[TimorLesteStudies] Workshop at ANU: Conflict, Interventionism and State-Building- Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste
Bu Wilson
bu.wilson at anu.edu.au
Tue Nov 23 12:16:11 EST 2010
Presented by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, ANU
CONFLICT, INTERVENTIONISM AND STATE-BUILDING:
Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste
Venue: University House, The Australian National University
7-8 December 2010
The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas.
DRAFT PROGRAM
DAY ONE
09.00 – 09.40 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Doug Porter and Sinclair Dinnen, WDR Melanesian Case Study
http://wdr2011.worldbank.org/melanesia
09.40–11.00 Intervention and State-Building
Anne Brown, Interrogating Interventionism: Antinomies of Conflict and Intervention in the Western Pacific
Morgan Brigg, Interventionism, ‘State’, Contingency: Exploring Emergent Order
11.00–11.20 MORNING TEA
11.20–12.40 Timor-Leste
Sue Ingram, Building the Wrong Peace: the role of UNTAET in pre-independence East Timor
Hiroko Inoue, Contested Institutions: Formal and Informal Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in East Timor
12.40-1.40 LUNCH
1.40-3.40 Timor-Leste (cont.)
Henri Myrttinen, ‘Muscling in’ Gender and the Provision of Security in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste
Edith Bowles, Conflict, Intervention, and the Legacy of the Resistance in State Formation in Timor-Leste
Bu Wilson, Crime Fiction: Regulatory Ritualism and the Failure to Develop the East Timorese Police
3.40-4.00 AFTERNOON TEA
4.00-5.00 Panel Discussion & Commentary
Anne Brown, Edith Bowles & Sue Ingram
DAY TWO
09.00–11.00 Solomon Islands
Jon Fraenkel, Revisiting the Case for Intervention in Solomon Islands
Matthew Allen, On the Causes of the Conflict in Solomon Islands
Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Re-Presenting Conflicts and the RAMSI Intervention in Solomon Islands
11.00–11.20 MORNING TEA
11.20-1.00 Bougainville & Solomon Islands
Terence Wesley-Smith, Intervention for What? State, Economy and New Beginnings in Autonomous Bougainville
Sinclair Dinnen and Anthony Regan, Bougainville & Solomon Islands’ Interventions Compared
Karene Melloul, Transitional Phase in Solomon Islands’ Policing
1.00–2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.20 Interventionism in historical perspective
Peter Lindenmann, The Flight of the Gardian (New Caledonia)
Danny McAvoy, Historical Perspectives on Relations between Australians and Solomon Islanders: Implications for Intervention
3.00–3.30 AFTERNOON TEA
3.30–5.00 Panel Discussion/commentary
Doug Porter, Terence Wesley-Smith & Bruce Baker
List of Speakers
Matthew Allen, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU
Bruce Baker, African Studies Centre, Coventry University, UK
Edith Bowles, World Bank, Solomon Islands (speaking in a private capacity)
Morgan Brigg, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of QueenslandAnne Brown, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland Sinclair Dinnen, State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU
Jon Fraenkel, State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU
Sue Ingram, State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU
Hiroko Inoue, Centre for International Governance & Justice, RegNet, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU
Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Peter Lindenmann, Ethnologisches Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland
Danny McAvoy, School of International Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
Karene Melloul, International Deployment Group, Australian Federal Police
Henri Myrtinnen, independent researcher and consultant
Doug Porter, World Bank, Sydney
Anthony Regan, State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
Terence Wesley-Smith, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Bu Wilson, Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU
Host: State Society and Governance in Melanesia Program
Website: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/melanesia/events.php
Phone SSGM 61 (0)2 6125 8394
This program is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
Dr Bu V.E. Wilson
T: Australia +61 0 407 087 086
T: Timor-Leste + 670 744 0011
E: buvewilson at gmail.com
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