Acronyms and glossary
Acronyms
AGB Autonomous Government of Bougainville
AusAID Australian Agency for International Development
BCA Bougainville Constituent Assembly
BCL Bougainville Copper Limited
BICWF Bougainville Inter-Church Women¹s Forum
BIG Bougainville Interim Government
BILA Bougainville Interim Legal Authorities
BIPG Bougainville Interim Provincial Government
BLF Buka Liberation Front BPC Bougainville People's Congress
BPRO Bougainville Peace and Restoration Office
BRA Bougainville Revolutionary Army
BRF Bougainville Resistance Forces
BRG Bougainville Reconciliation Government
BSPC Bougainville Special Political Committee
BTG Bougainville Transitional Government
BWG Bougainville Working Group
BWPF Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom
CILA Central Bougainville Interim Legal Authority
CPC Constitutional Planning Committee
CRA Conzinc Rio Tinto, Australia
IOT International Observers Team
MA Melanesian Alliance
MDF Me'ekamui Defence Force
MRA Moral Re-Armament
MRS Mobile Riot Squads
NEC National Executive Council
NSPG The North Solomons Provincial Government
PANGU Papua New Guinea Union
PDM People's Democratic Movement
PLA Panguna Landowners Association
PMG Peace Monitoring Group
PNG Papua New Guinea
PNGDF Papua New Guinea Defence Forces
PPCC Peace Process Consultative Committee
PTF Peace Transport Fund
RPNGC Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary
SBIA South Bougainville Interim Authority
SOE State of Emergency
SPPKF South Pacific Peacekeeping Force
SSN Special State Negotiator
TMG Truce Monitoring Group
UCA Uniting Church in Australia
UDI Universal Declaration of Independence
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNOMB United Nations observer mission in Bougainville
UNPOB United Nations Political Office in Bougainville
Glossary
cargo cult: A term applied to a number of indigenous groups who believed that at the millennium the spirits of their ancestors will return and bring with them food and other Western goods. They desired harmony among themselves and in their relations with Europeans. Some scholars feel the term is used so loosely as to have become meaningless.
double entrenchment: Safeguard mechanisms in the Bougainville Peace Agreement on amending the agreed constitutional arrangement for autonomy and referendum, so as to ensure that any future changes are based on both national parliamentary and Bougainvillean legislative consent.
highest form of autonomy: The preferred term of the Bougainvillean negotiators, used to describe ‘the highest level of self-government short of independence’, with the transfer of all functions and powers of governance exclusive to the Province other than those on a list agreed to be ‘essential’ to the national government.
fasten the land: To impose an embargo (Itambu) prohibiting outsiders from entering a community’s land. In central Bougainville it was believed that women in particular had the authority and ability to ‘fasten the land’ and thereby to lock up the ore, preventing its discovery or extraction.
Me’ekamui: ‘holy land’ in the Nasioi language. The preferred term used by Francis Ona to describe the traditional homeland of the Bougainvilleans.
red skins: Derogatory term used by some Bougainvilleans to describe settlers and all those from the PNG mainland with lighter skin colour than Bougainvilleans.
taraoting: Literally ‘vomiting’ in tok pisin, describing the public (and cathartic) expression of grievances and views during workshops or gatherings.
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