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'Fear of Domination Sparked Anti-Chinese Riots'

This article finds that the riots in the Solomon Islands were the result of a lack of dialogue between cultures - creating an unstable situation echoed around the Pacific. (Kalinga Seneviratne, IPS News, 22 April 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32978

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"Failed State" and the War on Terror: Intervention in Solomon Islands (PDF)

A heightened sense of vulnerability to terror has touched every part of the world, including the Pacific Islands, and has linked small nations to large in new ways. Since the September 11 tragedy, concern has risen that so-called "failed states," losing the struggle to maintain law and order at home, could become springboards for terrorism. Australia has shed its reluctance to intervene militarily in Pacific trouble-spots-such as Solomon Islands, whose descent into chaos and violence was sparked in 1998 by civil unrest on Guadalcanal. With regional support, Australia led a mission in 2003 to restore law and order. A short-term success, the mission leaves questions about its long-term ability to achieve either well-being for Solomon Islands or security for the region. Its emphasis on shoring up a perennially weak central government, and its inattention to other pillars of Solomons society, threaten to undermine its success and create a crippling sense of dependency. For the mission to succeed, it must empower Solomon Islanders to take charge of their own destiny (PDF 19KB).

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/api072.pdf

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"We've seen the enemy and they is US!"

The above quote comes from a comic strip character "Pogo" when he worried out loud about the weakening environment of his swamp-home near the Mississippi River bayous. But he found out it was the very ones living in the bayous who were destroying them. This same quote says much to us today in the Solomons. John Roughan, 18th August.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5940Roughan200803.html

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$11 million boost to education in Solomon Islands

Aotearoa New Zealand Government, 20 October 2003. Aid Minister Marian Hobbs has announced an $11 million funding boost to the Solomon Islands next year, to improve access to basic education in one of the Pacific's poorest nations. NZAID, the New Zealand government's international aid and development agency, has committed $11 million to help the Solomon Islands Ministry of Education and Human Resources introduce a number of basic education programmes within the island nation's strategic plan for education. This funding will be in addition to the Solomon Island government's contribution to education, pegged at 22 percent of the total budget.

http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.cfm?DocumentID=18149

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1000 refugees on Solomon Islands Weather Coast

RNZI NEWS Created at 4:09 pm on 17 June 2003. One thousand villagers on Solomon Islands Weather Coast are reported to have fled from their homes after rebel leader, Harold Keke, took over a police post and expanded the area under his control.

http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=getarchive&day=18&month=06&year=2003

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Amnesty . . . yet again!

John Roughan, Honiara, 30 June 2003. Fijian people learnt a bitter lesson from the failed Coups of 1987. When a new coup raised its ugly head in 2000, Fiji's leaders knew exactly what to do. No more blanket amnesties for those who betray the nation, destroy its institutions and bring the nation to its knees. Solomon Islands, on the other hand, gives amnesty out freely, easily without much thought for the good of the nation but with unusual sensitivity to those who led the coup, killed, destroyed and brought the nation to its knees.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/Roughan04071003.html

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Around the World in a Minute!

By John Roughan, 19 January 2003. Solomons' Central Bank made it clear as full daylight, RAONK (Royal Assembly of Nations and Kingdoms) is a fraud, a fake, a confidence trick. Yet, government holds on to its dream of 'free big money'. Every Solomons' bank, every single one of them, informed the nation once again that the Family Charity Fund holds no funds, no money, nothing. Still people hang on hoping that by some miracle or act of God, that big money will some how come and make them rich.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/4564Roughan190103.html

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Australia's aid boomerang won't help the Solomon's

By Tim O'Connor, 2003-07-02 (AID/WATCH Media Release). The announcement by Foreign Minsister Alexnader Downer in Sydney on Monday 30th June, to send Australian troops and a new aid package to the Solomon's was met with a protest from AID/WATCH outside the Four Seasons Hotel. Despite Australia still being a democracy the peaceful protest was broken up by police and one of the committed AID/WATCHers ended up in the back of a police wagon. The Foreign Minister received the following media release.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1&display=aw00399&display_item=2

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Australian aid funds Pitokoli Health Clinic, Solomon Islands

Aus. Govt. Press Release Sept. 19th: "Once opened in November, the clinic will provide basic health services, including maternity and malaria analysis and treatment of inpatients and outpatients... The community of almost 2000 people that live in and around Pitokoli will now have access to basic health services." - Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mrs Chris Gallus.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/7997A6B581DA52AC85256DA6006EF0D8

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Australian Forces Must Expand Focus in Solomons, Consult with Islanders

HONOLULU (July 22) -- Australian-led intervention forces arriving Thursday in the Solomon Islands have widespread public support there, but it will take more than restoring law and order to bring long-term stability. The forces also should consult with the islanders on any actions they take. That was the assessment of three Solomon Islanders taking part in an East-West Center conference this week on the future of the violence-torn nation. "The guns will be taken back but what happens to the people who had the guns? What will happen after the Australians return?" asked Joseph Foukona of the Solomon Islands Christian Association Peace Office. "This intervention should bring lasting peace."

http://166.122.164.43/archive/2003/July/07-23-eww.htm

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Better to work with the devil you know . . . !

By John Roughan. Honiara, 11 August 2003. Over the last few weeks, I with many others have called for Sir Allan and his government to step aside, to resign. But that is only half the problem our country faces! Who then in parliament should take his place? Would a new PM be any better than the one we suffer with now?

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5864Roughan110803.html

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Beyond Operation Helpem Fren - An Agenda for Development in the Solomon Islands

In light of the Australian led intervention into the Solomon Islands, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad draws attention to the underlying causes of the violence there and fears that these problems will resurface if not addressed by long term development programs. Solomon Islanders will face ongoing upheaval if they are not directly involved in tackling the combination of local and global issues that affect them. July 2003

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SKAR-647H8S?OpenDocument

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Beyond Operation Helpem Fren - An Agenda for Development in the Solomon Islands (Executive Summary)

Executive Summary of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad's report regarding intervention in the Solomon Islands.

http://www.caa.org.au/world/pacific/solomons/execsum.pdf

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Beyond Operation Helpem Fren - An Agenda for Development in the Solomon Islands (Full Report - PDF)

Full text in PDF format of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad's report regarding intervention in the Solomon Islands.

http://www.caa.org.au/world/pacific/solomons/report.pdf

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Bomb is still ticking!

In this commentary John Roughan makes the case that Solomon Islands leaders never willingly tackled head on the sources of the country's deep seated difficulties, which are people centred and cannot be fixed by dole outs or relying on a growing economy.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/6214Roughan.html

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Bougainville: Beyond Survival

By Regan, Anthony J. Issue 26.3, Cultural Survival. "Located 1,000 kilometers east of the mainland national capital of Port Moresby, Bougainville is the most remote of Papua New Guinea's 19 provinces. It consists of two large islands, Bougainville (8,646 square kilometers) and Buka (598 square kilometers), separated by a narrow passage, as well as many smaller islands. Its 9,438 square kilometers constitute about two percent of Papua New Guinea's land area. Geographically, culturally, and linguistically, Bougainville is part of the Solomon Islands chain, but became part of Papua New Guinea rather than the British colony of Solomon Islands as an "accident" of late-19th century colonial map-drawing." Anthony Regan, a constitutional lawyer, advises Bougainvillean parties to the negotiations with the Papua New Guinea government on the political future of Bougainville. He is a fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1561&highlight=Bougainville:%20Beyond%20Survival

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Child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation of children in the Pacific: A regional report

This regional report is a synthesis of the findings of each country study - Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - which were conducted between October 2004 and June 2005.2 The purpose of this synthesis report is not to single out any one group for ridicule but rather to break the long-running silence surrounding the incidence, extent and nature of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation against children in the Pacific region and to prompt open, constructive community debate and new policies that aim to end the suffering of victims. (UNICEF, UNESCAP and ECPAT International, December 2006)

http://www.unicef.org/eapro/Pacific_CSEC_report.pdf

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Christian Custom and the Church as Structure in 'Weak States' in Melanesia

This paper investigates certain characteristic associations in the governance of three of the four independent states of Melanesia: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. First, the seemingly paradoxical amalgam of Christianity and tradition or custom which serves as an uneasy ideological basis for national unity and identity. Second, the always ambivalent, often tense intersections of Christianity and 'politics'. Finally, the significance of the churches, with their intensely local roots but broadly global reach, as alternative structures in the context of ineffective or even absent state institutions. (Bronwen Douglas, Australian National University, Paper given at the international conference, Civil Society, Religion & Global Governance: Paradigms of Power & Persuasion, 1-2 September 2005, Canberra)

http://law.anu.edu.au/nissl/douglas.pdf

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Collection of John Roughan articles

Solomon Islands website "Pipol Fastaem" has this collection of links to a selection of John Roughan's commentaries on development issues in the Solomon Islands.

http://www.peoplefirst.net.sb/roughan/

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Competition or Cooperation?

John Roughan in Honiara. 2 April, 2003. Solomon Islands teeters on the brink of sinking below the waves. Over the past four years different groups have used the gun in its many forms--threats, intimidation, brute force--to get their own way. Guadalcanal's militants at the end of 1998 decided that force was the only way to make the government of the day listen to their pleas for the Better Life. It was soon followed by other groups doing much the same thing!

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/4998Roughan.html

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ECSIEP Solomon Islands Update 23 July 2003

The European Centre on Pacific Issues, ECSIEP, was set up in 1992 to improve the quantity and quality of the information flow from the Pacific to Europe. It functions as a service bureau for the Europe Pacific Solidarity Network. Edited by Peter van der Vlies.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5748ECSIEP230703.html

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ECSIEP Solomon Islands Update 4 July 2003

The European Centre on Pacific Issues, ECSIEP, was set up in 1992 to improve the quantity and quality of the information flow from the Pacific to Europe. It functions as a service bureau for the Europe Pacific Solidarity Network.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5751ECSIEP040703.html

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European Community - Solomon Islands Country Strategy Paper (pdf)

Country Strategy paper and National Indicative Programme for the period 2002-2007 (PDF).

http://dev-zone.net/downloads/2802sb_csp_en.pdf

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Facing up to Reality in the Solomons

Commentary by James Chin, July 18, 2003. "The announcement by Australia that it will intervene directly in the Solomon Islands to restore law and order has met with mixed reactions in Papua New Guinea and, one suspects, in the rest of the Pacific as well".(Dr James Chin lectures in political science at the University of Papua New Guinea. He has written extensively on PNG politics).

http://166.122.164.43/archive/2001/May/05-02-15.htm

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Help arrives for tsunami-hit Solomon Islanders

Emergency supplies began arriving Tuesday in the tsunami-hit western region of the South Pacific's Solomon Islands as officials braced for more reports of death and destruction. (Relief Web, April 4 2007)

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6ZX4U4?OpenDocument&rc=5&emid=TS-2007-000042-SLB

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