Volker Boege
Biographic Data
| ID | 3434801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Volker Boege |
| GIVEN NAMES | Volker |
| FAMILY NAME | Boege |
| SIGNATURE | BOEGE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1337-5525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Challenges and Responses
Rio Tinto And Bougainville – A Fatal Connection. A Mine, A War, And An Uncertain Future
At the end of 2019 in Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Region of Bougainville, a referendum was held on the region's future political status, in which almost 98 per cent voted for independence. Bougainville will now undergo a transition process, during which the issue of the Panguna mine is bound to resurface. The mine was at the core of a ten‐year war in the 1990s, ceasing operations because of it, and has remained closed ever since. Peace on Bouga…
Climate Change, Conflict and Peace in the Pacific: Challenges and a Pacific Way Forward
On ‘travelling traditions’: Emplaced security in Liberia and Vanuatu
Important sources of everyday security – variously labelled as customary, informal, traditional or autochthonous – are commonly associated with rural spaces and attributed to the lack of presence or traction of state institutions. However, these practices are not limited to peripheries; they can travel. Their structures, authority and legitimacy can be re-produced in new settings, often in response to the perturbations caused by conflict, while a…
The Local/International Interface in Peacebuilding: Experiences from Bougainville and Sierra Leone
In this article, internationally supported peacebuilding is conceptualized as a cross-cultural relational endeavour, with international and local actors engaged in multiple forms of interactions in a local everyday context. Using a cultural-relational approach, two cases of peacebuilding are presented: Bougainville and Sierra Leone, which are at opposite poles of the spectrum of international-local peacebuilding interaction. Peacebuilding on Boug…
Reconciliations (Melanesian style) and transitional justice
This article examines kastom reconciliations as practiced in a Melanesian cultural context in the resolution of everyday disputes and as a means of peacebuilding after large-scale violent conflict. It explores Melanesian-style reconciliation in relation to the conventional international discourse on transitional justice, asking whether kastom reconciliations are - or can be - an alternative to, or a specific 'vernacularised' form of, transitional…
Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-colonial States
This chapter addresses indigenous ways of dispute resolution in the South Pacific island state of Vanuatu. It is argued that such kastom dispute resolution is not only of relevance for the everyday life of people in rural areas and for local conflicts, but is also utilised in urban environments and in the context of the state and national politics. A number of cases from Vanuatu’s recent history are presented, in which the intervention of ‘tradit…
The rambutan, the chopper and the broken spear: Peacebuilding on Bougainville as a cross-cultural exchange
The article explores the local-international peacebuilding interactions which contributed to the success of peace formation in Bougainville (Papua New Guinea). This exploration is guided by a cultural-relational approach to understanding peace processes, with internationally supported peacebuilding conceptualised as a relational exercise in working with and across cultural difference. The focus is on everyday interactions in the local context, ad…
Vying for legitimacy in post-conflict situations: The Bougainville case
This article addresses the co-existence, interface and mutual permeation of different types of legitimacy and the ensuing hybridisation of legitimacy in fragile post-conflict situations, drawing on the case of post-conflict peacebuilding and state formation on the South Pacific island of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea). Taking Max Weber's three ideal types of legitimate authority – rational-legal, traditional and charismatic – as starting points,…
Peacebuilding and State Formation in Post‐Conflict Bougainville
For almost ten years (1989 to 1998), Bougainville was the theater of a large‐scale violent conflict. This island in the South Pacific, with an area of about 9,000 square kilometers (approximately t
Hybrid Political Orders, Not Fragile States
The concept of state fragility that has gained prominence within the development and security agenda focuses very much on deficiencies and shortcomings of governance in so-called fragile states. In contrast, the concept of hybrid political order takes a more positive outlook by focusing on the strength and resilience of sociopolitical formations that are present on the ground, that work, and that provide public goods for people and communities
Building Peace and Political Community in Hybrid Political Orders
Peacebuilding supports the emergence of stable political community in states and regions struggling with a legacy of violent conflict. This then raises the question of what political community might mean in the state in question. International peacebuilding operations have answered that question in terms of the promotion of conventional state-building along the lines of the Western Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) mode…
State Building Reconsidered: The Role of Hybridity in the Formation of Political Order
This article argues that 'tradition’ is not giving way to 'modernity’ in the South Pacific. On the contrary, custom and tradition are enjoying something of a resurgence as actors in Melanesia and Polynesia rediscover the ways in which custom enables the development of resilient communities, strong social relationships and indigenous modes of dealing with conflict and restoring social harmony. Through the lens of 'political hybridity’ (which argue…
Hybrid Political Orders, Not Fragile States
The concept of state fragility that has gained prominence within the development and security agenda focuses very much on deficiencies and shortcomings of governance in so-called fragile states. In contrast, the concept of hybrid political order takes a more positive outlook by focusing on the strength and resilience of sociopolitical formations that are present on the ground, that work, and that provide public goods for people and communities
Building Peace and Political Community in Hybrid Political Orders
Peacebuilding supports the emergence of stable political community in states and regions struggling with a legacy of violent conflict. This then raises the question of what political community might mean in the state in question. International peacebuilding operations have answered that question in terms of the promotion of conventional state-building along the lines of the Western Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) mode…
State Building Reconsidered: The Role of Hybridity in the Formation of Political Order
This article argues that 'tradition’ is not giving way to 'modernity’ in the South Pacific. On the contrary, custom and tradition are enjoying something of a resurgence as actors in Melanesia and Polynesia rediscover the ways in which custom enables the development of resilient communities, strong social relationships and indigenous modes of dealing with conflict and restoring social harmony. Through the lens of 'political hybridity’ (which argue…
Peacebuilding and State Formation in Post‐Conflict Bougainville
For almost ten years (1989 to 1998), Bougainville was the theater of a large‐scale violent conflict. This island in the South Pacific, with an area of about 9,000 square kilometers (approximately t
The Local/International Interface in Peacebuilding: Experiences from Bougainville and Sierra Leone
In this article, internationally supported peacebuilding is conceptualized as a cross-cultural relational endeavour, with international and local actors engaged in multiple forms of interactions in a local everyday context. Using a cultural-relational approach, two cases of peacebuilding are presented: Bougainville and Sierra Leone, which are at opposite poles of the spectrum of international-local peacebuilding interaction. Peacebuilding on Boug…
On ‘travelling traditions’: Emplaced security in Liberia and Vanuatu
Important sources of everyday security – variously labelled as customary, informal, traditional or autochthonous – are commonly associated with rural spaces and attributed to the lack of presence or traction of state institutions. However, these practices are not limited to peripheries; they can travel. Their structures, authority and legitimacy can be re-produced in new settings, often in response to the perturbations caused by conflict, while a…
Reconciliations (Melanesian style) and transitional justice
This article examines kastom reconciliations as practiced in a Melanesian cultural context in the resolution of everyday disputes and as a means of peacebuilding after large-scale violent conflict. It explores Melanesian-style reconciliation in relation to the conventional international discourse on transitional justice, asking whether kastom reconciliations are - or can be - an alternative to, or a specific 'vernacularised' form of, transitional…
Vying for legitimacy in post-conflict situations: The Bougainville case
This article addresses the co-existence, interface and mutual permeation of different types of legitimacy and the ensuing hybridisation of legitimacy in fragile post-conflict situations, drawing on the case of post-conflict peacebuilding and state formation on the South Pacific island of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea). Taking Max Weber's three ideal types of legitimate authority – rational-legal, traditional and charismatic – as starting points,…
Climate Change, Conflict and Peace in the Pacific: Challenges and a Pacific Way Forward
State Building Reconsidered: The Role of Hybridity in the Formation of Political Order
This article argues that 'tradition’ is not giving way to 'modernity’ in the South Pacific. On the contrary, custom and tradition are enjoying something of a resurgence as actors in Melanesia and Polynesia rediscover the ways in which custom enables the development of resilient communities, strong social relationships and indigenous modes of dealing with conflict and restoring social harmony. Through the lens of 'political hybridity’ (which argue…
Peacebuilding and State Formation in Post‐Conflict Bougainville
For almost ten years (1989 to 1998), Bougainville was the theater of a large‐scale violent conflict. This island in the South Pacific, with an area of about 9,000 square kilometers (approximately t
Hybrid Political Orders, Not Fragile States
The concept of state fragility that has gained prominence within the development and security agenda focuses very much on deficiencies and shortcomings of governance in so-called fragile states. In contrast, the concept of hybrid political order takes a more positive outlook by focusing on the strength and resilience of sociopolitical formations that are present on the ground, that work, and that provide public goods for people and communities
Building Peace and Political Community in Hybrid Political Orders
Peacebuilding supports the emergence of stable political community in states and regions struggling with a legacy of violent conflict. This then raises the question of what political community might mean in the state in question. International peacebuilding operations have answered that question in terms of the promotion of conventional state-building along the lines of the Western Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) mode…
Vying for legitimacy in post-conflict situations: The Bougainville case
This article addresses the co-existence, interface and mutual permeation of different types of legitimacy and the ensuing hybridisation of legitimacy in fragile post-conflict situations, drawing on the case of post-conflict peacebuilding and state formation on the South Pacific island of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea). Taking Max Weber's three ideal types of legitimate authority – rational-legal, traditional and charismatic – as starting points,…
Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-colonial States
This chapter addresses indigenous ways of dispute resolution in the South Pacific island state of Vanuatu. It is argued that such kastom dispute resolution is not only of relevance for the everyday life of people in rural areas and for local conflicts, but is also utilised in urban environments and in the context of the state and national politics. A number of cases from Vanuatu’s recent history are presented, in which the intervention of ‘tradit…
The rambutan, the chopper and the broken spear: Peacebuilding on Bougainville as a cross-cultural exchange
The article explores the local-international peacebuilding interactions which contributed to the success of peace formation in Bougainville (Papua New Guinea). This exploration is guided by a cultural-relational approach to understanding peace processes, with internationally supported peacebuilding conceptualised as a relational exercise in working with and across cultural difference. The focus is on everyday interactions in the local context, ad…
The Local/International Interface in Peacebuilding: Experiences from Bougainville and Sierra Leone
In this article, internationally supported peacebuilding is conceptualized as a cross-cultural relational endeavour, with international and local actors engaged in multiple forms of interactions in a local everyday context. Using a cultural-relational approach, two cases of peacebuilding are presented: Bougainville and Sierra Leone, which are at opposite poles of the spectrum of international-local peacebuilding interaction. Peacebuilding on Boug…
Reconciliations (Melanesian style) and transitional justice
This article examines kastom reconciliations as practiced in a Melanesian cultural context in the resolution of everyday disputes and as a means of peacebuilding after large-scale violent conflict. It explores Melanesian-style reconciliation in relation to the conventional international discourse on transitional justice, asking whether kastom reconciliations are - or can be - an alternative to, or a specific 'vernacularised' form of, transitional…
On ‘travelling traditions’: Emplaced security in Liberia and Vanuatu
Important sources of everyday security – variously labelled as customary, informal, traditional or autochthonous – are commonly associated with rural spaces and attributed to the lack of presence or traction of state institutions. However, these practices are not limited to peripheries; they can travel. Their structures, authority and legitimacy can be re-produced in new settings, often in response to the perturbations caused by conflict, while a…
Rio Tinto And Bougainville – A Fatal Connection. A Mine, A War, And An Uncertain Future
At the end of 2019 in Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Region of Bougainville, a referendum was held on the region's future political status, in which almost 98 per cent voted for independence. Bougainville will now undergo a transition process, during which the issue of the Panguna mine is bound to resurface. The mine was at the core of a ten‐year war in the 1990s, ceasing operations because of it, and has remained closed ever since. Peace on Bouga…
Climate Change, Conflict and Peace in the Pacific: Challenges and a Pacific Way Forward
Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Challenges and Responses
Political science (12 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (6 works) · Peacebuilding (6 works) · Law (5 works)