TDP Philosophy

Our thinking on talanoa is given in a number of publications:

Walking the Knife-edged Pathways to Peace

Halapua, S 2003, Inaugural Public Lecture of the Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara Friendship Foundation

Halapua, S 2007, SGI Quarterly: The Possibilities of Dialogue

Global Democracy as Talanoa: A Pacific Perspective (ABSTRACT)

Halapua, S., and Peau Halapua (forthcoming in Conceptualizing Global Democracy, A Project of 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)

Talanoa ʻa e Kafataha: Mahino mo e Fakakaukau Kakato

Halapua, S 2014, Talanoa & Development Project Press, Auckland

“Talanoa: Measure of Relative Human Values in Global Cooperation” S. Halapua. In Jan Aart Scholte (ed.) Global Cooperation Through Cultural Diversity: Remaking Democracy? Global Dialogues 8, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg 2015.

For our perspective on the issues of sustainable development, please see:

Harmonising resources for sustainable economic development in the Pacific Islands context

Halapua, S., 1997, in B Burt & C Clerk (eds.), Environment and Development in the Pacific Islands, National Centre for Development Studies, Canberra & University of Papua New Guinea Press, Port Moresby, pp.22-29.

TDP Philosophy

What matters is a working notion of an acceptable moral balance that has all the identifying characteristics of the different moral claims ‘…the conventional development model, followed by governments in our shared Pacific Islands region, is fundamentally inadequate for addressing the broad social, economic, environmental, political, and cultural development needs confronting the Pacific Islands today…the present approach to development in the Pacific Islands requires fundamental reframing and redirection’

(Halapua, S. Environment and Development in the Pacific Islands, chapter 2).