By Shabnam Mondal The Bougainville Transition Dialogues Phase 2 (BTD2) project in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB), Papua New Guinea, continues the important work initiated by the Bougainville Referendum Dialogues (BRD) and Bougainville Transition Dialogues (BTD). By providing a platform for informed and constructive discussions, the BTD2 project aims to engage Bougainvilleans in shaping […]
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Update on the 2022 Bougainville Transition Dialogues Data Collection
Over the past few weeks, we have been collating all the data gathered from phase 2 of the Bougainville Transition Dialogues into excel spreadsheets. Our team has been reading through responses from each constituency across Bougainville and entering the survey responses and facilitator feedback into spreadsheets. With the survey data, we can continue to analyse […]
Bougainville Transition Dialogues Update with Mr James Tanis
The PaCSIA team has just returned from another field trip to Bougainville in which we met with our local facilitators from Central and Bana areas and discussed the progress of the consultation process between the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) with important stakeholders. We are happy to share a video […]
Bougainville Transition Dialogues Phase 2 Annual Report published
Phase 2 of the Bougainville Transition Dialogues started in the middle of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and during a time when the Australian international borders were closed. This required significant changes to how we have worked in Bougainville before the pandemic. PaCSIA’s initial project application and plan suggested that travel to from Australia to Bougainville […]
Wokabaut Senis – Walkabout for peaceful change in Bougainville
PaCSIA is proud to present the documentary Wokabaut Senis, which showcases the work of our Bougainville Transition Dialogues project. The Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea was ravaged by terrible violent conflict in the 1990s. This was followed by a successful process of peacebuilding, with a Peace Agreement in 2001 and a Referendum […]
Rio Tinto commits to assessment of Panguna mine legacy
By Volker Boege The giant mining multinational Rio Tinto is finally willing to face the environmental catastrophe its former Panguna gold and copper mine left behind on Bougainville. This is a huge success for the people of the mine-affected communities and their international supporters. It represents a significant first step in the process of environmental […]
Start of Phase 2 of the Bougainville Transition Dialogues
With generous support from UNDP through the Supporting Peace in Bougainville Project and Misereor e.V. (the German Catholic Bishops’ Organisation for Development Cooperation) Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia (PaCSIA) and its local partners in Bougainville have started the next phase of the successful Bougainville Transition Dialogues (BTD) project. The project supports the peace process […]
Bougainville Transition Dialogues 2020 Update
The year of 2020 has seen global changes through the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of the virus has caused widespread disruptions and has also impacted on the Bougainville transition process that started when the referendum result was announced. So far Bougainville has been spared from any COVID-19 outbreak and has enacted its […]
Bougainville Transition Dialogues 2019 Annual Report published
In Bougainville, the political climax of 2019 came late in the year: On 11 December, Bertie Ahern, chairperson of the Bougainville Referendum Commission (BRC) announced the result of the referendum on the future political status of Bougainville: 181,067 people voted in November 2019 in the Bougainville Referendum. The final voter turnout was 87.4%. 176,928 votes […]
Start of the Bougainville Transition Dialogues
On 1 January 2019 our new project in Bougainville, the Bougainville Transition Dialogues (BTD), commenced. The Bougainville Transition Dialogues are a continuation of the Bougainville Referendum Dialogues (BRD) and aim to assist with the next step in Bougainville’s ongoing peacebuilding process and to encourage constructive and informed discussions among Bougainvilleans to quell some of their […]