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Paper short abstract:

Kalam of PNG are fringe highlanders who were fierce warriors. They have adapted their traditional social control tools to post pacification peace keeping methodologies both at home and in town settlements.

Paper long abstract:

I deal with three case histories one in Kalam territory, one in Madang and one in Lae. These illustrate the Kalam community values and methodologies for dealing with intergroup conflict. I relate these to Kalam traditional and modern identity and self image and speculate on some of the background causes.