Miranda Forsyth – The Conversation

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August 27, 2024

PNG has had a horror year of conflict – but peace rarely comes through the barrel of a gun

Miranda Forsyth, Australian National University and Sinclair Dinnen, Australian National University

The ‘solution’ to conflict in PNG is often simplistic: more robust policing. That hasn’t worked – but there’s another approach that could.

A medieval engraving of the persecution of witches: historians are increasingly demonstrating that belief in witchcraft survived in Western Europe well into the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries. Wikimedia Commons

September 3, 2018

Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft‑related violence today?

Charlotte-Rose Millar, The University of Queensland; Daniel Midena, The University of Queensland, and Miranda Forsyth, Australian National University

It is estimated that thousands of people are killed in witchcraft-related violence around the world each year. How can we tackle this problem today?

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