...This book examines the causes of the violence and unrest that erupted in Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known as the Ethnic Tension, from the perspective of ex-militants. Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-nine men who describe themselves as ex-militants...

... and western Solomons, the history of labor migration, and the nature of postcolonial political culture and its connection with the rapacious logging industry. It then describes the politics of regional and island-wide identity before turning to the Ethnic Tension of 1998–2003 that began with the uprising...

...This book offers important new perspectives on the violence and unrest that gripped Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known as the Ethnic Tension. Based on in-depth interviews and documents associated with the “Tension Trials,” it is the first detailed account of the conflict...

... to negotiate her ethnic and national identities at her trial for treason after the Japanese empire collapsed. Living in an era replete with ethnic tension and international wars, Xianyu's repeated crossing of national boundaries puts her squarely within a generation of people who had complicated transnational...

...This chapter examines symmetries and historical continuities in the events and discourses of the Ethnic Tension in Solomon Islands. It highlights salient differences and similarities between the testimonies of the Guale and Malaitan ex-militants and argues that the ex-militants can be regarded...