By Anita Jowitt, Dr Tess Newton Cain
Quite a few concerns face Pacific states looking for their means within the early twenty first century. international locations are striving to safe some great benefits of modernisation. Governance, legislation and order are had to achieve this sort of target, yet improvement can't be on the expense of tradition or the surroundings. The query of ways to improve and keep sound criminal platforms and felony ideas when retaining the original cultural heritages in the Pacific is a problem without effortless solution. This interdisciplinary assortment locates problems with legislations and governance in the specific socio-political context of the Pacific island zone, proposing sociological, anthropological and political insights along jurisprudential research. Key matters together with corruption, the position of favourite legislations in smooth criminal platforms, where of human rights within the Pacific, environmental matters and the constitution of the nation are explored from quite a few views.
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Land In the contemporary era changes in land tenure rooted in colonial history have led to outright conflicts. Relatively small parcels of alienated free hold and state owned land (in many islands, the British concept of state ownership dubiously exists and extends to the tidal water mark) sit amidst customary owned land. Where land boundaries among indigenous landowners have not been surveyed and documented there are many disagreements over where one group’s land rights end and another group’s begin.
6 Their approach was a model of development that perceived change as the transformation of traditional social order through a process of modernisation. This meant the changing of values and attitudes, institutions and societal orientation to those prevailing in the industrialised liberal democracies of the West. Modernisation essentially meant 10 MODERNISATION AND DEVELOPMENT Westernisation. The theoretical perspectives included Parsons’s pattern variables, various elite theories, modernising institutions, Easton’s input-output model and empirical development indicators.
Thus Bau and Bua in Fiji emerged as powerful chiefdoms by the 1830s. Missionaries backed the more powerful chiefs to extend their authority over neighboring polities. During this period several theocratic kingdoms backed by Wesleyan, London Missionary Society (LMS) and Catholic missionaries sprang up. The growing numbers of Europeans and their often disruptive activities drew the attention of their respective countries. These imperialist countries soon became embroiled in a scramble for colonies, which led to the carving of Oceania amongst them.