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

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Title: Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG Part 6: Catalysts of Accusation and Violence
Author(s): Forsyth, Miranda
Losoncz, Ibolya
Gibbs, Philip
Hukula, Fiona
Kipongi, William
Date published: 2021
Publisher: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University
Series/Report no.: Department of Pacific Affairs in brief series: 2021/6
Description: 
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 with no physical violence and those that involved violence) in four provinces over a four-and-a-half year period (January 20161–June 2020). Here, we reflect on what we have learnt about the factors that catalyse accusations of sorcery and consider which factors are salient in causing accusations to turn into violence. We consider three dimensions of the landscape in which the potential of SARV is situated: 1. Conducive structural factors — essential or conducive structural factors relevant to the development of SARV; 2. Proximate factors — shorter term, localised factors that provide the enabling environment; and 3. Trigger events that are closely connected with actual accusation.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/228693
ISSN: 2205-7404

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