{"id":11352,"date":"2019-11-21T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/21\/peace-agreements-normally-fail-within-five-years-bougainville-is-a-lesson-to-us-all"},"modified":"2019-11-21T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:47:10","slug":"peace-agreements-normally-fail-within-five-years-bougainville-is-a-lesson-to-us-all-bertie-ahern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11352","title":{"rendered":"Peace agreements normally fail within five years. Bougainville is a lesson to us all | Bertie Ahern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bougainvilleans will vote in an independence referendum this weekend, the result of a unique Melanesian process of reconciliation<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago Bougainville lost 20,000 people in a brutal civil war that lasted almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p>This week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/birth-of-a-nation-bougainvilles-referendum-explained\">Bougainvilleans will go to the polls to vote on independence<\/a> from Papua New Guinea, but in a very different mood \u2013 one of joy and celebration. Underlying this historic occasion is a resolve by all sides to honour the fallen, but never again return to conflict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/21\/peace-agreements-normally-fail-within-five-years-bougainville-is-a-lesson-to-us-all\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bougainvilleans will vote in an independence referendum this weekend, the result of a unique Melanesian process of reconciliationThirty years ago Bougainville lost 20,000 people in a brutal civil war that lasted almost a decade.This week Bougainvillean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,945,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}