Sitiveni Halapua, co-author of 'Global Democracy as Talanoa: A Pacific Perspective'.

Sitiveni is the Director of the Pacific Islands Development Program in the East-West Center, Hawaii, USA, and the Secretary-General of the Secretariat for the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders. He has also held positions as research associate in the Institute of Marine Resources and senior lecturer in monetary economics at the regional University of the South Pacific, Suva campus, Fiji (1981-1988).

He is the author of Fishermen of Tonga (University of the South Pacific, 1982); ‘The Role of Government in Providing Adequate Food Supply: Tariffs, Quotas, Subsidies and Other Approaches’ in R. Thaman and W.C. Clarke (eds), Food and National Development in the South Pacific (University of the South Pacific, 1984); ‘Harmonising Resources for Sustainable Economic Development in the Pacific Islands Context’ in Ben Burt and Christian Clerk (eds), Environment and Development in The Pacific Islands (The Australian National University and University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1997); co-author of Private Sector Development: Policies and Programs for the Pacific Islands (East West Center, 1993); principle co-editor of Regional Cooperation with Emphasis on Private Sector Development, Proceedings of the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders (East West Center 1992); Sustainable Development and Population, Proceedings of the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders (East West Center, 1995).

His search for an interdisciplinary framework of sustainable development inclusive of the conflicting claims of different rights and obligations has led to his developing the dialogic process of Talanoa. He has led practical applications of Talanoa in the Cook Islands (1996), Fiji (Talanoa: 2000-2004), Solomon Islands (Tok Stori: 2005) and the Kingdom of Tonga (Public Civil Servant Strike [Talanoa: 2005] and the National Committee for Political Reform [Talanoa: 2006]).

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