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    Truth Commissions are Political Too
    Winston, C (Australian Institute of International Affairs, 2022)
    Truth Commissions have been celebrated as tools for remedying injustice. But behind the scenes, almost every detail has been determined by a rigorous political process, often hindering their true potential.
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    The IAEA's Organizational Culture: Myths and Realities
    FINDLAY, T (RJISSF, 2016)
    in his classic work Organizational Culture and Leadership, Edgar Schein, the guru of organizational culture studies, identifies three levels of culture, “from the very tangible overt manifestations that one can see and feel to the deeply embedded, unconscious, basic assumptions.”1 He designates these as artifacts, espoused values, and underlying assumptions. Artifacts are an organization’s visible structure, processes, and symbols. Espoused values are those that an organization publicly proclaims. Underlying assumptions are those unlikely to be articulated publicly, but taken for granted as ‘the way we do things around here.
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    The UK’s “stop the boats” policy shows a failure to learn from Australia’s mistakes
    Tubakovic, T ; Murray, P ; Matera, M (London School of Economics and Political Sciences, 2023)
    The UK government has unveiled its latest policy to tackle “small boat” crossings – one of five key priorities of the Sunak government. Yet the solutions proposed are nothing new, as they seek to emulate what has long been Australian policy towards asylum seekers. Far from being a simple and effective transferable solution, Tamara Tubakovic, Philomena Murray and Margherita Matera explain why such a policy solution is ill-suited to the UK context and therefore unlikely to succeed.
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    Recordings and texts from Ranongga, Solomon Islands
    McDougall, D ; Zobule, A (Endangered Languages Archive, 2021)
    This deposit includes three distinct collections of materials. 1) Audio recordings of traditional stories made in 1986 and 1992 by Kenneth Roga and Laurence Stubbs. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, an Oral Histories Program was based within the Cultural Affairs Office of Western Province, in the provincial capital of Gizo. The initiative was supported by Canadian University Services Overseas technical advisors. As part of this program, archeologist Kenneth Roga of Ranongga recorded 11 cassettes in 1986. Self-taught researcher Laurence Stubbs of Australia recorded 20 cassettes in 1992. All are approximately 60 minutes. In both sets of recordings, speakers were elderly and all are now deceased. Content of the recordings are songs, descriptions of obsolete social practices and technologies, myths, and humorous stories. Original cassettes have been lost. Copies were dubbed in 1999 in the Gizo studios of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Association by McDougall. 2) Audio-visual recordings made between 1998-2001 by Debra McDougall as part of extended anthropological fieldwork. This collection is 100 audio cassettes (60 minute each) and five shorter video cassettes. Some material has been described in publications (McDougall 2016). Fifteen of these cassettes have been digitised, but not at high quality. The recordings include interviews, life histories, histories of travel and settlement, traditional myths, music, church services, and speeches given at weddings, funerals, dispute settlement hearings, meetings with non-governmental organisations and a wide range of other contexts. Fieldwork was carried out with both Kubokota and Luqa speakers and both languages are represented in the collection. Some speakers also use Solomon Islands Pijin. 3) Texts written since 2000 by students of vernacular literacy and grammar. Beginning in 1998, Alpheaus Zobule has worked with Ranonggan collaborators to develop materials for reading, writing, and analysing the structure of Luqa language. Since 2000, each student who has completed a workshop on reading Luqa or Kubokota has been required to write a story in those languages. Some of these stories have been typed and incorporated into textbooks used in the Kulu Language Institute school. Approximately thousand handwritten texts, however, have not been typed or scanned. Group represented Luqa is spoken by approximately 3,900 people in the southern half of the island and Kubokota is spoken by approximately 3,400 people in the northern half of the island. There is frequent intermarriage and interaction between Luqa and Kubokota people, and all residents of Ranongga understand both languages. Normally, though, they speak only one or the other. Both Kubokota and Luqa are changing rapidly as speakers use the language of wider communication (Solomon Islands Pijin) and the national language (English) in an increasingly wide range of contexts. Most Ranonggan children today grow up speaking Luqa or Kubokota, but Solomon Islands Pijin is the first language of young people who have spent their childhood outside of Ranongga. Speakers of both languages are concerned with the extensive linguistic mixing, and they worry that older modes of expression are being forgotten. Ranongga is home to a remarkable vernacular language movement known as the Kulu Language Institute. This movement began in 1998 when Alpheaus Zobule and his team of translators realised that few Luqa people were able to read the Luqa translation of the Gospel of Mark that they had produced. Over twenty years, small workshops focused on vernacular literacy developed into a well-established campus built on donated land that regularly runs intensive courses in grammar. Over the life of the movement, we estimate that 15-20% of the entire population of Ranongga have attended at least one workshop on Luqa or Kubokota language. Increasing numbers of youth are attending these courses because they see how it helps them in formal schooling. The Kulu Language Institution is remarkable not only for the numbers of participants it has attracted, but also for the nature of the materials: 8 volumes of monolingual description and analysis of Luqa and Kubokota languages. Language information Luqa and Kubokota are two closely related Austronesian language of the North West Solomonic branch of Western Oceanic. Both are on Ranongga, a narrow mountainous island at the western edge of the New Georgia Group in Western Province of Solomon Islands. These language names are also territory names: Luqa is the southern half of Ranongga Island, Kubokota is the northeastern quarter, and Ganoqa is the northwestern quarter. In the nineteenth century, European mispronunciations of Ganoqa came to be used as the name of the island as a whole; It is not clear whether or not Ganoqa was ever a distinct language. Today, regional variation across Kubokota and Ganoqa territories reflect different church affiliation: the Methodist Mission, now United Church, was established in Luqa and Kubokota territory; the Seventh-day Adventist Church was first established in Ganoqa territory. The New Testament was translated into Luqa in 2002. Other publications include three short books of custom stories (Roga 1989, Stubbs 1989, Stubbs 1991) in Kubokota language based on recordings made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which are part of this collection. Kubokota has been the subject of previous linguistic study (Chambers 2009a, 2009b, Kettle 20000).
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    Was Donald Trump on the money about China?
    Lynch, T (Jakarta Post Publishing, 2022)
    As US president, Donald Trump rewrote the rule book for dealing with China, breaking norms enshrined in bilateral relations since the days of Richard Nixon. Yet even Trump’s harshest critics have since warmed to his assertive, unconventional approach to Beijing, and there’s now recognition that there is no return to the China policy of old. But was this radical reshaping really down to Trump, or was it somehow inevitable given China's inexorable rise as an economic and military power? Professor of American Politics Timothy Lynch examines Trump’s China legacy with presenter Ali Moore. A podcast from Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne.
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    The prospects of great power war in the Indo-Pacific
    Lynch, TJ (Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, 2022)
    The war in Ukraine invites us to consider the prospects for conflict in Australia’s region. International relations experts Diane Hu, Tim Lynch, Robert Ross, and Michael Wesley will debate what war might look like, how far a Beijing-Moscow axis is forming, the capacity of democracies to resist aggression, and whether our regional order is being rewritten. This discussion also launches a special edition of the Melbourne Asia Review dedicated to the prospects for war and peace in the Indo-Pacific. Co-contributing editors: Tim Lynch and Robert Ross.
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    Is China a threat not because it is strong but because it is weak?
    Lynch, T (Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, 2022)
    The rise of China is central to the international relations of the Indo-Pacific. But what if that rise has been overstated? This article tests the argument that China’s weaknesses pose a greater threat to regional stability than its strengths. Using four levels of analysis – geography, ideology, economics, and diplomacy – the article assesses how far the PRC’s disadvantages at each have made its behaviour more erratic and thus more prone to conflict. The article concludes by considering the foreign policy implications of this finding for states dealing with China.
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    Our (De) Colonial Stories: Letters Between a Lepcha Geographer and a Naga Anthropologist
    Kikon, D ; Gergan, MD (RAIOT: Challenging the Consensus, 2021-06-02)
    Letter between a Lepcha Geographer and a Naga Anthropologist An essay about decolonization and indigenous pedagogy.
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    The Logistics of Advocacy
    Kikon, D (https://www.fieldguidetologistics.com/post/logistics-of-advocacy, 2021-04-22)
    The 2020 drastic lockdowns in India resulted in the closure of schools. In Nagaland, the logistics of mobilizing care and protection for vulnerable children from violent homes became a rallying point for frontline community workers and grassroots advocacy groups. The image represents how existing inequalities and gender violence exacerbated globally. The sharp increase in gender-based violence witnessed a flow of battered partners and children in rehabilitation homes. New networks of community workers and legal teams emerged to provide support structures. Shifting between the police station, legal office, and the rehabilitation homes, children from violent homes were unable to attend online classes due to the prevailing situation, and also for the lack of logistical support like mobile phones, data services and computers. Consequently, rates of dropout increased during the pandemic. Completed in October 2020, the artwork titled “Police man came dad in jail”, is sketched by a 7 year old child living in a rehabilitation home in Dimapur (Nagaland). The image is a manifestation of the personal nightmares of a small child. Yet, it was also emblematic of the larger tragedies experienced by millions of vulnerable and precarious migrants forced to undertake a long march back home from jobs, workplaces that disappeared overnight in India. The above image is part of a photo/video exhibition titled, “During the Pandemic” that showcases the logistics of advocacy to gender violence during the pandemic. (http://www.dollykikon.com/engagements/during-the-pandemic)