INSTABILITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: A STATUS REPORT

Lowy Institute, 4th June 2018

KEY FINDINGS

• The challenges to internal resilience in the Pacific Islands are both structural — in the form of issues arising from population growth, urbanisation, land, immigration, health, and gender relations — and particular to the political situation in each Island nation.
• The inability of Pacific states to match service provision in cities with their growing populations is a major challenge to resilience.
• Of all political issues in Papua New Guinea, loss of customary land is the most likely to provoke protest and conflict.

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