Features Archive October 2021
New USP Research Paper Explores Journalism Culture in the Region
What are the views of Pacific journalists on professional ethical issues and what pressures affect their work? What is the age, experience, qualifications and gender breakdown of the Pacific journalist corps?
Justice for Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in PNG?
Jesten Jessy was bedridden with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Human Cost of the Pacific’s COVID-19 Recession
The socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 are devastating communities in the Pacific and Timor-Leste as much as the virus itself, and sometimes to an even greater extent.
Indigenous Diplomacy in Solomon Islands
Pacific leaders should look to Guadalcanal’s system of popo and supu diplomacy as examples of how to utilise local practices to address national problems, Gordon Leua Nanau writes.
UNDP, PIF and UK Government Call for Increased Effectiveness of Climate Finance in the Pacific
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have released a discussion paper which highlights some of the issues on climate finance effectiveness in the Pacific region.
Ron May: First Contact
Ron May has spent more than 50 years working in and on Papua New Guinea, including 32 years at The Australian National University (ANU), where he was one of the forces behind the establishment of State, Society and Governance in Melanesia, now the Department of Pacific Affairs.