Peau Halapua is co-author of Global Democracy as Talanoa: A Pacific Perspective.

Peau, b.1976, holds a MMus with Honours (New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2002) and a Grad Cert Bus. (Auckland University of Technology, 2007). She is a research assistant and editor upon the Talanoa process Fiji in 2002- 4 and 2008, and Tonga Political Reform in 2006 and 2009. She is a founding trustee of the not-for-profit Talanoa and Development Project, 2009.
 

For the past five years, my efforts to contribute to the development of my father’s thinking about talanoa has centred on the capacity of storytelling to provide criteria for the evaluation of conflicts between different moralities of collective identities in the Pacific. The opportunity to extend thinking about talanoa beyond conflict dynamics to ideas of democracy, against which people commonly express and measure the value of interrelations between groups in a global context, is the challenge we have taken on with the BGD proposal. I look forward to a stimulating environment of rigorous review and debate with scholars and activists from around the world.

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