Our current development project involves building a prototype sailing passenger/cargo boat for the Niua islands communities of Tonga to run and maintain.
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•A community driven project, involving the Niua islands communities
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•Promotes economic self-sufficiency and sustainability
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•Promotes environmental conservation
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•An innovative development prototype for other Pacific island communities.
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International Studies Association Annual Convention
18.3.2011 ‘Building Democracy as Talanoa’ was presented as part of a panel of BGD authors, with Richard Falk of Princeton University as discussant.
More about the Building Global Democracy programme
Global Democracy as Talanoa: A Pacific (Outsider) Perspective (FULL PAPER)
Halapua, S., and Peau Halapua (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association Annual Conference "Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition", Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, Mar 16, 2011)
East-West Center ‘State of the Pacific Dialogue’
25 - 26.1.2011. A talanoa based private ‘State of the Pacific Dialogue’ brought representatives from Pacific Island nations, Australia, Japan and the U.S., among others.
Facilitating talks after the civilian coup of 2000. More
Facilitating political reform since 2005. More
Rebuilding peace between communities in the Guadalcanal. More
‘Global Democracy as Talanoa: A Pacific Perspective’ was presented in the Cairo 2009 Building Global Democracy workshop. More
Dr Sitiveni Halapua: Pacific's diversity key to finding peace and prosperity
By Dr Sitiveni Halapua
5:30 AM Friday Sep 9, 2011 New Zealand Herald
Without vision, where is political reform taking Tonga? asks Dr Sitiveni Halapua
20:40 Monday, April 16, 2012 Matangi Tonga Online
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Richard A. Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, speaking about talanoa at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, 18 March 2011:
“... talanoa, which I think is an extremely valuable way of conceiving of both conflict resolution and communication, in various types. Of communication that is preoccupied with how those with different cultural and historical and identity differences – how can they talk productively together. And I think one of the insights in this idea of noa – which is in a way, to me anyway, is the most creative aspect of this – is that it provides an instructional perspective on how to listen [so] that communication can really take place. Unless one learns to listen – and this is particularly important in communication that is contaminated by hierarchy, and particularly the hierarchies of the west and the non-west, where the Imperial heritage and predispositions of the west are to talk, but not to listen; to have things to tell the other, but nothing to learn from the other. So I think that what this talanoa does is to create potential conditions for communication based on a terrain of mutuality.”
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades, most recently editing the volume International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice (Routledge, 2008).
He also served a six year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
Talanoa in Building Democracy and Governance
By Dr Sitiveni Halapua
Presented at the Conference of “Future Leaders of the Pacific” Pago Pago, American Samoa, February 4 - 7 2013
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