Strategic ways of re-solving ethnic tension as an intra-state conflict:"The Case of Solomon Islands Ethnic Tension"

• Main Author: John Junior Kemakeza
• Other Authors: Dr. Li-kai HSIAO
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33948862653252988635

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 國際事務研究所碩士班 === 101 === Internal conflict or sometimes known as intra-state conflict, has become the predominant threat to the security and stability of many of the small island nations of the Southwest Pacific and particularly in the countries of Melanesia. Since the late 1980s, conflicts of varying causes and degrees of intensity have occurred in Papua New Guinea (Bougainville secession attempt), Fiji (coups and attempted coups), Vanuatu (police rebellion) and Solomon Islands (ethnic conflict and coup).These conflicts have seriously debilitated the already fragile national economies and polities of all these countries. As such, this report will focus its analysis particularly on the ethnic tension as the intra-state conflict in the Solomon Islands. In this context a host of questions arises as to how best to resolve, contain, manage and/or transform this Ethnic Tension as an intra-state conflict in the interest of the security, stability and well being of the peoples of Solomon Islands. The analysis will mainly base on the causes of such Ethnic Tension and from those causes; possible strategic approach of how best to solve such ethnic tension will then be derived. This research is purely based on multiple qualitative method of gathering information but mainly on historical approach. Previous studies done on General Ethnic Tension as an intra-state conflict will be the basis of this research paper, but will be done particularly in the context of how Solomon Islands experienced its Ethnic Tension.