RAMSI chapter ends in Australia’s Pacific story

Australian soldiers patrol a road leading to the Solomon Islands Parliament House in Honiara, 25 April 2006. (Photo: Reuters/Tim Wimborne )

Author: James Batley, ANU

On 30 June this year, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) will come to an end after 14 years. RAMSI was deployed in mid-2003 at the invitation of a desperate Solomon Islands government following several years of conflict between armed militant groups, a collapse in law and order and in the state’s capacity to deliver services Read more…