It was a great honor and privilege for postgraduate class HDS510 Development and Environment in the Pacific to have Professor Tarcisius Kabutaulaka – Director and Associate Professor of Centre for Pacific Island Studies at University of Hawai’i at Manoa as their guest speaker via zoom Friday 23 April 2021. Prof. Kabutaulaka’s presentation covered topics on the Natural Resources, Economic Development and Conflicts in Melanesia. He then went on to explain of the resource curse which includes: resource endowment, political stability and livelihood. The postgraduate students found the lesson very informative. Thank you Director for a very beneficial lecture and for your time.
Dr Kabutaulaka is a political scientist with a PhD from the Australian National University and undergraduate and MA degrees from the University of the South Pacific (USP). He joined the Center for Pacific Islands Studies in 2009 and has served as director since August 2018. Prior to that, he worked for six years as a Research Fellow at the East-West Center’s Pacific Islands Development Program. Before moving to Hawai’i in 2003, he taught history and political science at USP. Over the years, Kabutaulaka has also done consultancy work for governments, regional and international organizations and NGOs in the Pacific Islands. He is the editor the Pacific Islands Monograph Series (PIMS), the founding editor of Oceania Currents, and a member of the editorial board of The Contemporary Pacific. He has published extensively on the Solomon Islands civil unrest and the Australian-led regional intervention, the forestry industry in Solomon Islands, China in Oceania, and on governance issues in the Pacific Islands. He is the co-editor (with Greg Fry) of Intervention and State-building in the Pacific: the Legitimacy of ‘Cooperative Intervention’ (Manchester University Press, 2008). In 2000, following two years of conflicts in Solomon Islands, he participated in the peace talks in Townsville, Australia, as one of the chief negotiators. He is a regular commentator on Radio Australia. Kabutaulaka comes from the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands.
PROFESSOR TARCISIUS KABUTAULAKA. DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLAND STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I, MANOA
IN-CLASS SESSION. GUEST SPEAKER WITH HDS510 POSTGRADUATE CLASS GROUP PHOTO
ONE OF PROF. TARCISIUS KABUTAULAKA’S POWERPOINT SLIDE PRESENTATION
IN PROGRESS ZOOM LECURE WITH POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS LISTENING INTENTLY TO PROFESSOR KABUTAULAKA’S LECTURE
