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1 online resource (xx, 190 pages) |
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Women cope with armed conflict / Marilyn Taleo Havini -- Where is Kaea? / Marcelline Kokiai Tunim -- Life on the Run / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- Journey into exile / Marilyn Taleo Havini -- Mmarura incursion and Lois Mmarii's escape / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- Life in the jungle during the blockade / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- The blockade and fleeing to the jungle / Marcelline Kokiai Tunim -- Human rights abuses and survival behind the blockade / Daphne Zale -- Running the blockade / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- Escaping assassination and refugee flight overseas / Scholastica Raren -- A tribute / Marilyn Taleo Havini -- Rape, a weapon of war / Scholastica Raren Miriori -- Women in community during the blockade / Marilyn Taleo Havini -- Building a jungle society / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- The search for peace and justice / Daphne Zale -- Women, war and the BICWF / Sr Lorraine Garasu -- Community developments and BOCBIHP / Sr Ruby Mirinka -- Human rights portfolio / Marilyn Taleo Havini -- Unity and the peace process / Ruth Saovanna Spriggs -- Women contribute to the peace process / Scholastica Raren Miriori -- Formal inclusion of women in negotiations / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- The women's voices at Burham / Marilyn Taleo Havini -- the birth of the Bougainville women for peace and freedom / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- Women's voices for peace at the Lincoln negotiations / Marilyn Taleo Havini -- Lincoln Peace Talks women's statement -- Arrival of the peace monitors / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- Awareness campaign and the BWPF expansion / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- Cease-fire agreement negotiations / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi -- BWPF human rights project / Rosemarie Dikaung -- European solidarity / Scholastica Raren Miriori -- Bougainville Women's Summit 2001 / Scholastica Raren Miriori -- Reconciliation and renewing the vision / Josephine Tankunani Sirivi |
| Summary |
"The lights went out in Bougainville in 1990. In an attempt to force the island to give up its claims for independence, the government of Papua New Guinea imposed a military blockade, withdrawing all government and commercial services. The PNG military took control, imposed a permanent curfew and began an armed campaign against Bougainvillean rebel forces." "As Mothers of the Land is a unique account of one of the deadliest conflicts in recent decades, told not by military or political chiefs, but by those caught in the middle of the fighting: Bougainvillean women." "Bougainville is a matrilineal society, in which women are custodians of the land, but, as the conflict escalated, they became unwilling pawns in the fight to control the country's destiny. They were forced from their homes and herded into PNG-controlled 'care centres' or were forced to live on the run, fleeing to the jungle to escape violence, rape and military rule." "Normal society fractured as fear and anarchy took hold. With no access to health, education and basic community services, women were forced to call on traditional knowledge and self-reliance to rebuild a sense of community in the heart of the jungle. They also began to build a women's movement for peace and freedom." "As Mothers of the Land is a record of the years of war and the quest for peace, told by the women who lived through it. It is an essential record of the vital role women played in the Bougainville peace process and their remarkable achievements in a country torn apart by decades of violent struggle."--Jacket |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Women and peace -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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Politics and government
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Women and peace
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Frau
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Friede
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Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island
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Bougainville
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sirivi, Josephine Tankunani.
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Havini, Marilyn Taleo.
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| LC no. |
2004463126 |
| ISBN |
1740760611 |
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9781740760614 |
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