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Title Pillars and shadows : statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands / John Braithwaite [and others]
Published Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Peacebuilding Compared and the Solomons conflict -- Historical background to the conflict -- Descent into armed conflict -- Peace processes -- Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands -- Reconciliation and reintegration -- What layers of identity were involved in the conflict? -- Interpreting the conflict in summary -- Peacebuilding strengths and weaknesses -- Statebuilding that contained conflict but shelved specifics that fuelled conflict
Summary 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.--Publisher description
Analysis ethnic conflict
politics and government
solomon islands
history
peace building
Notes Title from PDF title page (ANU E Press, viewed June 9, 2011)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands.
SUBJECT Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands fast
Subject Peace-building -- Solomon Islands
Nation-building -- Solomon Islands
Ethnic conflict -- Solomon Islands
Interdisciplinary studies.
Peace studies and conflict resolution.
Politics and government.
Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
Ethnic conflict
Nation-building
Peace-building
Politics and government
International Relations.
Law, Politics & Government.
SUBJECT Solomon Islands -- History
Solomon Islands -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007001941
Subject Solomon Islands
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Braithwaite, John.
Dinnen, Sinclair.
Allen, Matthew G.
Braithwaite, V. A. (Valerie A.), 1951-
Charlesworth, Hilary.
ISBN 9781921666797
192166679X
Other Titles Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands