Traditional Justice - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 03 May 2012 09:30:59 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Traditional Justice - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Chiefs and church leaders resolve conflict at grassroots. https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/04/chiefs-and-church-leaders-resolve-conflict-at-grassroots/ Thu, 03 May 2012 19:30:42 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=24662

In the Pacific, it has been found that community leaders such as chiefs and church leaders resolve conflict on a day to day basis often preventing needless escalation of disputes. A University of Queensland researcher, Morgan Brigg, says research in Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea's Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu shows peace and order is Read more

Chiefs and church leaders resolve conflict at grassroots.... Read more]]> In the Pacific, it has been found that community leaders such as chiefs and church leaders resolve conflict on a day to day basis often preventing needless escalation of disputes.

A University of Queensland researcher, Morgan Brigg, says research in Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea's Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu shows peace and order is most often dealt with at grass roots levels.

"The formal justice system is often remote from people, police may be a long way away, it maybe difficult or expensive to get access to the court system, so its actually chiefs and church leaders predominantly, we've found, who are often doing a lot of the everyday conflict management work," he says.
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