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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fletcher, Gillian

Titel

Sorcery accusation related violence: The limits of fixed knowledge in generating change

Ist Teil von

• Engendering Transformative Change in International Development, 2019, Vol.1, p.107-124

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter continues discussion on the subject of sorcery accusation related violence in PNG. Having demonstrated in the previous chapter how sorcery accusation related violence became mislabelled ‘violence against women’, in this chapter the author examines the international development community’s response to this complex challenge. As becomes starkly clear, lessons that should have been learnt with respect to achieving transformative change (detailed in Chapter 2) have not been applied. Instead, the response has focused on (1) change to law and policy (in a country with a pluralist legal system and no effective state rule of law) and (2) application of ‘fixed knowledge’ to an issue that requires practical wisdom. The chapter offers examples of where practical wisdom has been used in response to sorcery accusation related violence in PNG by people who are deeply embedded in their communities, but also demonstrates the ways in which this practical wisdom has been side-lined within institutional responses. This chapter focuses on the subject of sorcery accusation related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It offers examples of where practical wisdom has been used in response to sorcery accusation related violence in PNG by people who are deeply embedded in their communities, but also demonstrates the ways in which this practical wisdom has been side-lined within institutional responses. In relation to government policy, a great deal of international development time and money went into development of PNG's Sorcery Accusation Related Violence National Action Plan. Development of the NAP began after two conferences held on sorcery-related violence in 2013. International Women's Development Agency and Oxfam Papua New Guinea had been working with individual women's organisations in the PNG Highlands since the late 2000s but the focus, then, was predominantly on 'family violence'. When the Highlands Women's Human Rights Network was formed in 2011, it started to receive support from the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights.