Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands

by John Braithwaite

This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) has been an intensive peacekeeping operation, concentrating on building 'core pillars' of the modern state. It did not take adequate notice of a variety of shadow sources of power in the Solomon Islands, for example logging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921666781
• ISBN13: 9781921666780
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"