Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Mixed Inheritance -- PNG in the New Millennium: Some Troubled Homecomings -- A Democratic Audit for Papua New Guinea -- Enhancing Nation Building through the Provincial Government System in Papua New Guinea: Overtures toward Federalism -- PNG Defence Force: An Analysis of its Past, Present and Future Roles -- Bureaucratic Corruption in Papua New Guinea: Causes, Consequences and Remedies -- Challenges in Reporting Corruption in Newspapers -- An Appraisal of the Papua New Guinean Economy: Retrospect and Prospects -- The Future of Foreign Aid in Papua New Guinea After 25 years of Successes or Failures -- Have We Walked 'on the Clear(ed) Path'? An Assessment of the Development of Industrial Relations in Papua New Guinea -- Environment and Development in Papua New Guinea: 25 years on -- Efficient Management of Forest Resources -- The Health Problems of the 21st Century: Persisting Problems and Emerging Challenges -- Education and Development in Papua New Guinea -- Civil Society and Nation Building -- Gender and Development in Papua New Guinea -- The Role of Churches in Nation Building in Papua New Guinea -- Peace Studies as a Process of Peace Building: An Alternative Approach to Violence in PNG, 25 Years and beyond -- Problems of Housing Resources in Papua New Guinea -- Notes on Contributors -- Maps -- Index.