Melanesia's violent environments: Extractive resource industries, agrarian change and conflict in the Western Pacific

大规模采矿活动与布干维尔岛（1989- 1998年）和瓜达尔卡纳尔岛（1998-2003年）的武装冲突有着深刻的牵连。美拉尼西亚岛现在正处于新的采矿业大繁荣的边缘，迫使人们紧急重新考虑该岛屿地区采矿、暴力和政治分裂之间的关系。该项目将侧重于土地变化的作用和不同地理范围内的社会经济不平等模式，这是对这些关系知之甚少的一个方面。研究结果将有助于制定政策方法，最大限度地减少进一步暴力的风险，同时也为“资源冲突”这一复杂的全球现象提供新的理论见解。

Large-scale mining activities were deeply implicated in the armed conflicts on the islands of Bougainville (1989-98) and Guadalcanal (1998-2003). Island Melanesia is now on the brink of a major new mining boom, compelling an urgent reconsideration of the relationships between mining, violence and political fragmentation in this island region. This project will focus on the role of agrarian change and patterns of socio-economic inequality at different geographical scales, a poorly understood dimension of these relationships. The results will contribute to the development of policy approaches that minimise the risk of further violence, while also offering new theoretical insights into the complex global phenomenon of 'resource conflict'.