voices nor to root causes of the conflict, but it slowly changed tack to a more responsive form of peacebuilding. The craft of peace as learned in the Solomon Islands is about enabling spaces for dialogue that define where the mission should pull back to allow local actors to expand the horizons of their peacebuilding ambition.
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English
OAPEN_459442
10.26530/OAPEN_459442 doi
Peace studies & conflict resolution
Politics & government
ethnic conflict Guadalcanal history Honiara peace building Peacebuilding politics and government Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands solomon islands
Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands - Canberra ANU Press 2010 - 1 electronic resource (197 p.)
Free-to-read
This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) has been an intensive peacekeeping operation, concentrating on building 'core pillars' of the modern state. It did not take adequate notice of a variety of shadow sources of power in the Solomon Islands, for example logging and business interests, that continue to undermine the state's democratic foundations. At first RAMSI's statebuilding was neither very responsive to local voices nor to root causes of the conflict, but it slowly changed tack to a more responsive form of peacebuilding. The craft of peace as learned in the Solomon Islands is about enabling spaces for dialogue that define where the mission should pull back to allow local actors to expand the horizons of their peacebuilding ambition.
All rights reserved
English
OAPEN_459442
10.26530/OAPEN_459442 doi
Peace studies & conflict resolution
Politics & government
ethnic conflict Guadalcanal history Honiara peace building Peacebuilding politics and government Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands solomon islands