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Solomon Islands was caught off guard when Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic. Most of its initial efforts were to ensure that the deadly virus did not venture beyond its borders into the community. As a result, it has only recorded 18 border cases to date (8 February 2021). In Solomon Islands, the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was mitigated by two main sources: the community and the state. People's survival and livelihood were primarily supported by a set of relational networks made possible by customary land tenure and social capital at the local level, known as the wantok system. In addition, a plan called the Economic Stimulus Package was at the core of the government's formal social policy response.

In 2012, the Solomon Islands truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) submitted its Final Report to the Solomon Islands Government. The Report detailed the underlying and proximate causes of the conflict, provided a record of the injustices perpetrated during its course, and presented a set of recommendations designed both to address the underlying sources of tension in Solomon Islands society and to guard against future hostilities. In the time that has since elapsed, however, successive Solomon Islands Governments have failed to uphold their obligations to publish the report and implement its recommendations. This article examines the reasons for this implementation gap and considers its ingoing ramifications for transitional justice and reconciliation in the Solomon Islands. It argues that the implementation gap can be attributed to a fundamental lack of political will, provoked by the TRC's decision to 'name names,' combined with the extremely limited economic capacity of the state. What is more, it also demonstrates that the failure to implement key recommendations has meant that the underlying causes of the conflict remain without adequate redress and that the legitimacy of the TRC and the Solomon Islands' broader reconciliation process has been brought into serious question. (Pac Rev/GIGA)

Contains: outlines of recent political, economic and social developments; a statistical profile of the country; an interview with Ambassador Peter Tsiamalili, Secretary for Foreign Affairs "Positive about the Bougainville peace process"; a separate article "Bougainville - a new spirit and a new deal?"; an interview with opposition leader Bernard Narokobi "The people tolerate much more than they should from their leaders"; an article on art and artefacts; a table "Papua New Guinea - EU cooperation 1990-2000" etc. (DÜI-Cwk)

... sollte von einer bewußt langsam wachsenden Zahl deutscher Neusiedler - Vertretern möglichst verschiedener Berufsgruppen - zunächst noch ausschließlich Tauschhandel getrieben werden, damit die Insulaner sich dank einer so angebotenen Vielfalt von Kontakten ihre Partner selber aussuchen und das Tempo ihrer 'Zivilisierung' in Grenzen mitbestimmen konnten ...Auf seinen frühen Handelsfahrten durch die Südsee und in Auseinandersetzung mit seinem mächtigen politischen Gegner, dem Berliner Bankier Adolph von Hansemann, entwarf der Kaufmann Eduard Hernsheim ein alternatives Kolonialprogramm für die Südsee. Im Mittelpunkt von Hernsheims Vision standen eine Begegnung mit den Inselbewohnern auf Augenhöhe und eine schonende Modernisierung ihrer Lebenswelt. Jakob Anderhandt wurde 1967 in Bonn geboren und lebt als freier Schriftsteller im Großraum Sydney (Australien). Während seiner ersten Weltreise als Überarbeiter auf einem Frachtschiff der Hamburg Südamerikanischen Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft passierte er auch mehrere Südsee-Inseln. Anderhandts Biographie über den Südseekaufmann Eduard Hernsheim fand in allen einschlägigen Fachzeitschriften positive Resonanz und gilt als Standardwerk.Die Südsee-Bibliothek erzählt wissenschaftlich fundiert vom deutschen Einfluss in Ozeanien ab etwa 1850. Historisch interessierten Lesern bietet sie einen lebendigen Einstieg in das Thema, Akademikern eine solide Material- und Arbeitsgrundlage. Wichtigster Grundsatz der Schriftenreihe ist ihre Treue zu den Quellen

Introduction: Making culture count / Lachlan MacDowall -- Part I Qualifying and quantifying cultural value: critical accounts of the history and politics of cultural measurement -- Introduction / Emma Blomkamp -- A critical history of cultural indicators / Emma Blomkamp -- Culture, value and commensuration: the knowledge politics of indicators / Guy Redden -- The politics of cultural statistics: from legitimisation to critique (france 1960-1990) / Vincent Dubois -- Growth and depression in Hayek's garden: the emotional language of accounting / Harriet Parsons -- Assessing the cultural impact of economics / Justin O'Connor -- The social life of cultural value / Dave O'Brien and Pat Lockley -- Part II. Making culture count in political contexts and discourses -- Introduction / Kim Dunphy -- Cultural measurement in international development: the need for capacity building in cultural statistics / José Pessoa -- Creative accounts: reimagining culture and wellbeing by tapping into the global movement to redefine progress / Geoff Woolcock and Melanie Davern -- Making it real: measures of culture in local sustainability planning and implementation / Nancy Duxbury and Sharon Jeannotte -- Alternative indicators of well-being for Melanesia: cultural values driving public policy / Jamie Tanguay -- Heritage as a cultural measure in a postcolonial setting / José Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona -- Part III. Critical and creative approaches to cultural measurement practice -- Introduction / Marnie Badham -- Democratising cultural indicators: developing a shared sense of progress / Marnie Badham -- The metrics syndrome: cultural scientism and its discontents / Arlene Goldbard -- Accounting for art in international development: insights from artists' initiatives in Central America / Polly Stupples -- A holistic framework of evaluation for arts engagement / Kim Dunphy -- New approaches to cultural measurement: on cultural value, cultural participation and cultural diversity / Audrey Yue and Rimi Khan -- Cultural measurement on whose terms? Critical friends as an experiment in participant-led evaluation / Sophie Hope