Miranda Forsyth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda Forsyth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Forsyth |
| SIGNATURE | FORSYTH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice
Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice
Kill All The Sorcerers
This paper provides new insights into how violence in war structures peacetime violence by highlighting how war alters ontological positions or worldviews, such as those concerning the relevance of threat of harm through spiritual means. It presents a detailed case study of sorcery accusations and related violence before, during and after Bougainville’s decade long civil war. New empirical data are used to illustrate the mechanisms through which …
Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development
Using the concept of hybridity to guide social change through legal means
This paper discusses the potential of the concept of hybridity to be used to guide or inform law reform or regulatory reform in legally plural contexts. It argues such an approach starts with the conception of multiple fluid legal orders that spill over into each other and at any one time have the potential to go in multiple different directions. Taking this understanding as a starting point leads to potentially useful ways to consider difficult …
Hybridity in peacebuilding and development
The concept of hybridity has been used in numerous ways by scholars across a range of disciplines to generate important analytical and methodological insights. Its most recent application in the social sciences has also attracted powerful critiques that have highlighted its limitations and challenged its continuing usage. This article, which introduces the collection on Critical Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development, examines whether the val…
Making the case for a pluralistic approach to intellectual property regulation in developing countries
Many of the poorest and least developed countries in the world are currently experiencing pressure to adopt global intellectual property regimes in order to promote their socio-economic development. These regimes are claimed to be necessary to stimulate innovation, creativity and the transfusion of new knowledge. However, international organizations and developing agencies making such claims often overlook the existing local intellectual property…
What the Political Corruption Scandal of 2015 Reveals about Checks and Balances in Vanuatu Governance
A series of dramatic events occurred in Vanuatu in late 2015 involving the conviction of 15 MPs for bribery, purported pardons given by the acting president and a contested dissolution of parliament. This paper analyses the significance of these events from both a political and legal perspective, in particular, considering the extent to which they were unprecedented and exceptional in terms of Vanuatu’s history. Certainly, the trial and convictio…
People, plants, place, and rules
This paper considers the rules informing the use of plants and associated knowledges in the Pacific, particularly Vanuatu, in the context of the introduction into the Pacific region of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Nagoya Protocol, which entered into force in October 2014, brings both new international …
Intellectual Property and Food Security in Least Developed Countries
This paper analyses the impact of intellectual property laws on food security in Least Developed Countries, taking the Pacific Islands countries as an example. It argues that IP laws are increasingly impacting upon food security, but are not being adequately taken into account in national policy development. Consequently, national IP regimes are developing in ways that undermine, rather than promote, food security. The paper argues that the parti…
"Lifting the Lid on "The Community
This article explores some key considerations around determining who should have the right to control access to, and benefit from, traditional knowledge and intangible cultural heritage. It highlights the complexities involved in these considerations by examining in detail the different claims to control by different segments of the population in regard to two case studies: Samoan tattooing and the Vanuatu land dive. It uses insights from this an…
Spinning a Conflict Management Web in Vanuatu
This article argues that increasing the quality of conflict management in legally plural countries requires creating and strengthening linkages between state and non-state justice systems. Given that the resources relevant to conflict management are currently held by both state and non-state actors and institutions, this will facilitate a more efficient and effective sharing of these resources. It will also help to eliminate the problems involved…
A Typology of Relationships between State and Non-State Justice Systems
The literature on non-state justice in more than 20 states is surveyed to provide an analysis of the range of possible relationships between state and non-state justice systems. The following models are considered with respect to their advantages and disadvantages, and the circumstances in which they should be considered: \n \n1.Repression of a non-state justice system by the state system. \n \n2.Formal independence between the systems but tacit …
What the Political Corruption Scandal of 2015 Reveals about Checks and Balances in Vanuatu Governance
A series of dramatic events occurred in Vanuatu in late 2015 involving the conviction of 15 MPs for bribery, purported pardons given by the acting president and a contested dissolution of parliament. This paper analyses the significance of these events from both a political and legal perspective, in particular, considering the extent to which they were unprecedented and exceptional in terms of Vanuatu’s history. Certainly, the trial and convictio…
Kill All The Sorcerers
This paper provides new insights into how violence in war structures peacetime violence by highlighting how war alters ontological positions or worldviews, such as those concerning the relevance of threat of harm through spiritual means. It presents a detailed case study of sorcery accusations and related violence before, during and after Bougainville’s decade long civil war. New empirical data are used to illustrate the mechanisms through which …
Hybridity in peacebuilding and development
The concept of hybridity has been used in numerous ways by scholars across a range of disciplines to generate important analytical and methodological insights. Its most recent application in the social sciences has also attracted powerful critiques that have highlighted its limitations and challenged its continuing usage. This article, which introduces the collection on Critical Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development, examines whether the val…
People, plants, place, and rules
This paper considers the rules informing the use of plants and associated knowledges in the Pacific, particularly Vanuatu, in the context of the introduction into the Pacific region of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Nagoya Protocol, which entered into force in October 2014, brings both new international …
"Lifting the Lid on "The Community
This article explores some key considerations around determining who should have the right to control access to, and benefit from, traditional knowledge and intangible cultural heritage. It highlights the complexities involved in these considerations by examining in detail the different claims to control by different segments of the population in regard to two case studies: Samoan tattooing and the Vanuatu land dive. It uses insights from this an…
Using the concept of hybridity to guide social change through legal means
This paper discusses the potential of the concept of hybridity to be used to guide or inform law reform or regulatory reform in legally plural contexts. It argues such an approach starts with the conception of multiple fluid legal orders that spill over into each other and at any one time have the potential to go in multiple different directions. Taking this understanding as a starting point leads to potentially useful ways to consider difficult …
Intellectual Property and Food Security in Least Developed Countries
This paper analyses the impact of intellectual property laws on food security in Least Developed Countries, taking the Pacific Islands countries as an example. It argues that IP laws are increasingly impacting upon food security, but are not being adequately taken into account in national policy development. Consequently, national IP regimes are developing in ways that undermine, rather than promote, food security. The paper argues that the parti…
A Typology of Relationships between State and Non-State Justice Systems
The literature on non-state justice in more than 20 states is surveyed to provide an analysis of the range of possible relationships between state and non-state justice systems. The following models are considered with respect to their advantages and disadvantages, and the circumstances in which they should be considered: \n \n1.Repression of a non-state justice system by the state system. \n \n2.Formal independence between the systems but tacit …
Spinning a Conflict Management Web in Vanuatu
This article argues that increasing the quality of conflict management in legally plural countries requires creating and strengthening linkages between state and non-state justice systems. Given that the resources relevant to conflict management are currently held by both state and non-state actors and institutions, this will facilitate a more efficient and effective sharing of these resources. It will also help to eliminate the problems involved…
"Lifting the Lid on "The Community
This article explores some key considerations around determining who should have the right to control access to, and benefit from, traditional knowledge and intangible cultural heritage. It highlights the complexities involved in these considerations by examining in detail the different claims to control by different segments of the population in regard to two case studies: Samoan tattooing and the Vanuatu land dive. It uses insights from this an…
Intellectual Property and Food Security in Least Developed Countries
This paper analyses the impact of intellectual property laws on food security in Least Developed Countries, taking the Pacific Islands countries as an example. It argues that IP laws are increasingly impacting upon food security, but are not being adequately taken into account in national policy development. Consequently, national IP regimes are developing in ways that undermine, rather than promote, food security. The paper argues that the parti…
Making the case for a pluralistic approach to intellectual property regulation in developing countries
Many of the poorest and least developed countries in the world are currently experiencing pressure to adopt global intellectual property regimes in order to promote their socio-economic development. These regimes are claimed to be necessary to stimulate innovation, creativity and the transfusion of new knowledge. However, international organizations and developing agencies making such claims often overlook the existing local intellectual property…
What the Political Corruption Scandal of 2015 Reveals about Checks and Balances in Vanuatu Governance
A series of dramatic events occurred in Vanuatu in late 2015 involving the conviction of 15 MPs for bribery, purported pardons given by the acting president and a contested dissolution of parliament. This paper analyses the significance of these events from both a political and legal perspective, in particular, considering the extent to which they were unprecedented and exceptional in terms of Vanuatu’s history. Certainly, the trial and convictio…
People, plants, place, and rules
This paper considers the rules informing the use of plants and associated knowledges in the Pacific, particularly Vanuatu, in the context of the introduction into the Pacific region of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Nagoya Protocol, which entered into force in October 2014, brings both new international …
Using the concept of hybridity to guide social change through legal means
This paper discusses the potential of the concept of hybridity to be used to guide or inform law reform or regulatory reform in legally plural contexts. It argues such an approach starts with the conception of multiple fluid legal orders that spill over into each other and at any one time have the potential to go in multiple different directions. Taking this understanding as a starting point leads to potentially useful ways to consider difficult …
Hybridity in peacebuilding and development
The concept of hybridity has been used in numerous ways by scholars across a range of disciplines to generate important analytical and methodological insights. Its most recent application in the social sciences has also attracted powerful critiques that have highlighted its limitations and challenged its continuing usage. This article, which introduces the collection on Critical Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development, examines whether the val…
Kill All The Sorcerers
This paper provides new insights into how violence in war structures peacetime violence by highlighting how war alters ontological positions or worldviews, such as those concerning the relevance of threat of harm through spiritual means. It presents a detailed case study of sorcery accusations and related violence before, during and after Bougainville’s decade long civil war. New empirical data are used to illustrate the mechanisms through which …
Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development
The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice
Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Business (3 works) · International Maritime Law Issues (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Traditional knowledge (3 works)