Stanford - Papua New Guinea
Conference on Development
Friday, Feb. 26
7-8 p.m. Opening Ceremony and Keynote Address by Minister of Education Hon. James Marape, Elliot Program Center (on Lake Lag)
8-9 p.m. Photo Exhibit and Networking, Elliot Program Center
Saturday, Feb. 27
10-11:30 a.m. Building A State: Governance, Civil Society & The Rule of Law, Bldg. 320-105 (GeoCorner)
PANELISTS: Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Director of Johns Hopkins SAIS International Development Program; Amb. Robert Aisi, PNG Ambassador to the UN; Mr. James Laki, Executive Director of Peace Foundation Melanesia
12-1 p.m. Meet the Panelists: Student Roundtable Lunch FREE FOOD, Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden (in front of Roble Dorm)
. Sponsored by the1:30-3 p.m. Challenges in Public Health: Infectious Disease and Community Solutions, Bldg. 320-105 (GeoCorner)
PANELISTS: Dr. Fabian Ndenzako, HIV/AIDS Program Director for WHO's Western Pacific Region; Dr. Rachel Hinton, Senior Scientific Officer in 2002 with the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research; Dr. Kerry Pataki-Schweizer, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Portland Community College; Dr. Bob Siegel, Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University
3:15-4:45 p.m. Conservation and Corruption: Toward Environmentally Sustainable Development, Bldg. 320-105 (GeoCorner)
PANELISTS: Anne Kajir, CEO of the Environmental Law Center; Dr. Jerry Jacka, Professor of Environmental Anthropology at University of Texas, San Antonio; Dr. Stuart Kirsch, Professor of Environmental Anthropology at University of Michigan
5:00-6:00 p.m. Workshops
"Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS at the Village Level": Maryanne Tokome-Amu, Founder of the Wapenamanda Centre for Primary Health Care, Bldg. 20-22K (HumBio)
HIV/AIDS has crippled the health and stymied the health services of the people of Wapenamanda, Enga Province, PNG. Ms. Tokome-Amu, RN, returned to her province after getting an MS in Primary Health Care Management from the School of Medicine, Flinders University of South Australia, to found a health care center and a community health worker corps of women to provide treatment and educate about HIV/AIDS in her community. Her workshop will discuss her efforts and the challenges to mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in rural villages, particularly the formation of eight “mama groups” of women to reach out to local women, girls, and men to educate them about the dangers of HIV. The “mamas” also support women who are pregnant by bringing them to the center for testing so that care and treatment is given before the baby is born.
"The PNG Restrorative Justice Process: Integrating Cultural Tradition in a Western Legal System": Donna Decker Morris, J. D., Director of the Legal Studies Program and Director of the UNH Center for Dispute Resolution at the University of New Haven, Bldg. 320-221 (GeoCorner)
Applying restorative justice processes, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has taken an innovative approach to address access to justice and law and order problems and to integrate cultural traditions with a national judicial system. In one of the world’s most diverse countries, PNG established the Village Courts to promote community harmony and to preserve cultural traditions in the midst of development within a western legal system. To the extent local customs do not conflict with human rights, Village Courts apply those customs through mediation and arbitration to resolve minor criminal and civil disputes, with over 1,100 Village Courts functioning by 2008. This workshop explores how well PNG’s experiment with Village Courts is working and suggests for discussion ways in which the current model could be improved to better serve the people of Papua New Guinea and to serve as a model for use in other countries.
"The 10 Realities of Development": Dr. Kerry Pataki-Schweizer, Environmental Anthropologist, Bldg. 320-220 (GeoCorner)
Development is inherently many-faceted. It includes cultural, demographic, economic, health, ideological, political and technological faces. All of these have their genesis in human behavior in its fullest range. This indicates something significant: all, and therefore development, are inextricably linked to culture in its formal, i.e. anthropological sense. Such a statement is neither banal nor esoteric; it simply means that the datum upon which development proceeds refracts human behavior including values and beliefs, a spectrum well beyond the parameters of any project. I was for many years at the University of Papua New Guinea. as teacher, administrator, researcher and consultant. This includes fieldwork in New Guinea, Southeast Asia and several years as a WHO consultant for the Western Pacific Region. Over that time, I engaged and observed the realities of “development” or, introduced multidimensional sectoral change impacting every individual, collective, environmental, institutional and political domain of that sector at whatever scale. I thought to give some principles about development realized that they were not “principles”, but realities I had witnessed. They are given here as a monitoring statement, a reality-check, and a guide for efforts that are not condemned to a circular existence through their own institutional structure, mnemonics and stasis. Since they derive from personal experience and differ considerably from the orthodoxies of development, they warrant discussion in this workshop and conference.
Sunday, Feb. 28
11-12:30 a.m. Education as Empowerment: Creating Infrastructure for Universal Access & Achievement, Bldg. 320-105 (GeoCorner)
PANELISTS: Hon. James Marape, PNG Minister of Education; Mr. Teng Waninga, Head of the Department of Curriculum and Training at Goroka University; Ms. Evelyn Pusal, teacher and MA Candidate Education Technology at University of Hawaii
1-3 p.m. Lunch & Closing Conversation with Ambassador Robert Aisi, Bechtel International Center