Table of Contents “...Introduction: diminishing conflicts: learning from the Asia-Pacific -- Timor Leste: international intervention, gender and the dangers of negative peace / Susan Harris Rimmer -- Maluku: anomie to reconciliation / John Braithwaite -- Aceh: democratization and the politics of co-option / Edward Aspinall -- Solomon Islands: from uprising to intervention / Matthew Allen and Sinclair Dinnen -- Punjab: federalism, elections, suppression / Robin Jeffrey -- Sri Lanka: the end of war and the continuation of struggle / Bina D'Costa -- Bougainville: conflict deferred? ...”

Table of Contents “...Talib -- Powersharing and power dividing in the Asia-Pacific / Benjamin Reilly -- Buying peace in Timor-Leste : crisis, side-payments and regime-building / Douglas Kammen -- Conflict resolution and political change in Tonga / Ian C. ...”