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Prof Anthony Regan
Fellow, State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program (SSGM), School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
Emailanthony.regananu.eduau
Anthony Regan is a constitutional lawyer who specialises in constitutional development as part of conflict resolution. Has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for 15 years and in Uganda for over three years. In PNG he advised government on decentralisation policy and law and taught at the UPNG Law Faculty, and was involved in the Bougainville peace process. In Uganda he was a constitutional adviser to the Government of Uganda. He has been an adviser to Bougainville parties in the Bougainville peace process since 1994, and has been involved in the Solomon Islands and Sri Lanka peace processes, and the constitution-making process in East Timor.
Government legal adviser, Papua New Guinea (1981-85); Senior Fellow, PNG Institute of Applied Social & Economic Research (1981-89); Senior Lecturer, Law Faculty, University of Papua New Guinea (1989-96); full-time constitutional adviser to Government of Uganda (1991-94).
His current research includes: < situations; conflict post state design resolution, development constitutional>conflict resolution in Melanesia, with particular reference to the lessons from the Bougainville conflict; ombudsman institutions and leadership codes as constitutional accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms; civil society in Melanesia.
LLB (Adelaide)
Comparative Government and Politics
Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori)
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Papua-New Guinea Social Sciences 100%
referendum Social Sciences 72%
Melanesia Social Sciences 63%
peace process Social Sciences 59%
Papua New Guinea Arts & Humanities 51%
small scale mining Earth & Environmental Sciences 42%
peace Social Sciences 42%
constitution-making Social Sciences 40%
The 2019 Bougainville Referendum and the Question of Independence: From Conflict to Consensus
Regan, A., Baker, K. & Cintra Oppermann, T., 2022, In: Journal of Pacific History. 57, 1, p. 58-88
Referendum 100%
referendum 81%
Papua New Guinea 77%
Papua-New Guinea 67%
Government 33%
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea: Lessons from a Successful Peace Process
Regan, A., 2018, In: The RUSI Journal. 163, 6, p. 44-54
Papua-New Guinea 100%
peace process 99%
peace 46%
reconciliation 27%
incentive 21%
Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Bougainville: Risk, Reward and Regulation
O'Faircheallaigh, C. S., Regan, A. & Kenema, S., 2017, In: State Society and Governance in Melanesia. 4, p. 1-20
reward 100%
miner 71%
'Designated areas' and the regulation of artisanal and small-scale mining
Corbett, T., O'Faircheallaigh, C. S. & Regan, A., 2017, In: Land Use Policy. 68, p. 393-401
small scale mining 100%
land 25%
economic activity 19%
IB2016/26 The Pacific Research Colloquium: Strengthening Skills and Partnerships with Pacific Researchers
Dixon, S., Munro, J. & Regan, A., 2016
East-Timor 100%
Melanesia 91%
privilege 69%
research method 62%
social science 55%
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