Throughout history, people described as witches have been persecuted. Research at ANU is focusing on what can be done to prevent this sorcery-related violence. Ross Peake interviews Dr. Miranda Forsyth.
Witchcraft and sorcery-related violence, the focus of much attention in recent years, is seemingly an intractable problem that is impossible to remedy (see Forsyth and Eves 2015).
In 2015, the Australian Government–funded Nabilan1 Program (Ending Violence against Women) conducted a study on violence against women and children in Timor-Leste (Asia Foundation 2016).
Women’s economic empowerment is now seen to be a critical
aspect of poverty reduction and development and is an
important goal of the current Australian aid program. Economic
This In Brief reports on research undertaken in Bougainville
in October 2015 (Eves and Crawford 2014).1 Unlike previous
studies, this research specifically explored the relationship
Richard Eves has just returned from five weeks in Papua New Guinea, where he undertook fieldwork as part of the project, Do No Harm: Understanding the Relationship Between Women’s Economic Empowerment and Violence Against Women in Melanesia, a collaboration between SSGM and the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA).
