Good Will Hunters

Welcome to Episode 90 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today on the show I speak to Fiona Hukula, Miranda Forsyth, and Philip Gibbs. Our speakers today are on the front line of the battle against sorcery accusation related violence or SARV in Papua New Guinea. Dr Fiona Hukula is a Senior Research Fellow at the Papua New Guinea National Research Institute (PNG NRI). Fiona represents the PNG NRI on high level national committees such as the Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee and the National Action Plan against Sorcery Accusation and Related Violence. Dr Miranda Forsyth is an Associate Professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. Miranda is a chief investigator in a major four year project investigating how to best overcome sorcery accusations and related violence in PNG. Lastly, Dr Philip Gibbs is a Divine Word Missionary priest serving in Papua New Guinea since 1973. Currently he is Vice-President Research and Higher Degrees at Divine Word University, Madang