essay
Keeping the peace in an island world: the Sama Dilaut of Southeast Asia
keeping the peace: conflict resolution and peaceful societies around the world • (8) • Published In 2004 • Pages: 123-147
By: Sather, Clifford.
Abstract
This exploration of the social and cultural mechanisms by which a boat-dwelling Sama-Bajau community maintained internal peace and order emphasizes the community’s longstanding experience of resolving disputes and grievances through publicly spoken words instead of physical violence. Maintaining the peace was made possible through a corpus of collectively enforceable norms governing social relations and individual behavior in different domains of life. Community elders played important roles in averting violence by providing means for offenders to flee or find shelter, if only by remaining strictly silent until a reconciliation is reached.
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem
- Field Date
- 1964-1965, 1974, 1979, 1995
- Coverage Date
- 1880-1995
- Coverage Place
- Semporna district, Sabah, Malaysia
- Notes
- Clifford Sather
- LCCN
- 2003008813
- LCSH
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)