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Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Human Agents and Networks in System Change Open

Miranda Forsyth, Anthea Roberts · 2025

This article focuses on the roles of insiders or outsiders in order to theorize the role that human agents play in systems change. It asks: (1) what strengths and weaknesses do insiders and outsiders have respectively as agents of change; …

Environmental Enforceable Undertakings: An Innovative Tool to Repair and Prevent Environmental Harm Open

Miranda Forsyth, Felicity Tepper · 2024

Business Environmental science Political science

This article identifies an emerging form of sanction for addressing environmental harm: the environmental enforceable undertaking (EEU). Currently used for environmental protection in Australia and the UK, the EEU is a cooperative, timely,…

Sorcery and witchcraft beliefs on the front line of public health response in Papua New Guinea and beyond Open

Miranda Forsyth, Joanne Taylor, Tambri Housen, Celeste Marsh, Philip Gibbs , et al. · 2024

Sociology History Geography

Problem: Many communities refer to sorcery or witchcraft to explain misfortunes such as sickness, death and disability. The effects of these beliefs on public health service delivery have long been overlooked. Beliefs in sorcery and witchc…

The Emergence of a Pacific Criminology Open

Moses Faleolo, Miranda Forsyth · 2024

Sociology

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Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in Papua New Guinea: The Impact of SARV on Children Open

Miranda Forsyth, Philip Gibbs, William Kipongi, Ibolya Losoncz · 2021

Psychology Political science History

Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper No. 97, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra.

A future agenda for environmental restorative justice? Open

Miranda Forsyth, Deborah Cleland, Felicity Tepper, Deborah Hollingworth, Milena Karla Soares , et al. · 2021

Political science Sociology Geography

A future agenda for environmental restorative justice? The challenges of developing meaningful environmental regulation to protect communities and the environment have never been greater. Environmental regulators are regularly criticised f…

Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG Part 5: Incidents and Victims Open

Miranda Forsyth, Ibolya Losoncz, Philip Gibbs, Fiona Hukula, William Kipongi · 2021

Political science Psychology History

This is the fifth In Brief in a series presenting findings from a multi-year study of sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In 2017, the first In Brief of the series described the two main quantitative data …

Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG Part 6: Catalysts of Accusation and Violence Open

Miranda Forsyth, Ibolya Losoncz, Philip Gibbs, Fiona Hukula, William Kipongi · 2021

Political science Psychology

This is the sixth In Brief on the findings from a quantitative analysis of sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). We report on an incident database of recorded SARV cases (including incidents of accusation wi…

Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG Part 7: The Harm of SARV Open

Miranda Forsyth, Ibolya Losoncz, Philip Gibbs, Fiona Hukula, William Kipongi · 2021

Political science History Psychology

This is the seventh In Brief in a series presenting findings from a multi-year study of sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). This In Brief reports on the various dimensions of harm that SARV creates for ind…

Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG - Part 8: Responses to Prevent Sorcery Accusation Turning to Violence - Reporting from the SARV Incident Database Open

Miranda Forsyth, Ibolya Losoncz, Philip Gibbs, Fiona Hukula, William Kipongi · 2021

History Political science Psychology

This In Brief is the final part in a series presenting findings from a multi-year study of sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) in PNG in four hotspot provinces — Enga, The Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Bougainville), Jiwaka and…

Innovative data collection and integration to investigate Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in Papua New Guinea Open

Ibolya Losoncz, Miranda Forsyth, Judy Putt · 2020

History Political science Sociology

Despite global outrage at several widelypublicized, extreme incidents of sorcery accusation related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG), research into SARV has been largely limited to ethnographic accounts, with little done to docume…

Contagion of Violence: The Role of Narratives, Worldviews, Mechanisms of Transmission and Contagion Entrepreneurs Open

Miranda Forsyth, Philip Gibbs · 2019

Psychology Sociology Economics

This paper develops the theory of the social contagion of violence by proposing a four-part analytical framework that focuses on: (1) contagious narratives and the accompanying behavioural script about the use of violence as a response to …

Making Room for Magic in Intellectual Property Policy Open

Miranda Forsyth · 2019

Business Art Political science

In 2010, I returned to Australia to take up a research-intensive position

Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University Open

Matthew Allen, Miranda Forsyth, Joseph D. Foukona, Jon Fraenkel, Sandra Tarte , et al. · 2019

Geography Political science History

This book is inspired by the University of the South Pacific, the leading institution of higher education in the Pacific Islands region. Founded in 1968, USP has expanded the intellectual horizons of generations of students from its 12 mem…

Report on Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in Bougainville for the Autonomous Bougainville Government Open

Miranda Forsyth · 2019

Political science Sociology Philosophy

This report presents some of the top-level findings of a research trip conducted between 27 February and 9 March 2019 by Miranda Forsyth and Llane Munau. We conducted 52 interviews with: Chiefs, VC magistrates, Police and CAPs, Accused, Ac…

Early Modern Witchcraft Trials: Are There Lessons for Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence Today? Open

Miranda Forsyth · 2018

History Political science Sociology

In this In Brief, the author talks about the relevance of witchcraft trials in early modern Europe to the contemporary sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

‘Activating’ the powers of law in the South Pacific Open

Miranda Forsyth · 2018

Political science Sociology

There is a global trend of increasing expectations and demands on law to bring about social change. In the two main areas I have researched for the past ten years�the regulation and protection of intellectual property and traditional knowl…

Hybridity in peacebuilding and development: a critical approach Open

Miranda Forsyth, Lia Kent, Sinclair Dinnen, Joanne Wallis, Srinjoy Bose · 2017

Sociology Philosophy

The concept of hybridity has been used in numerous ways by scholars across a range of disciplines to generate important analytical and methodological insights. Its most recent application in the social sciences has also attracted powerful …

Sorcery Accusation–Related Violence in Papua New Guinea Part 2: Key Characteristics of Incidents, Victims and Perpetrators Open

Miranda Forsyth, Judy Putt, Thierry Bouhours, Brigitte Bouhours · 2017

Political science Psychology Sociology

It is extremely difficult to gauge the nature and extent of sorcery accusation–related violence (SARV) at a national level in any country. In part this is due to under-reporting and because official health and justice records do not typica…

Regulating Cultural Performances in Oceania: the Complicated Relationship between Law, Creativity and Cultural Property Open

Miranda Forsyth, Kalissa Alexeyeff · 2016

Sociology Political science History

This paper explores a number of tensions around claims of rights over various aspects of cultural performance with a particular focus on the Cook Islands. We discuss the historical context of these tensions and trace the way in which certa…

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