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Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as traditional or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis, conflict or governmental programmes and regimes, this book aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration

The Emerging Cultural Turn in Peace Research 1. - Decentralization, Revitalization, and Reconciliation in Indonesia 39. - Conflict and Peacebuilding in Maluku 69. - Reconciliation and the Revival of Tradition 101. - The Reinvention of Traditional Leadership 121. - Indigenous People, Migrants, and Refugees: A Clash of Individual and Cultural Human Rights 147. - Concluding Reflections: Toward a New Anthropology of Peace 179

Promoting an interdisciplinary examination of Indonesia, this volume goes beyond a mere political and legal approach to reconciliation. It offers new understandings of bottom-up reconciliation approaches and the cultural dimension of reconciliation.

Konfliktakteure setzen weltweit das Internet in zunehmendem Maße strategisch ein. Lokal ausgetragene Konflikte erhalten so eine neue Dimension: Die veränderte Medialisierung führt zu ihrer Ausdehnung in den globalen Cyberspace. Auf der Grundlage ethnographischer Forschungen zu den Online-Aktivitäten christlicher wie muslimischer Akteure im Molukkenkonflikt (1999-2002) untersucht die Studie Prozesse der Identitätskonstruktion und Gemeinschaftsbildung im Internet. Die Autorin leistet damit einen innovativen Beitrag zur Konflikt- und Internetforschung und ebnet methodisch den Weg für eine neue Cyberethnologie

AbstractIn 2007, village kings from all over the Moluccan province gathered in Ambon city and founded a pan-Moluccan raja forum called Majelis Latupati Maluku (MLM). The association is meant to unite traditional leadership, re-integrate Moluccan society and build an effective interface to the regional government. Decisive were two factors: firstly, the inter-religious violence that had torn Moluccan society apart required neutral means to (re)unify the Moluccan people and prevent further conflict; and secondly, the decentralisation laws passed in post-Suharto Indonesia were meant to re-empower the local level by legalising the revival and reconstruction of local political structures and the comeback of traditional leaders, such as the raja, in the Moluccas. These village kings attracted tremendous attention all of a sudden and great hopes are placed in them both from the top, as well as from the bottom. This article aims to discuss the enormous challenges the MLM faces by analysing current developments and looking into the historical dimension of the raja and the MLM. This includes critical reflections on questions of representation, the interface between tradition (adat) and politics, the notion of an inventive adaptation of so-called traditional institutions to new requirements and the potential of the raja and the MLM as means for peace.

AbstractOne of the most violent conflicts of the post-Suharto era took place in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia, from 1999 until 2003. Due to a strategic mobilisation process, it was mainly fought out between Christians and Muslims. After the conflict, local actors in the Moluccas hoped to build up sustainable peace through the revival of traditions that are supposed to overcome religious differences and enable harmonious living together. Taking up these local voices or voices that claim to be local, this paper wants to discuss the option of a cultural approach to conflict solution and to reflect on the reconciliatory potential of the revival of tradition. The prominent village alliance system in the Central Moluccas called pela serves as an example how 'traditional' mechanisms were used in order to foster reconciliation. This paper also analyses challenges and problems of the revival-reconciliation interplay in order to reveal both the integrative, as well as the exclusivist, character of revived traditions that are supposed to overcome religious differences.

The globalisation of local conflicts. Strategic usage of the Internet in the Moluques conflict.
The new media, including the Internet which holds the pole position, differ from traditional media through certain features – interactivity, multi-mediality, overcoming the constraints of place, and networking. Because of this, the Internet can give local conflicts an international dimension. This power is illustrated here by the case of the Moluques conflict which opposed Christians and Moslems from 1999 to 2002. The article shows how the conflict was spread by local agents via the Internet network and the strategies employed. The Internet was used as an instrument in the conflict and was presented as a weapon whose potential exceeded that of " cyber wars" using viruses or verbal flame wars, which up until now have been the focal point of studies on the Web. The question of identity, borders and forming communities plays a central role. The article underlines that the Internet has inaugurated a new era in how conflicts are presented and conducted. It shows that the Internet is both a tool and a field for ethnology. The tried-and-tested methods and the theoretical concepts such as identity, community and conflict provide an important contribution to studying the Internet and at the same time, the nature of the subject of the research implies that they must be reworked and adapted.