Open AccessREVIEW: Anzac rivalries undermine Bougainville peacekeeping
Author(s) -
Michael Field
Publication year - 2002
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.v8i1.745
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , death toll , spanish civil war , political science , toll , peacekeeping , history , economic history , media studies , law , sociology , demography , medicine , immunology
Review of Without a Gun: Australians' Experience Monitoring Peace in Bougainville, 1997-2001, edited by Monica Wehner and Donald Denoon. Pandanus books, Australian National University.
Without a Gun tells of the peace-keeping operations in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville, scene of a bitter civil war between 1988-1997. Some estimates out the death toll at between 15,000 and 20,00 and while the book, published by the Australian National Unversity (ANU), tends to downplay the size, it says the impact of the conflict was incalculable.