Bougainville literacy workers develop materials to promote conflict awareness

In this article, Clem McCartney describes the process carried out by literacy workers in Bougainville to create a critical literacy pack that would help residents, particularly those living in remote villages, to gain a better understanding of the conflict that was taking place and the ways that they could be involved in the peace process.

The process began with a workshop held in Bougainville in 2001, followed by further development of the ideas raised to produce draft materials, which were then put through a testing period. The intention of the literacy pack was to raise awareness and to contribute to the consolidation of the peace agreement.