The Bougainville Crisis, 1991 update

The crisis in Bougainville has become the most serious issue in the affairs of the western Pacific. Separatist sentiment has always been significant, fuelled by perceived ethnic traits distinguishing Bougainvilleans from other Papua New Guineans, exacerbated by neglect of the region during most of the colonial period (until the development of the mining complex in the 1960s), and promoted by the remoteness of the islands from the rest of Papua New Guinea. Secession was the greatest problem addressed by the independent state of Papua New Guinea in 1 975. The resolution - autonomy for the North Solomons Province - seemed to work until the late 1 980s when younger and more militant people began to represent the landowners in negotiations with the mining company, the provincial government, and the national government. The crisis has Australian dimensions : the Commonwealth government cannot be neutral since it provides a declining but still significant proportion of Papua New Guinea's revenue and logistic support for the Papua New Guinea Defence Force; the closure of the mine and Papua New Guinea's resulting fiscal difficulties will intensify Papua New Guinea's financial dependence. Also, many of the relevant aid agencies are based in Australia or organize their efforts here. It is critically important therefore that Australians'be accurately informed of events and conditions in Bougainville. Media coverage is at best uneven. The blockade of the island has made information scarce, erratic and unreliable; inevitably, information is carried by individuals and organizations who are emotionally involved in one way or another. Oarity is also obscured by the fact that different policies are pursued by competing sections of the Papua New Guinea cabinet, and different stances have been adopted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army, the Interim Government, and an increasing number of smaller organizations in Bougainville. It is this dearth of accurate information which provoked us to organize a second Bougainville Update Conference. It is our fervent hope that the next conference will be the last, and that it will be able to analyse a successful and peaceful resolution

J.M.G. Le Clézio et Édouard Glissant: pour une poétique de la trace

En utilisant les textes que J.M.G Le Clézio et Edouard Glissant ont écrits pour la collection Peuples de l’eau aux éditions du Seuil, cet article analyse la façon dont les deux auteurs repensent la notion d’interculturalité à partir du concept de trace. Ces traces ce sont tout d’abord les signes et les voix qu’ils découvrent lors de leur découverte des îles de la Pentecôte et de Pacques, îlots isolées dans l’immensité de l’océan Pacifique. Suivre ces traces devient pour eux une manière de mettre en avant la dette de l’Occident envers la mémoire de ces peuples mais aussi une invitation à l’imaginaire et au récit pour restaurer un sens caché et perdu. En somme, il s’agira de voir comment une poétique de la trace leur permet de repenser notre rapport aux autres tout en suivant ce que Glissant appelle ‘L’imaginaire des peuples'

L' Anti-Lucrèce : poëme sur la religion naturelle

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Voyage Autour Du Monde, Par La Frégate Du Roi La Boudeuse, Et La Flûte L'Étoile : En 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769

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