Addressing gender-based violence at the community level: the role of urban village courts in PNG
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Drawing on ongoing fieldwork in three Port Moresby Village Courts, Fiona Hukula considers the role of the Village Court in implementing the Family Protection Act.
Fiona Hukula completed a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews in 2013. Fiona has been researching aspects of urban life with a focus on urban Village Courts and Access to Justice, Urban Sociality and Port Moresby settlements. Fiona has a particular interest in gender and violence and how violence is understood and mediated locally. For more detail visit her RegNet profile.
Date & time
Wed 07 Dec 2016, 11.30am–12.30pm
Location
RegNet Level 3 Meeting Rm (3.14), Coombs Extension Building (8), Fellows Road, ANU
Speakers
Fiona Hukula, Senior Research Fellow & Program Leader of the Building Safer Communities Program at the Papua New Guinea National Research Institute