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| Title: | FIJI: Democracy disabled due to uninformed citizenry |
| Other Titles: | DEMOCRACY DISABLED DUE TO UNINFORMED CITIZENRY |
| Authors: | Bhim, Mosmi |
| Keywords: | Fiji
ethno-nationalism
Fiji coups
democracy
Great Council of Chiefs
religion
ethnicity
elections
human rights
protest
freedom of speech
culture |
| Issue Date: | 13-Apr-2010 |
| Publisher: | Pacific Media Watch |
| Abstract: | Democracy in Fiji: This presentation at the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS)conference in Melbourne on April 10 is based on a research & policy paper - to be submitted for publication.
Democracy in Fiji has been top-down whereby politicians, professionals & CSOs advocated against coups rather than the grassroots
Ethno-nationalists saw democracy as foreign flower but some now support elections
5 Dec 2006 coup in Fiji – difficult moral (divisive) questions for ethno-nationalists & former democracy advocates. Note: the views expressed in this presentation are the views of the author, Mosmi Bhim. [pdf of slide show]
[These views do not reflect the views of the organisation, Citizens’ Constitutional Forum (CCF) where she is employed.] |
| Description: | This work is licensed by a Creative Commons 'by-attribution sharealike' licence. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3065 |
| Appears in Collections: | Media Research Papers and Documents
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