Important New Collection of Papuan Papers Announced from University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre (RSC)>

This RSC working paper presents a collection of papers developed in preparation for a one-day workshop held under the auspices of the Refugee Studies Centre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford on 26 October 2006. This was the fourth in a series of RSC workshops to focus on conflict, violence and displacement in Southeast Asia organized at Oxford by Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman. Like previous such workshops, which examined issues of conflict and displacements in Aceh under martial law, southern Philippines and south Thailand, and Burma, the day of analysis devoted to Papua brought together perspectives and expertise from a range of institutional contexts, including academic and advocacy, practitioner and policy.

The collections includes:

"Papua: the last frontier for democratization, demilitarization and decentralization in Indonesia" by Eva-Lotta E. Hedman

"Papuan and Indonesian nationalisms: Can they be reconciled?" by Jacques Bertrand

"Refuge, displacement and dispossession: responses to Indonesian rule and conflict in Papua" by Richard Chauvel

"Representations of violence, conflict, and displacement in West Papua" by Stuart Kirsch

"West Papua: the flawed integration into Indonesia" by Liem Soei Liong

The papers' pdf can be found in the RSC website; the direct link is:

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCworkingpaper42.pdf

The collection is also hosted at Forced Migration Online:

http://repository.forcedmigration.org/show_metadata.jsp?pid=fmo:5054