Environmental toll of oil spill still being calculated, Solomon Times 3 July 2019, link Analysis: The political economy of the Solomon Islands oil spill, by Daniel Evans DevPolicyBlog, 8 March 2019, link The MV Solomon Trader stuck on a reef off Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands is leaking oil into the ocean. Feb. 2019. Photo: Australian High Commission in Solomon Islands, Radio New Zealand, 4 March 2019 ------------------------ Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) holds talks with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill in Port Moresby on 16 Nov. 2018 (Xinhua/Ding Lin); Assessments of the APEC summit by the APEC minister Tkatchenko, Post-Courier link, Nick Bisley, ABC News (US-China tensions leave cooperation in the cold) link, Arne Perras in Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Eine Konferenz wird zur Arena) link und Tagesschau zum APEC Gipfel vom 18. Nov. 2018 link ------------------------ Air Niugini`s Boeing 737-800 landing in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia Photo: AFP or licensors, Radio New Zealand, 29 September 2018, link ------------------------           June 2018 Post-election riots in PNGs   Southern Highlands Province: first Air Niugini aircraft set alight, link Photo: Martyn Namarong on Twitter ------------------------ Oceans Face Ultimate Threat from Deep Sea Mining Urgent Need for Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining Exploration and Exploitation Joint letter of scientists and NGOs to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) 25 July 2018, here ------------------------ New Report of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Deep seabed mining: A rising environmental challenge "We are operating in the dark. Our current understanding of the deep sea does not allow us to effectively protect marine life from mining operations." (Carl Gustaf Lundin) "Stringent precautionary measures to protect the marine environment should be a core part of any mining regulations, yet these remain missing in action." (Kristina Gjerde) 16 July 2018, link ------------------------ Stop the Exploitation of the Deep Sea! POSITION PAPER OF GERMAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS ON DEEP SEA MINING AG Tiefseebergbau 14. Mai 2018, deutsch hier, English here ------------------------ Jonathan Pryke: What next for Papua New Guinea? A series of papers of Sydney´s Lowy Institute assessing the contemporary state of PNG (local politics, the PNG society, the internal security, the current state of the economy, the infrastructure, the changing nature of geopolitics in PNG, and a summarising paper on future scenarios). 6 December 2017, link ------------------------ 18 December 2017: Pohiva retains Tonga prime ministership. link 17 November 2017: Akilisi Pohiva´s Democratic Party has won a resounding election victory in Tonga. Voters continue to back political reform. link Photo: RNZ / Koro Vaka´uta ------------------------ Link Spiegel Online 9. November 2017: Die Schande von Manus: Australiens Flüchtlingslager im Pazifik   Foto: Spiegel Online, 9. November 2017 ------------------------ Celebrating the 42th Independence of Papua New Guinea, Melanesian Institute, Goroka, 19 September 2017 (photos: Roland Seib) Poster: Goroka Show Goroka Show, 16 September 2017 (photos: Roland Seib) ------------------------ "The deep sea mining disco love song" (Seas at Risk, Brussels, 21 April 2017); link ------------------------ PRESSEMITTEILUNG Berlin, 13.12.2016 Verbände fordern Stopp des Tiefseebergbaus! Kein Wettlauf um Rohstoffe auf Kosten von Umweltschutz und Menschenrechten link ------------------------ Buchtipps: Ulrich Brand & Markus Wissen: Imperiale Lebensweise. Zur Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur im globalen Kapitalismus. Oekom München 2017 Oliver Nachtwey: Die Abstiegsgesellschaft. Über das Aufbegehren in der regressiven Moderne. edition suhrkamp 2016 Stephan Lessenich: Neben uns die Sintflut. Die Externalisierungsgesellschaft und ihr Preis. Hanser Berlin 2016 ------------------------ Demonstration of Melanesian solidarity: independence groups from Maluku and West Papua, German Pacific Society, Hamburg 13 June 2015 Reference: Report "The Current Status of the Papuan Pro-Independence Movement" Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, Jakarta, August 2015, link ------------------------ » I don‘t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. « Edward J. Snowden am 08. Juli 2013 German Whistleblower Award 2013 to Edward Snowden, 30.08.2013 Statement of the jury, link Berliner Erklärung von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern  zu den Bedingungen der Demokratie in der DIGITAL-WELT Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW), Berlin, 29. August 2013, link (English translation: Berlin Declaration by Scientists on the Prerequisites for Democracy in the DIGITAL WORLD, link) ------------------------       (12 June 2012) New photo gallery:       "Mining and the Philippines" (see Asia) Report "No Golden Times. A study tour on mining and its impacts on the environment and human rights in the Philippines" 1 June 2012, 5 pages, available here   Impressions from the German Study Tour 2012 on Mining in the Philippines Consultation with the governor of the province South Cotabato, Arthur `Dodo´ Pingoy, City of Koronadal, Mindanao (photo: Roland Seib) Women power and good local governance with Mayor Lani Sarillo Candolada and councilors in Tulunan, South Cotabato, Mindanao (photo: Stephanie Gantert) Partying after Joint Cultural Solidarity Night with Tri-People Youth of Columbio, Tulunan, Mindanao (photo: Roland Seib) ------------------------ Dokumentation: Jahrestagungen der Deutsch-Pazifischen Gesellschaft e.V. 1974-2010: Themen und Referenten; verfügbar hier ------------------------ Friedensbotschaft auf Campus der Steyler Missionare erneuert Gedenkplakette in Vorbereitung                                © Heide Lienert-Emmerlich                                        Am 13. Juni 2010 trafen sich im Anschluss an die Jahrestagung der Deutsch-Pazifischen Gesellschaft e.V. (DPG) Hans-Joachim Brockmeyer, Heide Lienert-Emmerlich und Roland Seib im Garten der Steyler Missionare in St. Augustin bei Bonn, um mit dem Aufhängen eines weißen Tragenetzes (bilum) aus Papua-Neuguinea in der Friedenseiche zur weiteren  Vernetzung, Wahrnehmung und Wertschätzung des offenen Blickes auf die ganze Welt zu ermutigen. Die Friedenseiche war am 7. Mai 1987 vom Präsidenten der DPG Dr. Friedrich Steinbauer im Rahmen der Jahrestagung „Der Pazifik im Spannungsfeld der Weltmächte“ gepflanzt worden. In Vorbereitung ist nun eine Plakette, die vor der Eiche an diese Pflanzung des mittlerweile hoch gewachsenen Baums und seine Botschaft erinnern soll. (24 Nov. 2010)