This work offers important new perspectives on the violence and unrest that gripped Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known as the Ethnic Tension.

This book provides crucial insights both into how practices and beliefs of sorcery and witchcraft are playing out in contemporary Melanesia, and the types of interventions.

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level.

This book takes up this crucial contemporary issue in the study of war and peace by examining fifteen intrastate conflicts in the Asia-Pacific.

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.

his book takes stock of the mutations, continuities and fractures at the heart of Myanmar’s political and economic transformations.