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Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the International Community.

Publication: Contemporary Southeast Asia
Publication Date: 01-AUG-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the International Community.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the International Community. By Timo Kivimaki. Policy Studies 25, Washington: East-West Center, 2006. Softcover: 83pp.

The August 2005 Helsinki Peace Agreement for Aceh demonstrates to all of us, especially the Indonesian Government, that a peace process for conflict in Papua is possible and needs to be actualized. The author, Timo Kivimaki, has scrutinized the possibilities for dialogue in order to find the formulation to promote the peace process for the conflict in Papua. Inspired by the achievement of the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), or Aceh Peace Agreement, Dr Kivimaki attempts to examine the possibilities of starting a peace process by promoting the process of dialogue. Through a comprehensive study of the context, construction and violent episodes of the conflict, followed by an identification of the actors involved, this book contends that, with the Aceh model in mind, dialogue as a...

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