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Conflict and resource development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] ANU E Press 2007
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together authors with deep experience of the Southern Highlands to examine the underlying dynamics of resource development and conflict in the province. The authors provide background to recent events and explore possible approaches to limiting the human and economic costs of the ongoing conflict and breakdown of governance.
- Contents:
- Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Measurements
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Opening Remarks
- Introduction: Roots of conflict in the Southern Highlands
- The place of conflict in SHP
- The changing nature of conflict in SHP
- Roots of conflict in the Southern Highlands
- Background
- Inequitable access to services
- Ethnic tensions and lack of effective administration and governance
- Unrealistic expectations about resource development
- Early predictions
- HIV/AIDS
- Conclusion
- References
- The National Government and the Southern Highlands since the 2002 General Elections
- National government authority between the failed and supplementary elections
- Unity and devolution
- Authority to intervene following the 2002 national election
- Government services between the failed and supplementary elections
- Developments following the supplementary elections
- The Provincial Assembly
- Flow-on effects to local-level government and administration
- Implementation of 'free education'
- DPLGA from July 2003 to June 2004
- Suspension and withdrawal of functions, powers and finances from provincial governments
- The Southern Highlands Office in MIGR
- Intervention in the Southern Highlands, February 2004
- Delayed approval
- Establishment of the SH Office in DPLGA
- Recommendation for establishment of the SHP Task Force
- Recommendations for enhanced administrative interaction
- Recommendations for activating referral agencies
- Recommendations for activating provincial democracy
- Recommendations for improving law and order
- Interim intervention
- Application of grounds for suspension
- Other recent developments
- The Setting: Land, economics and development in the Southern Highlands
- References.
- The Southern Highlands: A hasty transition from unknown to riches and chaos
- History and geography
- Early leadership
- Provincial and local level government reforms
- The Court of Disputed Returns
- The churches' role in peace mediation
- The future
- Cosmology, Morality and Resource Development: SHP election outcomes and moves to establish a separate Hela Province
- Calls for a Hela province
- Cosmology and the idea of a Hela province
- The 2002-2003 elections
- 'Hoo-Ha in Huli': Considerations on commotion and community in the Southern Highlands
- Conflict - What problem? Whose problem?
- Customary dispute mechanisms in Huli
- Changing social conditions
- 1940s-1980s
- 1980s-2000
- The resource development cauldron
- From whence will solutions emerge?
- The top-down options
- National
- Provincial
- Barriers and bridges
- Issues of Stability in the Southern Highlands Province
- There was a time of order in the Southern Highlands
- Guiding principles and procedures under the kiap system
- Signs of the decline of the kiap system.
- Kiaps in resource industry community affairs organisations - some elements of adaptation
- What are the key problems now facing resource developers in SHP?
- How can the 'kiap system' address these problems?
- How it might be done
- What needs to be done
- A possible development program to meet the six key elements
- The Future of Resource Development in the Southern Highlands
- The need for contact and communication
- Leadership qualities
- Resources and the breakdown of law and order
- The future of petroleum development in the Southern Highlands
- Community-Based Development in Tari - Present and Prospects
- The situation in Tari
- Fighting and crime
- Service delivery failure
- Rural stagnation.
- Community-based development
- The Family Health and Rural Improvement Program
- Results
- Community-Based Health Care
- CBHC/FHRIP partnership
- Melanesian Farmer First Network
- Program requirements
- A Brief Overview of Government, Law and Order, and Social Matters in the Tari District
- Key factors
- Social evolution
- Illegal gun culture
- Compensation
- Lack of government
- Police
- Courts
- Health
- Education
- Provincial government personnel
- Local-level government and district administration
- Members of parliament
- Post-election activities
- What to do
- Porgera Joint Venture's Presence in the Southern Highlands Province
- The PJV presence
- Environmental impact
- Community impact
- What is required (from a resource developer's viewpoint)
- Normal government services to be available to people
- Access to a competent legal system
- Institutions to function as expected
- District and local-level government plans to be established
- The Office of Planning and Rural Development
- Donor agencies to utilise resource developers' knowledge
- What if they don't want your kind of development? Reflections on the Southern Highlands
- First contacts on the road to independence
- The new provincial administration: 1975-1984
- Youth and their communities in the Southern Highlands
- Youth projects in the Southern Highlands: Success or failure?
- The Lake Kutubu Project: 'What sort of development is this?'
- Conclusion: Whose kind of development do they want?
- Conflict Vulnerability Assessment of the Southern Highlands Province
- Historical factors
- Assumption
- Tradition of tribal fighting
- Effectiveness/applicability of traditional conflict resolution mechanisms diminished
- Trend
- Political/governance factors
- Assumptions.
- Patronage model of governance and corruption
- Volatile electoral processes with intense inter-group rivalry for political and resource control
- Service delivery breakdown
- Moribund provincial public service
- Lack of national government intervention
- Emergence of non-government service providers
- Lack of information (media)
- Separatist sentiment - Hela Province movement
- Security sector factors
- Endemic lawlessness
- Competence and size of police service
- Proliferation of small arms
- Social factors
- High level of language group (tribal) diversity
- Declining standards of living
- Poor human development indicators
- Lack of employment/income generating opportunities
- Youth bulge
- Violence against women
- High population growth rate
- 'Quick' development
- Economic factors
- Relatively large provincial cash flows
- Reliance on mining sector for provincial revenue
- Skewed income distribution
- Criminal encroachment on the informal economy
- Environment and natural resource factors
- Land/resource ownership issues
- Land pressure and growing food security issues
- International factors
- Assumptions
- Lack of engagement with other donors
- Proximity to instability/conflict in neighbouring provinces
- Illicit small arms/drugs trade
- An Inside Post-mortem on the Southern Highlands: A perspective from Tari
- The way forward to recovery
- Program one: Restoration of confidence in the SHP Government and its administration
- Appointment of a provincial administrator
- 2001 selection and recruitment
- Restructuring of the provincial administration
- Establishment of a human resource management development program.
- Appointment and placement of public servants to be based on merit
- Reactivation of the district administration centres
- Local-level government reforms
- Review of provincial and district five-year developmental rolling plans
- Effective management of and accountability for the province's finances
- Program two: Restoration of law and order
- Local disputes
- Tribal fights
- Political rivalry
- Criminal activities
- The effectiveness of government and the community justice system
- Peace for development
- Arms build-up
- Status of the law-enforcing system
- The court system
- Corrective institutions
- Program three: Restoration of education and health services
- Program four: Restoration and upgrading of the existing infrastructure
- Program five: Restoration of sustainable economic development programs
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-921313-45-5
- OCLC:
- 236169911
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