Have we failed our neighbour?

Morgan, Michael C.; McLeod, Abby

doi:10.1080/10357710600865671

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“…As a state-building operation, RAMSI has encountered more resistance, including criticism of its overly intrusive structure, the cultural insensitivity of its personnel, the overwhelming control of its lead sponsor Australia, and its failure to deliver more substantive economic benefits to the majority of Solomon Islanders (Dinnen and Firth 2008;Morgan and McLeod 2006). Nevertheless, when compared with the record of international statebuilding interventions, RAMSI's success is more evident.…”

Section: Conclusion: Lessons From Ramsimentioning

confidence: 89%

Aid for education in post-conflict Solomon Islands

Whalan

2011

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Between 1998 and 2003, conflict, violent crime, and a severe economic downturn pushed the Solomon Islands state to the brink of failure, exacerbating the problems of an already struggling education sector. Most schools on Guadalcanal were seriously disrupted; some were burned down or vandalized, others closed as teachers and students fled violence, and those that remained open struggled to accommodate the large displaced student population. The collapse of state finances stripped any remaining funding from the education sector; teachers were paid irregularly, if at all, while many schools lacked basic teaching materials and proper sanitation. In 2003, intervention by the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) quickly restored security and stabilized government finances. RAMSI provided significant budget support to the education sector and opened the door for donors to reengage. Schools re-opened, new facilities were built, and teachers were paid, allowing the government and donors to focus on longerterm issues, including school fees. Government expenditure on education is high, but financed almost entirely by donors. Solomon Islands is now one of the world's most aiddependent countries and remains vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters. Weak economic forecasts suggest the need for additional external budget support to protect social spending, including on education.

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Section: Conclusion: Lessons From Ramsimentioning

confidence: 89%

Aid for education in post-conflict Solomon Islands

Whalan

2011

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“…However, RAMSI has promoted a neo-liberal style of the state that privileges the market as the most legitimate creator of employment and growth (Hameiri 2009), and this may be inadequate in dealing with the drivers of violence discussed above. In fact, in neglecting and subverting local forms of legitimacy and power, RAMSI and the foreign investment that it encourages are suspect (McDougall 2007;Morgan and McLeod 2006), and may, in fact, encourage drivers of further violence. For example, RAMSI has sponsored economic reforms that shifted the emphasis from the public to the private sector (McKibbin 2009;Metz 2006).…”

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Continuing drivers of violence in Honiara: making friends and influencing people

Droogan¹,

Waldek²

2015

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) has provided a relative decline of violence in Honiara for over a decade. However, the combination of customary cultural practices utilised in negotiating status and power in Solomon Islands society with ongoing demographic and economic processes exacerbated by the period of foreign intervention has perpetuated underlying drivers of violence that are likely to reignite once RAMSI fully departs. The use of practices of social reciprocity and compensation in order to gain and effectively wield key resources such as cash, access to jobs and access to land is ongoing in Honiara, where new opportunities provide new pathways to utilising these practices by growing cohorts of youth. This article examines the use of these forms of negotiation in Honiara and argues that three ongoing processes are likely to drive future outbreaks of violence in the capital once RAMSI departs: a rapidly expanding urba; ongoing contestation over access to land; and the effects of international investment and presence of urban foreign enclaves.

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“…Much of it is concerned, primarily, with the state-building process and its problems, and does not directly engage with the themes discussed here (see, for example, Dinnen 2008a; Dinnen and Firth 2008;Moore 2007b;Morgan and McLeod 2006;Wainwright 2006). A number of scholars analyse the Solomon Islands crisis, intervention and state-building 'package' predominantly from the local perspective, rather than from Australia's (see Dinnen 2008b;Dinnen and Firth 2008;Fraenkel 2004;Moore 2004Moore , 2007aMoore , 2008aMoore , 2008bNanau 2008).…”

Section: The Literature On Ramsimentioning

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Reputation and responsibility in Australia's 2003 intervention in the Solomon Islands

Halvorson¹

2013

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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Have we failed our neighbour?

Cited by 46 publications

References 10 publications

Aid for education in post-conflict Solomon Islands

Aid for education in post-conflict Solomon Islands

Continuing drivers of violence in Honiara: making friends and influencing people

Reputation and responsibility in Australia's 2003 intervention in the Solomon Islands

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