Light intervention
Subtitle: lessons from Bougainville
By: Anthony J. Regan
Publisher: U.S. Institute of Peace Press; Brand: United States Institute of Peace; United States Institute of Peace
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781601270610
Description: "This volume analyzes the remarkably successful Bougainville peace process, which ended a violent and deeply divisive separatist conflict that for much of the period from 1988 to 1997 destabilized both Papua New Guinea and the wider Pacific islands region. Regan outlines the origins, features, and impacts of the conflict; examines the key dynamics of the peace process that enabled local actors to initiate and largely control it; and focuses on why a light intervention was possible in this case. He also assesses the limitations of this approach, gives twenty-five lessons that highlight the dynamics that contributed to the outcomes in Bougainville, and provides insights and points of reference for those planning interventions in other contexts"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Bougainville and Papua New Guinea; title: The Bougainville conflict 1988 to 1997-an overview; title: The peace process, 1997 to 2005-an overview; title: The international intervention and its relationship to local actors; title: The 2001 political settlement and its implementation through 2010; title: Sources of ongoing tension and conflict, 2005 to 2010; title: Twenty-five lessons from the international peacebuilding intervention; title: Reconsidering the "light footprint" of the Bougainville intervention.