A kind of mending : restorative justice in the Pacific Islands / edited by Sinclair Dinnen ; with Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dinnen, Sinclair, editor.

Jowitt, Anita, editor.

Cain, Tess Newton, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restorative justice--Oceania.

Restorative justice.

Dispute resolution (Law)--Oceania.

Dispute resolution (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and informal methods of dispute resolution contain useful insights for policy makers and others interested in socially attuned resolutions to the problems of order that are found increasingly in the Pacific Islands as elsewhere. Contributors to this volume include Pacific Islanders from Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea including Bougainville, as well as outsiders with a longstanding interest in the region. They come from a variety of backgrounds and include criminal justice practitioners, scholars, traditional leaders and community activists. The chapters deal with conflict in a variety of contexts, from interpersonal disputes within communities to large-scale conflicts between communities. This is a book not only of stories but also of practical models that combine different traditions in creative ways and that offer the prospect of building more sustainable resolutions to crime and conflict.

Contents:

Preliminary; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Maps; Restorative justice in the pacific islands: An introduction; The fundamentals of restorative justice; The age of steam: Constructed identity and recalcitrant youth in a Papua New Guinea village.; Tribal warfare and transformative justice in the new guinea highlands; Restorative justice and women in vanuatu; Vanuatu law, the police and restorative justice; Restorative programs in the formal justice system of vanuatu; Conflict resolutionin a multi-cultural urban setting in papua new guinea

Restorative justice in papua new guinea: A collaborative effortRehabilitation for change in fiji:a women's initiative; The vanuatu cultural centre'sjuvenile justice project; The lakalakabulu area council of chiefs in vanuatu; Re-inventingthe cultural wheel:; Informal justice in law and justice reform in the pacific region; Restorative justice in the solomon islands; Bougainville women's role in conflict resolution in the bougainville peace process; Restorative justice in bougainville; A marriage of custom and introduced skills:restorative justice, bougainville style

Epilogue - some thoughts on restorative justice and genderReferences; Index; About the editors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781921666834

1921666838

9781921666827

192166682X

OCLC:

1250419276

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459350