Open AccessInsights into traditional Pacific warfare ‘rules’
Author(s) -
David Robie
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v16i1.1019
Subject(s) - mutiny , new guinea , project commissioning , publishing , spanish civil war , human rights , law , political science , ethnic group , modern warfare , history , ethnology
The decade-long civil war in Bougainville, sporadic warfare in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, ethnic conflict in the Solomon Islands, and human rights violations during four coups and deaths in custody in the wake of a military barracks mutiny have demonstrated the need for a wider Pacific understanding of international humanitarian law (IHL).