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Centre for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies, Asia Pacific is based at the Australian National University. Its website provides information about the aims of the center and its ongoing research projects. It includes free access to press releases, conference announcements and some full-text working papers and research reports. Topics of interest include regional security, human security, ethnic conflict and reconciliation in nations of the South Pacific and Asia. Countries covered include: East Timor, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Melanesia.
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/conflict/index.php
Keywords: Civil and political rights, Conflict resolution, Conflicts. Terrorism, East Timor, Ethnic conflict, Human rights, Indonesia, Melanesia, New Guinea, Oceania, Papua, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Southeast Asia,

In countries with weak governance such as the Solomon Islands, logging has numerous negative externalities. These include illegal and uncontrolled exploitation of the resource, smuggling, misclassification, transfer pricing, and corruption at different levels and scale. The consequences of these activities include environmental degradation, diminished livelihoods, loss of state revenues, an erosion of democratic principles, and a direct contribution to conflict. Many of these factors are present in the Solomon Islands.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/downloads/FP2P/FP2P_Solomon_Islands_Forestry_C...
Keywords: Agriculture, Forestry, Melanesia, Oceania, Solomon Islands,