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A Marriage of Custom and Introduced Skills: Restorative Justice Bougainville Style

Tombot, John
June 4, 2015

Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 255-264.

Tombot reports on the conflict resolution work in Bougainville. He describes the Bougainville crisis, his own introduction to mediation, and the customary and formal dispute resolution systems. He then outlines the mediation process that is being used.

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