AFP

Australian Federal Police

ASPI

Australian Strategic Policy Institute

AusAID

Australian Agency for International Development

BRA

Bougainville Revolutionary Army

COC

Christian Outreach Centre

DPP

Director of Public Prosecutions

EU

European Union

GDP

gross domestic product

GLF

Guadalcanal Liberation Front

IFM

Isatabu Freedom Movement

IMF

International Monetary Fund

IPMT

International Peace Monitoring Team

kastom

custom or customary law

kiap

patrol officers in colonial Papua and New Guinea

MEF

Malaita Eagle Force

MP

Member of Parliament

nabe

placid or peaceful

NGO

non-governmental organisation

NPC

National Peace Council

NZAID

New Zealand’s International Aid and Development Agency

OECD

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

PMC

Peace Monitoring Council

PNG

Papua New Guinea

PPF

Participating Police Force (police component of RAMSI)

RAMSI

Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands

SDA

Seventh-Day Adventist Church

SICA

Solomon Islands Christian Association

SSEC

South Sea Evangelical Church

TRC

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

UK

United Kingdom

UN

United Nations

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNICEF

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

UNPOL

United Nations Police Force

US

United States of America

waku

Chinese/Asian person

wantok

People with whom one shares a set of mutual social obligations. Literally translated as ‘speaking the same language’.

wantokism

the wantok system

WWF

World Wide Fund for Nature