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Charlie Walker: Dead Daughter for 130 Pigs

Name: Charlie Walker: Dead Daughter for 130 Pigs
Uploaded: 2022-09-29T16:11:27+00:00
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Channel: Tyler Wagner
Description: The speaker describes the customary justice system in Papua New Guinea, where tribal courts run by village elders adjudicate disputes. After a brief…

29 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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The speaker describes the customary justice system in Papua New Guinea, where tribal courts run by village elders adjudicate disputes. After a brief government training, elders conduct public hearings that resemble a court of public opinion, listening to witnesses and deciding based on the persuasiveness of each side. These courts impose no corporal punishment or imprisonment; instead, they require the parties to negotiate compensation. The speaker illustrates this with a case where a man who killed another's daughter agrees to settle the blood feud by paying 130 pigs, highlighting the role of livestock as restorative justice.

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Papua New Guinea has been one of the more fascinating and eye-opening places that I've been. The way that most justice is meted out out there is through tribal courts. So the village elders will gather, and they've had a kind of, you know, one day of training from the government years earlier to sort of give it the veneer, I suppose, of a legitimate judicial system. And they sit down, and they sort of, in their own tribal village justice way, they hear all sides of the argument, and a decision is made. But it's just based on who's more compelling or convincing, or— it's run, I suppose, like a court. People come and give witness or whatever, but it is in public with everyone, court of public opinion. And then a verdict is given, and there are no punishments. There's no corporal punishment, and people aren't locked up. They just have to negotiate. Oh, killed that man's daughters. And so he says that he will settle for 130 pigs. As a price to settle the blood feud, essentially.