By Volker Boege PaCSIA has worked with communities affected by the environmental, social, cultural and health legacies of the Panguna copper mine in Bougainville for several years, commencing with the ‘Panguna Dialogue Project’ in 2015. For this reason we are closely following developments in attempts to hold Rio Tinto to account for the environmental destruction […]
Preloader Close
Panguna Dialogue Project
Panguna Dialogue Project Activities in July 2016
PaCSIA staff Volker Boege, Erica Rose Jeffrey and Serge Loode visited the Panguna Dialogue Project area in Central/South Bougainville for another trip in July 2015. Together with the local PDP facilitators they visited Pakia village in Ioro 2 and Sikunam-asi village in Lamane East, Bolave to conduct two more storytelling sessions with participants of the […]
Bougainville: Another round of community dialogues
In February and March another round of community dialogues for the Panguna Dialogue Project (PDP) took place on Bougainville. The dialogues were run by members of the Bougainville team of PDP. They took PDP to remote communities in the interior of Bougainville. During the three-day events community leaders discussed issues of community governance, development and […]
Community Dialogues in Bougainville October 2015
The first round of community workshops for the Panguna Dialogue Project (PDP) took place in October 2015. This was a joint endeavor by conducted by a PaCSIA team, consisting of Dr Volker Boege, Dr Serge Loode and Mrs Erica Rose Jeffrey, and a local team of Bougainville facilitators from the project area, led by Mr Dennis […]
Panguna Dialogue Project Planning Visit
From 12 August to 25 August 2015 PaCSIA directors Dr Volker Boege and Mr Serge Loode conducted a scoping and planning visit to Bougainville for the PaCSIA project ‘Building Capacity in Governance among community leaders in the Panguna Mine area, Bougainville’ – the Panguna Dialogue Project (PDP). The aim of the visit was to prepare a […]
New PaCSIA Project in Bougainville
Over the next two years, PaCSIA will be engaged in an exciting capacity building project in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The project will be carried out in close collaboration with local partners. It aims to contribute to peacebuilding and the strengthening of grassroots democratic governance. It is geared towards community […]