[ANU Pacific.Institute] Solomon Islands Land Reform seminar

[Christopher Ballard]

School of Culture, History and Language

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific



Department of Pacific and Asian History

2015 Seminar Series



Monday, 23 November 2015, 3-4.30 pm

Seminar Room B, Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU



Attempts at Land Law Reform in Solomon Islands, 1950s - 1990s

Final oral presentation



Joseph. D Foukona

School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU



Successive colonial administrations and independent governments in the Solomon Islands have devoted considerable energy to the task of bringing customary land into the formal state system as registered estates. In this final thesis seminar, I discuss the chronology of land law reform in Solomon Islands from the 1950s to 1990s. To meet its central goal during this period of driving economic growth, the state used legal reform as its principal tool to promote social and economic change. It was in this context that the state made land law reform attempts, which were grounded on the transplant of legal innovations from elsewhere. The logic for these attempts was to promote tenure security in order to facilitate economic development. I will draw on the law and development discourse as a theoretical framework to analyse how the state's land reform attempts sought to promote development. I suggest that the design of such attempts was based on the intuition of particular actors as well as their capacity to influence proceedings.



Joseph D. Foukona is a law lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. He is from Solomon Islands and currently completing his PhD at ANU.



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