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2. PAPUA NEW GUINEA COUNTRY REVIEW.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
A country report for Papua New Guinea is presented from publisher, CountryWatch Incorporated, with topics including economic conditions; political conditions; and international relations.
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- 2020
3. PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
A country report for Papua New Guinea is presented from publisher PRS Group with topics including government stability in the country, economic conditions of the country, and investment profile of the country.
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- 2019
4. 'Which Way?' Big Man, Road Man, Chief: Bernard Narokobi's Multifaceted Leadership Career.
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Bablis, Gregory
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MELANESIANS , *POLITICIANS , *LAWYERS , *ARAPESH (Papua New Guinean people) ,HISTORY of Papua New Guinea ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Among the topics that Bernard Narokobi addresses in his numerous writings is the place of traditional Melanesian leadership styles in a modern Papua New Guinea. This article explores Narokobi's leadership status to show how far-reaching and multifaceted his leadership career was: he was at once a traditional Melanesian bigman, a chief, and a modern public figure. The actions he took in these roles were for him a matter of the highest principle, something that at times had severe political consequences. Because in Melanesia the scope of the ritual that takes place upon an individual's death is an index of their status, an analysis of the mortuary rituals undertaken upon Narokobi's death provides insight into the significance of his leadership at every level from his clan up to the national level of Papua New Guinean society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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5. Narokobi's Melanesian Philosophy in the Papua New Guinean Legal System.
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Narokobi, Vergil Los
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PHILOSOPHERS , *LAW reform , *JUSTICE administration , *CONSTITUTIONAL law , *SOCIAL justice , *MELANESIANS ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Bernard Narokobi dedicated his career as a law reformer, jurist and parliamentarian to making Papua New Guinea's legal system a catalyst for a distinctively Melanesian philosophy. This philosophy, 'the Melanesian Way', emphasized Papua New Guineans' embeddedness within their local social worlds, including spirits and the natural environment. The legal foundation for the Melanesian Way was set down in the National Goals and Directive Principles and Basic Social Obligations, which are stated in the Preamble to the Constitution of Papua New Guinea. These make the ideals of social justice, participatory democracy, national sovereignty and sustainable development a legal aspiration and an impetus for formally recognizing the social forms that Papua New Guinean people themselves experience as providing order in their lives. Legislation that Narokobi promoted over the course of his career offered practical mechanisms for operationalizing these ideals in accordance with their original constitutional foundation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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6. From the Grassroots: Bernard Narokobi and the Making of Papua New Guinea's Constitution.
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Ritchie, Jonathan
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POLITICIANS , *CONSTITUTIONAL history , *DECOLONIZATION , *MELANESIANS ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Bernard Narokobi's concept of the Melanesian Way was influenced by a variety of factors, including his own childhood in the village, his religion, and the understandings of the people around him. He also drew inspiration from his exposure to the views and opinions of the many Papua New Guineans who contributed to the work of the Constitutional Planning Committee (CPC) between 1972 and 1975 when he served as a consultant to the committee. He shared the belief in a specifically 'Melanesian' way of social organization and cosmological understanding with the others who took part in the CPC's work, most prominently its de facto chairman, Father John Momis. With Momis he drew on the people's contributions to formulate PNG's National Goals and Directive Principles, which, at least in part, embody Narokobi's understanding of what it is to be Melanesian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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7. The Legacy of Bernard Narokobi and the Melanesian Way.
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Dobrin, Lise M. and Golub, Alex
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POLITICIANS , *LAWYERS , *PHILOSOPHERS , *DECOLONIZATION , *INDIGENISM ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
This special issue on the life and legacy of Bernard Narokobi documents and contextualizes Narokobi's life and thought. A central figure in Papua New Guinea's transition from Australian territory to independent nation, Narokobi was a jurist, philosopher, and poet who is best remembered for making 'the Melanesian Way' an important theme – if not the guiding ideological principle – in the discourse of independence in Papua New Guinea. In looking closely at Narokobi's biography, the collection also contributes to a growing body of work on political life writing in the Pacific. The collection speaks to Narokobi's role as a theorist of Oceanic modernity more broadly, one who deserves a place alongside two other important philosophers of Pacific independence, Epeli Hau'ofa and Jean-Marie Tjibaou, as one of the main visionaries of Pacific decolonization and Oceanic modernity of the post-war period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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8. A 'Nation of Villages' and a Village 'Nation State': The Arapesh Model for Bernard Narokobi's Melanesian Way.
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Dobrin, Lise M.
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VILLAGES , *POLITICIANS , *ARAPESH (Papua New Guinean people) , *DECOLONIZATION ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Published writings by the Papua New Guinean politician and intellectual Bernard Narokobi present modern Papua New Guinea as a projection of village-based social relations; as he writes in Foundations for Nationhood, 'We are a nation of villages'. This article explores Narokobi's idea of Papua New Guinea as a village writ large, showing how this conceptualization drew upon his experience of a particular historical and cultural place, the Arapesh village of Wautogik in the mountains of East Sepik Province, where he spent his childhood and returned regularly throughout his life, and which he described as a nation unto itself in an unpublished manuscript that he composed in his later years. Beyond finding reflection in his writings, which often build upon Arapesh concepts and motifs, Narokobi's valorization of Wautogik as a worthy model led him to reciprocally invest, in a deeply principled way, in the village's continued vitality and integrity as a social entity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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9. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Country Report.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
A country report for Papua New Guinea is presented from publisher PRS Group, Inc., with topics including economic conditions, political structure, and tariff and non-tariff barriers.
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- 2019
10. PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
A country report for Papua New Guinea is presented from publisher PRS Group with topics including government stability in the country, economic conditions of the country, and investment profile of the country.
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- 2020
11. In Papua New Guinea, Political Infighting and Debt Hamper Marape's Reforms.
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Green, David
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PRIME ministers ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,PUBLIC debts ,LEGISLATIVE bodies ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The article examines how political infighting and debt hamper Papua New Guinea's prime minister, James Marape's reform. It mentions that Marape's own deputy prime minister, Sam Basil, and his foreign minister, Patrick Pruaitch had expressed frustration with the government's economic performance, especially its mounting debt. It mentions Basil and Pruaitch announced a serious challenge to Marape's leadership that gave Namah support to seize control of Parliament.
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- 2020
12. Papua New Guinea: Country Report.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
A country report for Papua New Guinea is presented from publisher The PRS Group Inc., with topics including political risk, economic indicators, and social conditions.
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- 2018
13. Papua New Guinea: 2018 Country Review.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
A country report for Papua New Guinea is presented from publisher Country Watch, with topics including economic condition, political structure, and investment overview.
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- 2018
14. The micro-politics of implementing and resisting principal-agent relations in a weak state.
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Walton, Grant W.
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AGENCY (Law) , *COLLECTIVE action , *PUBLIC administration , *DECENTRALIZATION in government , *SUBNATIONAL governments ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
To understand why quality of government (QoG) varies, scholars have drawn on two theoretical approaches: principal-agent and collective action theories. The literature tends to bifurcate these two theories, and focuses on the national scale and the structural conditions under which collective action and principal-agent problems arise. This article highlights how principal-agent relationships and collective action problems shape the implementation of decentralisation policy in two subnational governments in Papua New Guinea. It is argued that pathways to QoG are contextual, and determined by both principal-agent and collective action relationships. In the case of PNG, these relations are shaped by history, culture and the agency of elites and citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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15. Anti‐Conservatism: Paul Hasluck and Liberal Development in Papua New Guinea.
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MacWilliam, Scott
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CONSERVATISM , *LIBERALISM ,AUSTRALIAN politics & government ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,AUSTRALIAN history - Abstract
In the continuing debates about the relative importance of conservatism and liberalism in the history of the Australian Liberal Party, one important dimension remains absent. Liberal developmentalism as an important anti‐conservative strand of thought was critical to the party's formative years after the Second World War as a party of government. The importance of this facet of liberalism is illustrated here by reference to the role of long‐serving Minister for Territories Paul Hasluck in overseeing development in Papua and New Guinea (PNG). Hasluck and the Australian Administration formulated policy intended to secure the indigenous population on rural smallholdings at higher standards of living before industrialisation's anticipated effects of proletarianisation could take effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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16. Bureaucracy: Is It an Issue in the Developing World of Papua New Guinea?
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Lea, David
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BUREAUCRACY ,FINANCIALIZATION ,ORGANIZATION management ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,HUMAN capital ,PUBLIC sector ,PRIVATE sector - Abstract
This article will address the growth of bureaucracy as a phenomenon that in the West has been driven by the financialization of the economy. Undoubtedly these developments have an influence on the developing world. The article will consider the bureaucratic realities in the private and public sectors of Papua New Guinea and ultimately assess the growth and functionality of organizational bureaucratic practice. It suggests that, as in the West, bureaucratic excess has resulted in an inefficient use of human capital. It will offer suggestions to mitigate this effect but will also recognize the difficulties of overcoming these organizational tendencies fueled by hierarchical impulses in the West and tribal affiliations in Papua New Guinea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
17. Introduction: The Politics of Order in Contemporary Papua New Guinea.
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Golub, Alex
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POLITICAL anthropology , *POLITICAL customs & rites , *SOCIAL movements , *SOCIAL sciences ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
This collection of articles seeks to demonstrate that the concept of order - the intensive and extensive coordination of human action across space and time - is useful for answering some of the most pressing theoretical and practical questions in contemporary Papua New Guinea (PNG) today. Building on existing work in this field [Benda-Beckmann, K., and F. Pirie. 2007. "Introduction." In Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives, 1-15. New York: Berghahn Books] in this special issue we ask: How do people create enduring, stable, and routinised life in contemporary Melanesia today? We position our work as the next step in a growing movement to study contemporary institutions in PNG as order-making projects, rather than attempting to divide them into legitimate projects like 'government' and false or ineffective ones like 'cargo cults'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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18. Mipela Makim Gavman: Unofficial Village Courts and Local Perceptions of Order in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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Schwoerer, Tobias
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POLITICAL leadership , *CONFLICT management , *POWER (Social sciences) , *DISPUTE resolution ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
In remote villages of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where official village courts and other state institutions are absent, local leaders routinely hold unofficial village courts to maintain law and order. They base their decisions on local perceptions of order and justice, all the while emulating elements of state justice and constantly referring to the state as the source of their legitimacy. As these unofficial judicial institutions historically emerged as a convergence of local patterns of leadership with colonial concepts of order, they neither form a completely new nor completely autochthonous method of conflict settlement, but are an example of para-statehood, in which local leaders take on state functions in the absence of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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19. Administrative law and customary law in Papua New Guinea.
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Corrin, Jennifer
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ADMINISTRATIVE law , *CUSTOMARY law , *PUBLIC officers , *JUDICIAL review ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
This article commences with a review of the administrative law regime in Papua New Guinea, including the avenues for review of administrative decisions. Against this background, the constitutional mandate to take a Papua New Guinean approach to the development of administrative law is considered. More specifically, the article explores the approach of the courts to review of decisions involving customary law. The article also discusses whether decisions of traditional leaders are or should be subject to judicial review, given that the notion of governmental action has been expanded to cover not only action taken by government officials and officers acting for statutory bodies, but also actions by private persons who are part of a framework of governmental control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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20. Interrogating scale in the REDD+ assemblage in Papua New Guinea.
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Pascoe, Sophie
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,DEFORESTATION ,CONTROL of forest degradation ,CLIMATE change ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
Highlights • Scalar discourses can become dominant in environmental governance initiatives. • Scalar discourses define arenas of governance which may exclude certain groups. • Assemblage-thinking can be used to interrogate scalar discourses. • Assemblage-thinking reimagines relations between power and spatiality. Abstract This paper traces the relations and frictions that make up the institutional assemblage for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program in Papua New Guinea (PNG). By engaging with REDD+ using assemblage-thinking – a theoretical orientation and method that focuses on relationality, heterogeneity and emergence – this paper interrogates the dominance of scalar discourses around climate change and environmental governance. While scalar discourses predefine categories and hierarchies (such as the 'global,' 'national' and 'local'), assemblage-thinking offers a method to resist such framings and reimagine relations between power and spatiality. Through institutional ethnography and discourse analysis, this paper critically examines how scalar discourses become dominant and how they translate into environmental governance projects, specifically the Central Suau REDD+ Pilot Project. By using assemblage-thinking to problematise scalar discourses, we can see how such discourses may reinscribe inequalities by defining arenas of governance that work to exclude certain groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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21. Papua New Guinea.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
A country report for Papua New Guinea is presented from publisher The PRS Group Inc., with topics including economic forecasting, political structure, and social conditions.
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- 2017
22. PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
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STIEFVATER, JAMES
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ELECTIONS , *IMMIGRATION detention centers ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article presents an overview of political conditions and events in Papua New Guinea in 2017. Topics covered include the general election, the discontinuation of Australia's offshore refugee detention and processing center, and the arrest warrant of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.
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- 2018
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23. BOUGAINVILLE.
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BOEGE, VOLKER
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BOUGAINVILLE Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988-1998 , *RECONCILIATION , *REFERENDUM ,BOUGAINVILLE Island autonomy & independence movements ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article provides an overview of the political, economic, and social conditions in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 2017. Topics covered include peacekeeping efforts to end the conflict that begin in the 1980s over the Panguna gold and copper mine, independence referendums, and the activism of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG).
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- 2018
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24. Papua New Guinea in 2016.
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MAY, RONALD
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POLITICAL corruption ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill came under continuing pressure to step down pending resolution of corruption charges but resisted demands from university students and civil society groups and convincingly defeated a parliamentary vote of no confidence. Papua New Guinea experienced a further decline in GDP growth and faced landowner threats to shut down liquefied natural gas production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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25. The digital divide in Papua New Guinea.
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SAGRISTA, MARIA and MATBOB, PATRICK
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,INTERNET ,ACCESS to information ,ELECTRONIC government information ,JOURNALISTS ,JOURNALISM ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Access to new technology and the development of the necessary skills to master them are crucial aspects when developing countries aim to play a more important role in the current information age and knowledge-based society. New technology and the internet have the potential to enhance access to information for people and to help countries such as Papua New Guinea become active producers of knowledge, shifting away from the traditional role of passive consumption. However, new technology also has the potential to increase already existing inequalities. In this regard, exploring the concrete shortcuts brought by the digital divide in PNG and trying to address them for journalism education is an imperative, so that journalists in the country can bridge this gap, raise their own voices and best contribute to the development of Papua New Guinean society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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26. Standoff in Papua New Guinea.
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MATASORORO, EMILY
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STUDENT strikes ,BOYCOTTS ,PUBLIC demonstrations ,POLITICAL corruption ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
A widespread student national boycott of classes and protests against the government of Peter O'Neill in Papua New Guinea during May and June 2016, supported by many civil society groups and activists. The epicentre of these protests was the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) in the nation's capital, Port Moresby. Demonstrations stirred by allegations of corruption against Prime Minister O'Neill grew in intensity until police opened fire on peaceful protesters on June 8. The protests were largely organised by the elected UPNG Student Representative Council, which entered into alliances with other tertiary student bodies, especially at the University of Technology in Lae, and civil society groups such as UPNG Focus and the Community Coalition Against Corruption. The essential argument of the students was that instead of thwarting investigations into allegations that $30 million of fraudulent legal bills were paid to the legal firm Paraka Lawyers, O'Neill should resign from office and present himself to the police investigators for questioning as they had demanded. This article focuses on the student leadership's role and critiques the coverage of two major national press outlets, the PNG Post-Courier and The National, leading to the temporary shutdown of the university. It argues that there were issues of ethics and integrity at stake with both students and the news media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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27. Papua New Guinea: 2015 Country Review.
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Coleman, Denise Youngblood
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,POLITICAL stability ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The article focuses on the political and economic condition in Papua New Guinea as of 2015 and provides information on the political stability, real gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation, and foreign investment index of the country.
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- 2015
28. Papua New Guinea.
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POLITICAL risk (Foreign investments) ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,BUSINESS conditions ,ECONOMIC forecasting ,ECONOMIC indicators ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The publication presents economic and political risk forecasts for Papua New Guinea as of November 2014. Topics discussed include the 18-month and 5-year forecasts of risk factors affecting the country's business climate, the three most likely regimes to hold power in the given time frame, and ten years of historical economic data, and information on the people, parties, and organizations most likely to influence the level of political risk in the country.
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- 2015
29. The Political Economy of Road Management Reform: Papua New Guinea's National Road Fund.
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Dornan, Matthew
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INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) , *ECONOMIC policy ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Papua New Guinea's (PNG's) road system is in a parlous state after decades of neglect. More than half of the roads in the country require urgent rehabilitation. The PNG Government sought from 2003 to address the problem through the establishment of a Road Fund designed to earmark revenue for road management. Development partners supported these efforts, which were similar to reforms implemented in other parts of the world. This article examines the establishment of an independent road fund and road management agency in PNG. It finds that these reforms have not markedly improved road conditions, and that they have been undermined by a lack of support from political leaders and parts of the civil service. The article's conclusion, that the establishment of a road fund is no panacea against political obstacles to road maintenance funding, is relevant to a broader literature concerning the establishment of independent institutions to address governance challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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30. Coral Roads and their Sorcery: Lost Authority and Spectral Commodification in Buka.
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Oppermann, Thiago Cintra
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WITCHCRAFT , *COMMODIFICATION , *SOCIAL order , *SOCIAL control , *TRADITIONAL authority ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Sorcery in Buka, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, is understood as reprehensible in most present contexts, but it is also believed to have once played a constructive role in maintaining social order. This mytheme is important both to the analysis of how traditional systems of sorcery come to be rearticulated in postcolonial contexts, and as a means of understanding how villagers conceptualise social order itself. Here, an analysis of the selective means by which vernacular forms of sorcery are assimilated to the Tok Pisin term poisen is presented together with an examination of the history of institutions of social control in which sorcery is remembered - and forgotten - to have played key roles. In the past, sorcery would have been gavman blong peles, a 'village government', a power over and from people, accumulated by the hierarchical integration of lineages within houses known as tsuhana. Sorcery has been privatized and commodified, slipping out of control of traditional authorities, who now pursue a strategy of achieving power over land. Power from people entails, in the Buka context, sorcery or other forms of internalised violence; power over land entails the assertion exclusivist genealogical claims. The pursuit of such claims is mediated by courts, and frequently creates rifts in communities. Sorcery, once freed from its role as government, returns to haunt traditional authorities as the spectre of their former power, and as the spectre of resistance to their current power: to the extent that they emphasize the historical role of poisen, the more they are suspected of it; imagined as the anarchy of jealousies, poisen multiplies in proportion to their success in parlaying forms of traditional authority into economic and political advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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31. Political reconciliation in Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Bougainville: the dark side of hybridity.
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Wallis, Joanne, Jeffery, Renee, and Kent, Lia
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RECONCILIATION , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation on peace , *LEGITIMACY of governments ,TIMOR-Leste politics & government ,SOLOMON Islands politics & government ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
In recent years, the study and practice of political reconciliation has experienced a turn to hybridity. This turn has been defined by the increased rate at which liberal international and local peacebuilding practices, and their underlying ideas, have become merged, integrated or co-located in time and space. While hybrid approaches to reconciliation have been praised as an effective means of engaging local populations in peacebuilding operations, little attention has been paid to examining whether or not they also bring unintended negative consequences. Drawing on the cases of Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Bougainville, this article examines the potentially dark side of hybridity. It demonstrates that, in each of these cases, hybrid approaches to political reconciliation have brought both positive and negative consequences. On the positive side of the equation, hybridity has seen imported international approaches to reconciliation adapted to meet local demands and ensure resonance with local populations. On the negative side, however, the misappropriation and instrumentalisation of local practices within hybrid approaches has served to damage their legitimacy and to jeopardise their contributions to reconciliation. The article thus concludes that the existence and extent of this dark side necessitates a re-evaluation of how hybrid approaches to political reconciliation are planned and implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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32. Is Culture the Cause? Choices, Expectations, and Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
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Wood, Terence
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ELECTIONS , *PRACTICAL politics , *VOTERS ,SOLOMON Islands politics & government ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Research on Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea typically offers one of two explanations for the choices voters make, and the way these choices contribute to those countries' poor political governance. The first explanation focuses on culture's influence on the expectations that voters hold of politicians, contending that the Big Man style of local leadership traditionally found in both countries has shaped voter expectations in ways that cause voters to demand local or personal benefits from MPs rather than good national governance. The second explanation hinges on rational choice models of voter behaviour and does not include culture in its list of explanatory variables. In this paper I argue that neither explanation fits well with key features of these countries' politics. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data I show that, while voters are broadly rational and can readily distinguish modern politics from traditional leadership, culture still matters. In particular, informal institutions, associated with the countries' cultural contexts, influence voter behaviour and electoral collective action, and through this political governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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33. Dystopian realities and archival dreams in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea.
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Bell, Joshua A.
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INTERNATIONAL business enterprises ,NATIONAL archives ,ANCESTORS ,DYSTOPIAS ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Copyright of Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale is the property of Berghahn Books and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2016
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34. Torture as Theatre in Papua.
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Hernawan, Budi
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TORTURE in motion pictures ,IMPUNITY ,CRUEL & unusual punishment ,TORTURE laws ,TORTURE victims ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Despite international and national exposure, torture in Papua remains widespread and systematic; it is also surrounded by virtually complete impunity and denial. This article analyses torture through a Foucauldian perspective and conceptualizes torture as “theatre” in order to fill the gap of understanding state violence in Papua. Theatricality proffers a new analytical lens to examine the phenomenon by exploring the interplay and dynamics of four interrelated elements: the rationalities that underpin the web of power relations, the techniques of domination, the actors with their multiple and fluid identities, and finally their motivational postures. Taking a Foucauldian perspective, the article analyses the way the Indonesian state exhibits sovereign power to govern Papua as a docile body, and conceptualizes torture as an element of “the art of government”. The analysis is based on 431 cases of torture in Papua during 1963–2010 as well as 214 testimonies of torture survivors, perpetrators and spectators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
35. ENACTING THE ABSENT STATE.
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Tuomas Tammisto
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OIL palm ,STATE formation -- History ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,IMMIGRANTS ,PLANTATIONS - Abstract
In this article I examine the relationship between new oil-palm plantations and state-formation in Pomio, a remote rural district of East New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea). I am particularly interested in the kinds of spaces of governance produced by the new oil-palm plantations and how this contributes to state formation and territorialisation in Pomio. Plantations in Pomio do not became state-like spaces as a result of top-down processes alone, but also because of active worker initiatives. By contributing to state formation in this way, the inhabitants of Pomio also make claims on what the state should be like. While plantations become governable and state-like spaces, they do not produce simply governable subjects, nor do they produce a uniformly governable territory, but an uneven space in which some places are more governable than others. The inhabitants of Pomio move between these places in their pursuit of different goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
36. Papua New Guinea.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,HISTORY of Papua New Guinea ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The article presents an overview of Papua New Guinea, including the country's demographic and geographic profile, and discusses several topics that include Papua New Guinea's history, politics, government, economy, people, culture, and environmental issues as of July 1, 2014.
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- 2014
37. Papua New Guinea.
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POLITICAL risk (Foreign investments) ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,CABINET officers ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
he article reports on political, financial, and economic developments in Papua New Guinea and assesses its country risk. Topics include. how the reshuffle of the cabinet of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has added the petroleum and energy ministry to the internal security portfolios under the People's National Congress' control and the implications of contractual uncertainties on resource sector projects.
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- 2014
38. ELECTION WATCH.
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VOTING registers ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article offers brief information on several global election results from June to September 2017 with details on its registered voters, percentage of voters and winning political candidates from countries including Albania, Kenya and Papua New Guinea.
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- 2017
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39. PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
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KANTHA, SOLOMON
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CORRUPTION investigation , *ARREST , *TASK forces ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article focuses on the political and governmental history in Papua New Guinea. Topics discussed include the challenges face by the government of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, arrest of O'Neill after the Investigation Task Force Sweep (ITFS), and National Executive Council (NEC) decisions regarding the ITFS disbanding.
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- 2015
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40. STUDIES IN JURISPRUDENCE.
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Greenwell, John
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JURISPRUDENCE , *POLITICAL autonomy , *CIVIL law , *COMMON law , *DEMOCRACY ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The following analysis of Legal Orders, and of Legalism in particular, derive from my study of jurisprudence and history, and from the three fields in which I worked as a lawyer – barrister; government lawyer and adviser, and as Head of the Papua New Guinea Office in the movement of Papua New Guinea to self-government and Independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
41. Fake It Until You Make It: Searching for Mimesis in Buka Village Politics.
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Oppermann, Thiago Cintra
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MIMESIS , *POLITICAL anthropology , *SOCIAL history ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
Contemporary Melanesian communities face difficulties both because of the withdrawal of government services and the continued influence of clientelism within the politics of the distributive state. A notable reaction to both these problems is the organisation of a broad class of groups that may be termed 'parastatal': informal organisations, often evanescent, which form around the state and its absence. These may often appear as 'mimetic' of recognisable state forms. Characteristically, the analysis of such 'mimesis' in Melanesia is framed by doubt that the emulation of state forms extends to the alleged rationality or 'interiority' of the state. Here, a case in which villagers in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville undertook to prosecute themselves for non-payment of school fees is discussed in order to expose the substantial difficulties with understanding parastatal organisation in terms of 'copying'. The case suggests integration of the villagers into the actually existing state system is much deeper than is often assumed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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42. Political Conditions.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,INTERNATIONAL alliances - Abstract
The article focuses on the political conditions in Papua New Guinea in which, as intra-parliamentary disputes, arising from unstable political alliances and leading to frequent changes in government, are a typical feature on the country's political landscape.
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- 2013
43. Principal Government Officials.
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PUBLIC officers ,ELECTIONS ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article presents information on the principal government officials of Papua New Guinea in 2013, with information on elections, head of government, and cabinet.
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- 2013
44. Leader Biography.
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POLITICAL leadership ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article presents information on the leadership in Papau New Guinea as of 2013, which information on the leadership of head of state Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, and the Governor-General Sir Michael Ogio.
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- 2013
45. Government Structure.
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CABINET system ,ELECTIONS ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article presents information on the government structure of Papua New Guinea in 2013, with informaiton on the head of the government, elections, and cabinet.
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- 2013
46. Papua New Guinea.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,POLITICAL risk (Foreign investments) ,FOREIGN investments ,BUSINESS conditions ,POLITICAL forecasting ,ECONOMIC forecasting ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the political, economic and financial condition of Papua New Guinea to help assess foreign investment risks as of September 2012. Background information on the political situation, legal policies, labor conditions as well as its social, foreign relations and government conditions is provided. Risk forecasts on likely regimes, business investments and key economic conditions are also included.
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- 2013
47. Country Forecast.
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POLITICAL forecasting ,ECONOMIC forecasting ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ELECTIONS ,FOREIGN investments - Abstract
The article presents risk forecasts on most likely regimes, international business, and key economic conditions for Papua New Guinea from 2012-2017. The reelection of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, with the support of chief rival former Prime Minister Michael Somare is seen as a step towards political stabilization after a period of uncertainty. Political unrest is seen as a barrier to foreign investment due to complicated relations with other governments and international organizations.
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- 2013
48. ICRG Annual: Papua New Guinea.
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RISK assessment ,PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,ECONOMIC development ,POLITICAL risk (Foreign investments) ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The article presents the assessment of the political, financial, economic and composite risks of Papua New Guinea as of 2012. It talks about the prolonged power struggle in the nation, the controversial judicial reforms, and risks to government's stability. It also discusses the 10-year consecutive economic growth in the nation and the need for fiscal consolidation.
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- 2012
49. Government Structure.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government - Abstract
The article provides an overview on the structure of government in Papua New Guinea as of 2012 including the country's executive branch, elections, and the type of government.
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- 2012
50. Political Conditions.
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PAPUA New Guinea politics & government ,POLITICAL leadership - Abstract
The article provides an overview of the political condition of Papua New Guinea from 1989-2011 including the country's extra-parliamentary political strife, the scandalous government of Prime Minister Julius Chad, and the retirement of Michael Thomas Somare as prime minister June 2011.
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- 2012
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