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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Bougainville Referendum Dialogues Final Report 2018
PaCSIA has published the final report for the Bougainville Referendum Dialogues. The Bougainville Referendum Dialogues Final Report 2018 provides a summary of the project years 2017-2018. During this time the Bougainville Referendum Dialogues (BRD) have reached over 29,000 Bougainvilleans and have significantly contributed to informing the population about the upcoming referendum on Bougainville’s future political status. […]
Melanesian Peace Dialogue Network Experience Sharing Workshop 2018
In August 2018 PaCSIA invited the four local partner organisations of the Melanesian Peace Dialogue Network (MPDN) to a three-day experience sharing workshop in Buka, Bougainville. Nasioi Peacebuilding Association (NPA) and Bougainville Indigenous Dialogue (BID) participated with 7 members each, Prison Fellowship Solomon Islands (PFSI) and Further Arts (FA) from Vanuatu sent 2 representatives each. […]
Bougainville Referendum Dialogues Annual Report 2017
It is with great pleasure that we publish the 2017 Annual Report of the Bougainville Referendum Dialogues in partnership with the Autonomous Bougainville Government’s Department of Peace Agreement Implementation. During the first project year the Bougainville Referendum Dialogues have reached over 10000 Bougainvilleans and have significantly contributed to informing the population about the upcoming referendum […]