Publications
Books
Boege, Volker, Casimira, Aisake, Ernst, Manfred and Szesnat, Felicity (2013). Voices of the people: perceptions and preconditions for democratic development in Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Institute for Research and Social Analysis, Pacific Theological College.
Boege, V H (2006). Water Governance in Southern Africa - Cooperation and Conflict Prevention in Transboundary River Basins. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion.
Book Chapters
Boege, Volker (2021). Hybrid Political Orders and Customary Peace. The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation. (pp. 613-626) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.45
Boege, Volker (2019). State formation in the context of hybrid political orders. Handbook on intervention and statebuilding. (pp. 113-123) edited by Nicolas Lemay-Hébert. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Boege, Volker (2018). The international-local interface in peacebuilding: the case of Bougainville. Exploring peace formation: security and justice in post-colonial states. (pp. 174-190) edited by Kwesi Aning, Volker Boege, M. Anne Brown and Charles T. Hunt. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315658377-10
Boege, Volker (2018). The hybridisation of peace, security and justice: cases from West Africa and Oceania. Exploring peace formation: security and justice in post-colonial states. (pp. 207-225) edited by Kwesi Aning, Volker Boege, M. Anne Brown and Charles T. Hunt. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315658377-12
Boege, Volker and Forsyth, Miranda (2018). Customary conflict resolution in a state environment: cases from Vanuatu. Exploring peace formation: security and justice in post-colonial states. (pp. 191-206) edited by Kwesi Aning, Volker Boege, M. Anne Brown and Charles T. Hunt. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315658377-11
Boege, Volker (2018). Hybridisation of peacebuilding at the local–international interface: the Bougainville case. Hybridity on the ground in peacebuilding and development: critical conversations. (pp. 115-128) edited by Joanne Wallis, Lia Kent, Miranda Forsyth , Sinclair Dinnen and Srinjoy Bose. Acton, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/hgpd.03.2018.07
Boege, Volker (2017). Looking beyond institutional reform Engaging with the hybridization of peace and political order. Two cases from Oceania and West Africa. Institutional Reforms and Peacebuilding Change, Path-Dependency and Societal Divisions in Post-War Communities. (pp. 218-236) edited by Ansorg, N. and Kurtenbach, S.. Abingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315545219
Boege, Volker (2016). Incompatibility, substitution or complementarity? Interrogating relationships between international, state and non-state peace agents in post-conflict Solomon Islands. Post-liberal peace transitions: between peace formation and state formation. (pp. 197-216) edited by Oliver P. Richmond and Sandra Pogodda. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Boege, Volker (2016). Peace in the Pacific: grounded in local custom, adapting to change. The Palgrave handbook of disciplinary and regional approaches to peace. (pp. 476-488) edited by Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda and Jasmin Ramovic. New York, NY, United States: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-40761-0_37
Böge, Volker (2013). Challenges and pitfalls of resettlement: Pacific experiences. Disentangling Migration and Climate Change: Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights. (pp. 165-182) edited by Thomas Faist and Jeanette Schade. Dordrech, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6208-4
Boege, Volker and Franks, Daniel M. (2012). Reopening and developing mines in post-conflict settings : The challenge of company-community relations. High-value natural resources and post-conflict peacebuilding. (pp. 87-120) edited by Päivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad. London, U.K.: Earthscan.
Boege, Volker (2012). Hybrid forms of peace and order on a South Sea Island: experiences from Bougainville (Papua New Guinea). Hybrid forms of peace: From everyday agency to post- liberalism. (pp. 88-106) edited by Oliver P. Richmond and Audra Mitchell. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Boege, Volker (2011). Potential and limits of traditional approaches in peacebuilding. Advancing Conflict Transformation. The Berghof Handbook II. (pp. 431-457) edited by Beatrix Austin, Martina Fischer, Hans-Joachim Giessmann and Berghof Forschungszentrum für Konstruktive Konfliktbearbeitung. Farmington Hills, MI, United States: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
Boege, Volker and Garasu, Lorraine (2011). Bougainville: A source of inspiration for conflict resolution. Mediating across difference: Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution. (pp. 163-182) edited by Roland Bleiker and Morgan Brigg. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.
Brown, M. Anne, Boege, Volker, Clements, Kevin P. and Nolan, Anna (2010). Challenging statebuilding as peacebuilding: Working with hybrid political orders to build peace. Palgrave advances in peacebuilding: Critical developments and approaches. (pp. 99-115) edited by Oliver P. Richmond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Boege, Volker, Brown, M. Anne, Clements, Kevin and Nolan, Anna (2009). Gobernanza y ciudadania en los ordenes politicos hibridos: un cambio de perspective en la nocion de construcdcion del Estado. Crisis Y Cambio En La Sociedad Global (Translation - On hybrid political orders and energy states in building peace in the absence of states). (pp. 63-81) edited by Manuela Mesa. Madrid Spain: Ceipaz.
Boege, Volker (2009). Transboundary water governance in regions of weak statehood. Transboundary Water Governance in Southern Africa. (pp. 31-46) edited by Larry A Swatuk and Lars Wirkus. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Brown, Anne, Boege, Volker and Nolan, Anna (2009). Security issues of the Pacific islands. The Far East and Australasia 2010. (pp. 934-944) edited by Lynn Daniel. London: Routledge.
Boege, V. and Christie, P. (2009). Learning in a post-conflict environment: The case of Bougainville. Learning to live together: Using distance education for community peacebuilding. (pp. 97-210) edited by Rawwida Baksh and Tanyss Munro. Vancouver, Canada: Commonwealth of Learning.
Boege, Volker (2009). Challenging the Weberian concept of the state: Lessons learned from a far-away south sea island. Overcoming armed violence in a complex world: Essays in honour of Herbert Wulf. (pp. 205-222) edited by Michael Brzoska and Axel Krohn. Opladen, Germany: Budrich UniPress.
Brown, M. A., Boege, V. and Nolan, A. (2007). Security issues of the Pacific Islands. The Far East and Australasia 2008. (pp. 900-909) edited by Daniel, L.. London: Routledge.
Boege, V. H. (2006). Traditional approaches to conflict transformation - potentials and limits. Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. (pp. 1-21) edited by D. Bloomfield, M. Fischer and B. Schmelzle. Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management.
Wirkus, L. and Volker Boege (2006). Transboundary water management on Africa's international rivers and lakes: current state and experiences. Transboundary Water Management in Africa: Challenges for Development Cooperation. (pp. 11-102) edited by Scheumann, W. & Neubert, S.. Germany: German Development Institute (DIE).
Boege, V H (2006). Friedenskonsolidierung in Nachkriegslagen. Konflikte und Krisen in Ozeanien. (pp. 126-147) edited by Boege, V., Lohmann, J., Seib, R., Struck-Garbe and M.. Neuendettelsau: Pazifik-Netzwerk.
Boege, V H and Turner, M. (2006). Access to freshwater and conflict prevention, management and resolution in Africa. Conflict Prevention, management and reduction in Africa. (pp. 243-279) edited by Owen Greene, Julia Buxton and Charly Salonius-Pasternak. Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
Boege, V H (2006). Bougainville - Gewaltordnung jenseits von Markt und Staat. Gewaltordnungen bewaffneter Gruppen. (pp. 312-326) edited by Jutta Bakonyi, Stephan Hensell and Jens Siegelberg. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
Boege, V H (2006). Salomonen: Kein "Neuer Krieg" (aber auch kein alter). Krisenregion Sdostasien. (pp. 101-119) edited by Michael Waibel, Rolf Jordan and helmut Schneider. Bad honnef: Horlemann Verlag.
Boege, V H (2006). Die rolle der privatwirtschaft in gewaltkonflikten. Jahrbuch Menschenrechte. (pp. 87-96) edited by Volkmar Deile, Franz-Josef Hutter, Sabine Kurtenbach and Carsten Tessmer. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Boege, V. (2005). A glass half full or half empty? Water, conflict and cooperation in Southern Africa. Resource Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. (pp. 273-304) edited by Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler. Hamburg: Institut fur Afrika-Kunde.
Boege, V. (2005). Konfliktbearbeitung auf melanesisch. Geschichten aus der Friedensbewegung - Persönliches und Politisches. (pp. 189-193) edited by von Andreas Buro. Koen: Komitee fur Grundrechte und Demokratie.
Boege, V. and Fischer, M (2005). Strategien der Friedensfrderung. Die geschlechterdimension in der Bearbeitung innerstaatlicher Gewaltkonflikte. Frieden - Gewalt - Geschlecht. (pp. 317-343) edited by Jennifer A. Davy, Karen Hagemann and Ute Katzel. Essen: Klartext Verlag.
Boege, V. (2005). The challenge of war economies: The role of the international community and civil society organisations. Transforming War Economies. Dilemmas and Strategies. (pp. 63-68) edited by Dr Martina Fischer and Beatrix Schmelzle. Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management.
Boege, V. (2005). Conflicts and resources. Conversion Survey 2005. (pp. 71-83) edited by Moira Davidson-Seger. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
Journal Articles
Boege, Volker (2022). Rio Tinto and Bougainville – a fatal connection. a mine, a war, and an uncertain future. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 68 (1), 18-35. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12724
Boege, Volker (2022). Climate change, conflict and peace in the Pacific: challenges and a Pacific way forward. Peace Review, 34 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/10402659.2022.2023424
Boege, Volker and Hunt, Charles T (2020). On ‘travelling traditions’: emplaced security in Liberia and Vanuatu. Cooperation and Conflict, 55 (4), 001083672095448-517. doi: 10.1177/0010836720954480
Boege, Volker and Rinck, Patricia (2019). The local/international interface in peacebuilding: experiences from Bougainville and Sierra Leone. International Peacekeeping, 26 (2), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/13533312.2018.1561185
Boege, Volker (2019). The rambutan, the chopper and the broken spear: Peacebuilding on bougainville as a cross-cultural exchange. Peacebuilding, 7 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2018.1491274
Boege, Volker (2019). Reconciliations (Melanesian style) and transitional justice. Global Change, Peace and Security, 31 (2), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/14781158.2019.1563776
Boege, Volker (2019). Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2018. Contemporary Pacific, 31 (2), 519-527. doi: 10.1353/cp.2019.0030
Boege, Volker (2018). Bougainville [Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2017]. Contemporary Pacific, 30 (2), 482-492. doi: 10.1353/cp.2018.0036
Boege, Volker (2014). Vying for legitimacy in post-conflict situations: the Bougainville case. Peacebuilding, 2 (3), 237-252. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2014.887616
Boege, Volker (2013). Peacebuilding on Bougainville: international intervention meets local resilience. Global Dialogues (2), 36-43.
Franks, Daniel and Boege, Volker (2011). The sticky question of Libya's oil. The Drum
Boege, Volker (2010). How to maintain peace and security in a post-conflict hybrid political order - The case of Bougainville. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 14 (3-4), 330-352. doi: 10.1163/187541110X504382
Boege, Volker, Brown, M. Anne, Clements, Kevin P. and Nolan, Anna (2009). On hybrid political orders and emerging states: What is failing – states in the global south or research and politics in the West?. Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation Dialogue Series (8), 15-35.
Boege, Volker (2009). Peacebuilding and State Formation in Post-Conflict Bougainville. Peace Review, 21 (1), 29-37. doi: 10.1080/10402650802690037
Boege, Volker, Brown, Anne and Clements, Kevin (2009). Hybrid political orders, not fragile states. Peace Review, 21 (1), 13-21. doi: 10.1080/10402650802689997
Böge, Volker (2009). Zivile konfliktbearbeitung in der Suedsee [Conflict Transformation in the South Seas]. Wissenschaft und Frieden [Science and Peace], 62 (4), 47-50.
Boege, Volker, Brown, Anne, Clements, Kevin and Nolan, Anna (2009). Building peace and political community in hybrid political orders. International Peacekeeping, 16 (5), 599-615. doi: 10.1080/13533310903303248
Boege, Volker, Brown, Anne, Clements, Kevin and Nolan, Anna (2009). Undressing the Emperor: a reply to our discussants. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series (8), 87-93.
Boege, Volker (2008). A promising liaison: kastom and state in Bougainville. Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies: The Occasional Papers Series, x (12), 1-54.
Boege, V. H. (2008). What is failing: states in the South or research and politics in the West?. ACPACS Newsletter, 10-12.
Boege, Volker, Brown, M. Anne, Clements, Kevin P. and Nolan, Anna (2008). States emerging from hybrid political orders: Pacific experiences The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Occasional Papers Series.. Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. The Occasional Papers, x (11), 1-41.
Boege, Volker (2008). Bougainville. Krieg, Friedenskonsolidierung und Staatsbildung (Bougainville. War, Peacebuilding and State Formation). Pazifik-Informationsstelle (Pacific Observatory) (84), 1-17.
Boege, Volker (2008). Traditionale Metoden der Konfliktbearbeitung - Moglichkeiten und Grenzen. Perspektive Mediation (3), 116-123.
Boege, Volker, Brown, Anne, Clements, Kevin and Nolan, Anna (2008). On hybrid political orders and emerging states: What is failing - states in the global south or research and politics in the west?. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series (8), 15-35.
Boege, V. (2007). Traditional approaches to conflict transformation - potentials and limits. Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. The Occasional Papers, 2007 (5), 1-22.
Boege, V. (2007). Ressourcen und Konflikt. Tabellarische Uebersicht ausgewaehlter Faelle aus den Bereichen extraktive Industrien, Wald- und Wasserwirtschaft. Bonn International Center for Conversion (43S)
Boege, V. (2007). Das BP Tangguh Erdgasprojekt in West-Papua/Indonesien. Bonn International Center for Conversion (59S), 1-59.
Clements, K. P., Boege, V., Brown, A., Foley, W. and Nolan, A. (2007). State building reconsidered: The role of hybridity in the formation of political order. Political Science, 59 (1), 45-56. doi: 10.1177/003231870705900106
Boege, V. (2007). Australische apartheid ohne ende?. Blätter für deutsche und internatinale Politik, 545-548.
Boege, V. (2007). Erfolgreiche Friedens - konsolidierung im Südpazifik: Traditionale konfliktbearbeitung auf Bougainville. Perspektive Mediation, 4, 206-211.
Boege, V H (2006). Friedenskonsolidierung in Bougainville. der berblick (2), 80-83.
Boege, V H (2006). Australischer Hinterhof. Blätter für deutsche und internatinale Politik (7), 798-802.
Boege, V H (2006). Militaerintervention und anhaltende unruhen auf den Salomon-Inseln. Friedensforum, 19 (3), 33-35.
Boege, V H (2006). Unterdrueckung und widerstand in West-Papua. Friedensforum, 19 (3), 31-33.
Boege, V H (2006). Friedenskonsolidierung auf Bougainville - eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Friedensforum, 19 (3), 35-37.
Boege, V H (2006). Australien und der Suedpazifik: Hilfssheriff in der wasserwueste. Friedensforum, 19 (3), 23-25.
Boege, V H (2006). Environmental degradation, natural resources and violent conflict. The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Newsletter, May 2006, 19-19.
Boege, V H (2006). Bougainville and the discovery of slowness: An unhirried approach to state-building in the Pacific. Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies: The Occasional Papers Series, 3, 1-46.
Boege, V. (2005). Visitors report. The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Newsletter, 9-9.
Boege, Volker, Fitzpatrick, Christopher, Jaspers, Willem and Paes, Wolf-Christian (2005). Who's minding the store ? The business of Private, Public and Civil Actors in Zones of Conflict. Bonn International Centre for Conversion Brief 32, 32, 1-93.
Boege, V. (2005). Australien: Durchmarsch der Konservativen?. Blätter für deutsche und internatinale Politik, 50 (9), 1052-1055.
Conference Papers
Boege, Volker (2011). Challenges and pitfalls of resettlement measures: Experiences in the Pacific region. Environmental Change and Migration: From Vulnerabilities to Capabilities, Bad Salzuflen, Germany, 5 - 9 December 2010. Bielefeld, Germany: University of Bielefeld.
Boege, Volker (2009). Oekologisch induzierte Gewaltkonflikte in Zeiten des Klimawandels (Environmentally induced violent conflicts in times of climate change). 24. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung fuer Politische Wissenschaft, Kiel, Germany, 21-25 September 2009.
Boege, Volker (2009). Legitimacy in hybrid political orders - an underestimated dimension of peacebuilding and state formation. European Consortium of Political Research Conference, Potsdam, 10-12 September 2009.
Boege, Volker (2009). Kastom in violent conflict and in peace building in contemporary Bougainville. The Second Conference of the International Society for Cultural History : Cultures of violence and conflict, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia, 20-23 July 2009.
Boege, Volker (2009). Democracy and custom - Incompatibilities or complementarities? Legitimacy issues in Pacific democracies. 11th PIPSA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 3-4 December 2009.
Boege, V. and Wirkus, L. (2005). An introduction to the workshop. International Workshop Koblez, Koblez, 10-11 March 2005. Germany: IHP/HWRP Germany.
Boege, Volker (2005). Summary and Conclusion. Australia's New Foreign Policy in the Pacific Region, University of Hamburg, 26-27 November 2004. Pazifik-Informationsstelle.
Reference Entry
Research Reports
Wirkus, L. and Boege, V. (2005). Afrikas internationale Flsse und Seen. Bonn, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik.