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13 Competing Visions and Converging Realities? Justice and Security Governance in Post-Conflict

21 Aug 2024

The BISDP sees the law and justice sector, including the police, working closely with: community stakeholders and partners, such as Bougainville veterans, chiefs and clan groups, women and youth groups, as well as national and international stakeholders, in fostering and supporting programs and initiatives that support continued efforts towards reconciliation, peacebuilding and the rule of law in. [...] Many Solomon Islanders share a perception of progressive withdrawal of government from rural areas during the post-independence period and a widening gap between Honiara and the rest of the country in terms of economic and political power (Dinnen and Allen 2016). [...] Findings from the JDL research and CO evaluation influenced the design of the later Community Governance and Grievance Management (CGGM) project, an initiative led by the Solomon Islands Ministry of Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening, with support from Australia and the World Bank. [...] Its currency at the highest levels was signalled in the renaming in 2019 of the former Ministry of National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace as the Ministry of Traditional Governance, Peace and Ecclesiastical Affairs.29 The broadening of discussion beyond the narrow state-building focus that prevailed under RAMSI, at least in its earlier phases, attests to the difficulties of building and sustainin. [...] 33 These included the Bougainville Peace Agreement; Report of the Third and Final Draft of the Bougainville Constitution (Bougainville Constitutional Commission, July 2004) and the Constitution of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville 2004.

Authors

Tracy Creagh

Related Organizations

Australian National University
Pages
12
Published in
Australia

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