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Total Gun Ban, Weapon Destruction Brings Peace to Troubled Pacific Nation
23 February 2009
BBC News
HONIARA, Solomon Islands — A parliamentary panel in the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific, is debating the future of an Australian-led peacekeeping force. The UN has praised it as a model of regional intervention — but is its work now done?
The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) is not one of the world's best-known peacekeeping forces.
But the story of how peace has been built here, in this former British protectorate, is largely a story... (GunPolicy.org)