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"Tensions is a series of plays aimed at secondary and tertiary level students in the Pacific, as well as general readers ... The theme of each play relates to the social, economic, and political pressures or tensions in Pacific Islands individuals and societies, as they come to terms with modern living ... Exercises follow each play to aid understanding of the text, characters, and issues involved and suggested role plays"--P. [4] of cover.
"Tensions is a series of plays aimed at secondary and tertiary level students in the Pacific, as well as general readers ... The theme of each play relates to the social, economic, and political pressures or tensions in Pacific Islands individuals and societies, as they come to terms with modern living ... Exercises follow each play to aid understanding of the text, characters, and issues involved and suggested role plays"--P. [4] of cover.
"Tensions is a series of plays aimed at secondary and tertiary level students in the Pacific, as well as general readers ... The theme of each play relates to the social, economic, and political pressures or tensions in Pacific Islands individuals and societies, as they come to terms with modern living ... Exercises follow each play to aid understanding of the text, characters, and issues involved and suggested role plays"--P. [4] of cover.
"Largely by reason of its isolation, the tiny volcanic island of Tikopia in the South Pacific, has managed to retain its traditional Polynesian culture far more than most Pacific islands. Almost seventy years after the life of the island community was detailed by anthropology student Raymond (later Sir Raymond) Firth, the present author, Julian Treadaway, made several visits to Tikopia, sharing the life of his Tikopian host families for many months at a time, and noting remarkable continuity with the time of Firth's visits and even before. Comparing the present with the past observed by these earlier visitors, Treadaway's stories provide a fascinating account of this continuity and change. W...
"Tensions is a series of plays aimed at secondary and tertiary level students in the Pacific, as well as general readers ... The theme of each play relates to the social, economic, and political pressures or tensions in Pacific Islands individuals and societies, as they come to terms with modern living ... Exercises follow each play to aid understanding of the text, characters, and issues involved and suggested role plays"--P. [4] of cover.
"Tensions is a series of plays aimed at secondary and tertiary level students in the Pacific, as well as general readers ... The theme of each play relates to the social, economic, and political pressures or tensions in Pacific Islands individuals and societies, as they come to terms with modern living ... Exercises follow each play to aid understanding of the text, characters, and issues involved and suggested role plays"--P. [4] of cover.
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 and business interests, that continue to undermine the state's democratic foundations. At first RAMSI's statebuilding was neither very responsive to local voices nor to root causes of the conflict, but it slowly changed tack to a more responsive form of peacebuilding. The craft of peace as learned in the Solomon Islands is about enabling spaces for dialogue that define where the mission should pull back to allow local actors to expand the horizons of their peacebuilding ambition.
The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of lifeāpre-colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, even post-conflict state building. She describes startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged from one another and from their homes. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.