TY - BOOK AU - Braithwaite, John AU - Charlesworth, Hilary AU - Reddy, Peter AU - Dunn, Leah AB - Following a bloody civil war, peace consolidated slowly and sequentially in Bougainville. That sequence was of both a top-down architecture of credible commitment in a formal peace process and layer upon layer of bottom-up reconciliation. Reconciliation was based on indigenous traditions of peacemaking. It also drew on Christian traditions of reconciliation, on training in restorative justice principles and on innovation in womens’ peacebuilding. Peacekeepers opened safe spaces for reconciliation, but it was locals who shaped and owned the peace. There is much to learn from this distinctively indigenous peace architecture. It is a far cry from the norms of a ‘liberal peace’ or a ‘realist peace’. The authors describe it as a hybrid ‘restorative peace’ in which ‘mothers of the land’ and then male combatants linked arms in creative ways. A danger to Bougainville’s peace is weakness of international commitment to honour the result of a forthcoming independence referendum that is one central plank of the peace deal. DO - 10.26530/OAPEN_459490 ID - OAPEN ID: 459490 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 655896718 KW - politics and government KW - papua new guinea KW - peace KW - history KW - autonomy KW - women KW - independence KW - bougainville island KW - Australia KW - Peacebuilding L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4e55ad77-0ca7-4139-9e77-5adfe9145d2b/459490.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33640 PB - ANU Press PP - Canberra PY - 2010 TI - Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing peace in Bougainvillenull ER -