The social consequences of external intervention in the Solomon Islands

Kylie Evans

Research program: Australia in the Asia-Pacific

My research will explore the social consequences of external intervention within the Solomon Islands through an investigation of the procedures utilised within the RAMSI Intervention to assist the state and a discussion of the impacts of commercial logging industry at a village level including the impacts upon social networks and surrounding environments. Further I will explain the manner how foreign aid and investment affect social networks in the Solomon Islands from centralised state through to the village level. This topic will also be closely linked to issues of state sovereignty and civil society and will include an assessment of future good governance and the possibility of the Solomon Islands remaining fragile after the departure of RAMSI.