The University of Queensland

The Underdevelopment of Malaita Province and its Relevance to the Current Crisis in the Solomon Islands (2005–2007)

Abstract:

This project assesses the causes of the recent crisis in Solomon Islands when rebels from Malaita Province overthrew the central government. On the basis of a longitudinal study of the province from 1893 centring on resource control law and order leadership forms of governance civil society and concepts of the nation nationalism and sub-nationalism it will test the hypothesis that the underdevelopment of the province relative to other areas rather than ethnic tensions and contemporary issues was responsible for the crisis

Grant type:

ARC Discovery Projects

Researchers:

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  Emeritus Professor Clive Moore

  Emeritus Professor
  

  School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

  Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Funded by:

Australian Research Council