(1 January 2021) "Press Review: Mining in the South Pacific"
Vol. 12, No. 6, September - October 2020, 54 pages, available here
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Vortragshinweis:
"Bougainville: ein neuer Staat ist geboren. Geschichte, Konflikte, Perspektiven".
Jour Fixe des Freundeskreises des Weltkulturen Museums Frankfurt/Main, link
Auf unbekannte Zeit verschoben!
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News
Since 13 November 2020:
Power struggle for the post of prime minister in Papua New Guinea
16 December 2020: A sigh of relief, full story RNZ 17 Dec. 2020, link
Photo: National 17 Dec. 2020, link

Image: PNG National 11 Dec. 2020, link
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(17. Nov. 2020) Website der AG Tiefseebergbau ist online:
www.stoptiefseebergbau.de
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(2 Nov. 2020) Neues Positionspapier des AK Rohstoffe:
Krisenverschärfendes Handeln stoppen - Rohstoffwende umsetzen, link
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Walking into Nogoli, PNG Highlands
© James McIlraith/University of Otago
| New Report from ACT NOW!,
Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute:
Calls for a Dramatic Change from Extraction
to Inclusion for Real Development in
Papua New Guinea, Oct. 2020, link
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Ishmael
Toroama declared president-elect of Bougainville, PNG
RNZ 23 Sept. 2020, link
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(1 Sept 2020) new report: Intern. Cyber Policy Centre & Australian Strategic
Policy Institute: The Chinese Communist Party´s coercive diplomacy, link
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(17 August 2020) East Sepik people have rejected the Frieda River
copper/gold project according to Governor Allan Bird; link
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(6 August 2020) The Oxygen Project - STOP DEEP SEABED MINING!
Legendary eco-activists Jane Fonda and Sylvia
Earle, along with Phillipe Cousteau,
Julien Lennon, and other
conservationists star in this emotional video asking us
to help stop a
destructive new industry: Deep Seabed Mining; link
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(25 July 2020) Article by Franco Zocca from 2012 about Belden Namah,
currently Papua New Guinea´s opposition leader in the national parliament:
Life excursus of Mr Belden Namah, here
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(25 June 2020) New paper: Pacific Network on Globalization & Ozeanien-Dialog
Rough Seas: Looming Dangers of the Blue Economy, link
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New photo gallery New Zealand available here
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New Report Highlights Deep Sea Nodule Mining
Danger to Pacific Ocean and Island Nations
Deep Sea Mining Campaign, 20 May 2020, link
Image: WILLYAM
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Inside Indonesia's Secret War for West Papua
Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence
fighters and Indonesian security forces are involved in a protracted and bloody
battle over the issue of Papuan independence. ABC Foreign Correspondent
12 May 2020; link; Background:
The battle for West Papuan independence has intensified; Post-Courier link
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Arbeitskreis Rohstoffe:
12 Argumente für eine Rohstoffwende, 5. Mai 2020, link
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"Save the Sepik"
`Project Sepik´ calls for PNG Government to halt Frieda mining project
Frieda River heading north to join the Sepik River. Photo: Facebook - Sepik Capital, PNG -
Wewak Urban Local Level Government; RNZ 9 April 2020 link
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| Literaturtipp:
"Die zornige Stimme der
Internierten in Australien" (SZ)
"Woher komme ich? Aus dem Land der
Flüsse, dem Land der Wasserfälle, dem
Land der uralten Gesänge, dem Land der Berge. (...) Aus einem kleinen Dorf inmitten eines Kastanienwalds." (291)
Original title: "No Friend but the Mountains.
Writing from Manus Prison". Sydney 2018
zum Hintergrund: link
Rezension von Jan Bielicki,
Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 3. Feb. 2019, link
see also J.M. Coetzee, New York
Review of Books 26 Sept. 2019, link
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Death toll from Papua 2019 protest month put at 59, RNZ 6 March 2020, link
Protest march in Jayapura, West Papua against racism towards Papuans in Indonesia 19 Aug 2019
photo: RNZ 6 March 2020
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19 Feb 2020 new report by the London Mining Network:
Cut and run: How Britain´s top mining companies have
wrecked ecosystems without being held to account, link
Neue Studie der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik zur
Strategischen Rivalität zwischen USA und China, Feb. 2020, link
Documentary: Malaysian Logging Colonialism in Papua New Guinea
UK based Sarawak Report by journalist Clare Rewcastle-Brown, 7 Jan 2020, link
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Interview mit der Deutschen Welle:
Chinas "Umarmung" der Pazifikinseln beunruhigt Westen
Pekings verstärktes Engagement in der Südsee ist bislang nur wirtschaftlich.
Aber militärisch-strategische Absichten werden vermutet, Sicherheitspolitiker
in der Nachbarschaft sind alarmiert. Sogar Berlin hat reagiert.
2. Dezember 2019, link
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Bougainville referendum report gives historical perspective
Radio New Zealand/RNZ 12 June 2020, link
Final Bougainville referendum report presented to PNG
RNZ 5 June 2020, link
In photos: Bougainville chooses independence, as Papua New Guinea makes pitch.
RNZ 20 December 2019, link
The Bougainville Referendum Commission (BRC) returned the referendum writ
with the results to the Governor General at Government House in Port Moresby
RNZ 13 Dec 2019, Photo: Facebook/BRC
Bougainville voted yes to becoming the world´s newest nation. Now
begins the gold rush. ABC-PNG correspondent Natalie Whiting on 13
December 2019, link
11 December 2019: Bougainville - A new sovereign state is born
Bougainville flag flies high in Panguna Photo: RNZ Pacific 21 Nov 2019 Johnny Blades
A 97.7 percent majority has voted for independence in Bougainville´s historic
referendum. Over 85 percent of those enrolled having voted. Consultations with
the Papua New Guinea government will follow. The chairperson of the Bougainville
Referendum Commission, former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern, paid tribute to
the people for their enthusiastic and peaceful participation. The leader of the
Australian Observation Mission, Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne, said,
the referendum process was "free, fair and credible". link
People of Bougainville celebrating the outcome of the referendum in Buka on Wednesday,
Photo: The New York Times 11 Dec 2019, Courtesy of Serahphina Aupong/UN in PNG via AP
Bougainville people take their flag with them to vote for the referendum.
Photo: RNZ 7 Dec 2019, Johnny Blades
Photo essay: Bougainville´s historic independence referendum,
RNZ 6 Dec 2019 link
Bougainville referendum inspires hope, RNZ 28 Nov 2019 link
23 Nov - 7 Dec 2019 Polling period for the referendum on
Bougainville´s independence from Papua New Guinea
PNG leaders caution ahead of Bougainville vote, RNZ 22 Nov 2019, link
Bougainvilleans check the voter roll ahead of their region´s independence referendum;
Photo: RNZ 7 Nov 2019, Bougainville Referendum Commission
"Whatever we think about
whether independence for Bougainville is a good or bad
thing, the more
important principle is that we work to honour UN-ratified peace
agreements. If our region fails to do that, if the UN Security Council
fails to, we
will find it more difficult to reach peace agreements to
end future wars."
John Braithwaite and Miranda Forsyth, 28 Sept 2017, Blog
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Chinese-owned Ramu Nickel mine in PNG shut down after toxic slurry spill
Photo: RNZ 24 Oct. 2019 Facebook Elisha Wesley Mizeu; See ABC report 25 Oct 2019 link
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Akilisi Pohiva´s son wins by-election, RNZ 28 Nov 2019 link
Pacific leaders pay tribute to Akilisi Pohiva, link
12 Sept 2019, Akilisi Pohiva, the leading figure of Tonga´s pro-democracy
movement and twofold prime minister died today at the age of 78; RNZ link

photo: RNZ / Jamie Tahana
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Das moderne Weltsystem - Zum Tode von Immanuel Wallerstein.
Ein Nachruf. SZ vom 3. Sept. 2019, link
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PNG´s Resource Curse: Double or Nothing Revisited
Paul Flanagan, PNG Economics, 12 June 2019, link
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Demolition of historical courthouse in Samoa begins
Link: RNZ 19 May 2020

New Zealand, British, Australian and French servicemen raise the Union Jack
at the Apia courthouse in August 1914 Photo: nzhistory.govt.nz
117 year-old German colonial courthouse in Apia will be pulled down, Samoan PM
Photo: Roland Seib, 2011; RNZ report 8 June 2019 link
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New Papua New Guinea prime minister calls for unity
James Marape, left, being sworn in as prime minister of PNG by the
governor general Sir Robert Dadae, 30 May 2019. Photo:
PNG prime minister´s office media; link RNZ report
Marape promises to rebuild country in first address to PNG, link RNZ 6 June 2019
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and officials meet with Papua New Guinea´s Prime Minister
Peter O´Neill and
ministerial colleagues at the 2nd global Belt & Road Forum in Beijing,
25 April 2019; Photo: Xinhua/Yan Yan
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On the death of Bill Standish, Australian National University, Canberra
Dr Bill Standish, 14.6.1944 - 31.3.2019, remembered as a fearless commentator
and expert analyst of PNG politics. An excellent colleague. During my PhD
research in 1988, I shared a room with Bill at the ANU for three months.
Link: Liam Fox on Pacific Beat, 15 April 2019
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Video Tipp: Lost in Dhaka, March 2019 link
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New study by Jubilee Australia, 14 June 2019, link:
The Frieda River Mine and the Threat to the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea

for more information link: Save the Sepik river and its people
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Auswahl jüngster Veröffentlichungen

| Neue Publikation vom Dez. 2020, link
Artikel: „Goldrausch in der Tiefsee –
was ist dran?“, hier
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Rezension: Nicole Haley and Kerry Zubrinich:
2017 Papua New Guinea General Elections. Election Observation Report.
Asien 2020, hier
Review: Siobhan McDonnell, Matthew Allen and Colin Filer (eds.):
Kastom, Property and Ideology. Land Transformations in Melanesia.
Catalyst 2019, available here
Rezensionen: Anthony Regan: The Bougainville Referendum. Law, Administration
and Politics sowie Ben Bohane: The Bougainville referendum and beyond.
Online-Publikation 22. Nov. 2019, 5 Seiten, verfügbar hier

Photo: Roland Seib
„Zeitenwende im Pazifik: Der Aufstieg Chinas“. Blickwechsel
für das China-Programm der Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln 1. August 2019, 9 Seiten, link

Map: Mercator Institute for China Studies, deutsche Karte, Map in english
„Zeitenwende im Pazifik: Der Aufstieg Chinas und das Projekt Neue
Seidenstraße“. Online Publikation, 29. April 2019, 12 Seiten, verfügbar hier

Chinese President Xi Jinping hosts a
collective meeting with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill
and Pacific leaders from Niue, Cook Islands, Samoa, Federated States of
Micronesia, Vanuatu, Tonga and Fiji before the APEC summit in Port
Moresby, 16 November 2018 (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)

Armed clan near Komo, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea.
Photo: Michael Main, The Monthly, May 2018
„Das Goldene Zeitalter der Gasförderung? Der Ressourcenfluch
und die Folgen in Papua-Neuguinea“. Ozeanien-Dialog, Hamburg, März 2019, link

Photo: Christina Hill
| Rezension: Jubilee Australia:
Christina Hill and Luke Fletcher (eds):
Growing Bougainville´s
Future: Choices for an Island and its peoples. 17. Januar 2019, hier
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| Kommentar zur Studie von
Fair Oceans und Brot für die Welt:
Solwara 1: Bergbau am Meeresboden vor
Papua-Neuguinea. Hintergründe, Folgen, Widerstand. 12. Oktober 2018. hier
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| Rezension: Jubilee Australia 2018: Double or nothing. The broken
economic promises of PNG LNG
und On shaky ground. PNG LNG and
the consequences of development
failure, 6. September 2018, hier
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Rezension: Sean Dorney: The Embarrassed Colonialist. 11. Juni 2018, hier

Vortrag Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln, 26. Februar 2018, 34 Folien hier
Pressespiegel "Tiefseebergbau in den internationalen Medien 2015 - 2017".
Zusammenstellung für die Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln, online seit 19.1.2018, link
Rezension: Jack Corbett: Being
Political. Leadership and Democracy
in the Pacific Islands. Asien 2017, hier
The Observation Report of Transparency International Papua New Guinea
"makes it clear that the 2017 elections were flawed to an unforgivable
extent. We as a nation have allowed far too many of our people to be
robbed of a basic right: the right to influence the result of an
election." (p. iii) 10 November 2017, link

Vortrag Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt/M., 17. Oktober 2017, 29 Folien hier
"Wettlauf um die Meeresschätze im Pazifik: Fakten und Thesen zum
Tiefseebergbau". Vortrag Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt/M.,
4. Juni 2017, 36 Folien hier
Rezension: Julius Chan: Playing the Game. Life and Politics in Papua New Guinea, St. Lucia 2016; März 2017, hier
Rezension: Klaus Neumann: Across the Seas. Australia´s Response to Refugees.
A History. Collingwood/Victoria 2015. Anthropos 111.2016, hier

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"Das Paradox vom Wohlstand ohne
Entwicklung: Papua-Neuguinea und
der Bergbau". Blickwechsel
der Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln,
September 2016, link
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Rezension: Kristian Lasslett: State Crime on the Margins of Empire.
Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining. März 2016, hier
Plundering Nature? Deep Sea Mining - An Incalculable Risk.
Powerpoint Presentation für die Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln 3.3.2016, deutsche Fassung:
Raubbau in den letzten Nischen: Tiefseebergbau - ein unkalkulierbares Risiko, link
Rezension: Stuart Kirsch: Mining Capitalism.
The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics, April 2015, 4 S., hier
Rezension: Nick Schwarz (ed.): The Politics of Give and Take.
The 2012 Papua New Guinea National Election. Anthropos, 2014, link
Fact Sheet im Rahmen des Projektes "Rohstoffreichtum in Asien: Hemmnis oder
Chance für nachhaltige Entwicklung?" der Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln 4.3.2015:
link, Print: link
Review: Thomas Webster and Linda Duncan (eds.):
Papua New Guinea´s Development Performance 1975 - 2008.
CATALYST, 2014, available here
Review: Peter Larmour: Interpreting Corruption.
Culture and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Anthropos, 109.2014.1

44. Pacific Islands Forum summit, Majuro, Marshall Islands, Photo: Pacific.Scoop Sept. 5, 2013
"Der Drache im »Hinterhof«: Umbrüche und Konflikte im Südpazifik".
Wissenschaft und Frieden, Nr. 4, November 2013.
Rezension:
Kathy Marks: Lost Paradise. From Mutiny on the Bounty to a
Modern-Day
Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island
Revealed. Rundbrief, Nr. 91, März 2013.
Rezension: Anthony Regan: Light Intervention. Lessons from Bougainville.
Rundbrief, Nr. 87, Februar 2012.
Review: Arthur Knoll & Hermann Hiery (eds.): The German
Colonial
Experience. Select Documents on German Rule in Africa, China,
and the Pacific
1884 – 1914. Anthropos, 106.2011.2
Rezension: Franco Zocca (ed.): Sanguma in Paradise:
Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea. PAIDEUMA, 2010, hier

Porgera Gold Mine 2007 Photo: Richard Farbelini, Wikipedia Commons
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„Schmutziges
Gold.
In
den Bergwerken von
Papua-Neuguinea
bleiben die Menschenrechte auf der Strecke“. Welt-sichten, Nr. 5, Mai 2010.
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„Bulletin“
der Deutsch-Pazifischen Gesellschaft e.V.,
München, Nr. G-220, März 2010.
Rezension: Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland (Hrsg.):
Wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte in West-Papua. Soziale Realität und
politische Perspektiven. Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte, 2009, hier

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published in 2009, 38 pages, link
die deutsche Version, link
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veröffentlicht in 2009
Verlagsinformationen hier
Zusammenfassung: "Staats- und Ver-
waltungsreform in Räumen begrenzter
Staatlichkeit: der Fall Papua-Neuguinea”.
Nov. 2008, 33 Seiten, verfügbar hier
Summary: "State-Building and Public
Sector Reform in Fragile States:
the Case of Papua New Guinea",
2012, 19 pages, here
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"Kriminalität in Papua-Neuguinea. Eine Annäherung an gesellschaftliche
Verhältnisse". journal-ethnologie. de Nr. 6/2007 link
"Plundering the Nation´s Wealth? Mining and Development in Papua New Guinea"
July 2005, 22 pages, here
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Melanesian Institute, Goroka 2000
Book cover: Parliament of Papua New Guinea
Institut für Asienkunde, Hamburg 1994
Deutsches Übersee-Institut, Hamburg 1990
Book cover:
Carved wooden mask of a
mythical ancestor with a pig between the
teeth
of the northeast coast of New Guinea; possession of the Hamburg Museum
für Völkerkunde.
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