Contested Terrain by Steven Ratuva

Steven Ratuva is director of the Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies and professor in the department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Canterbury. He was Fulbright professor at UCLA, Duke University and Georgetown University and currently chair of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Security, Conflict and Democratization. With a Ph.D. from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Ratuva is an interdisciplinary scholar who has written or edited a number of books and published numerous papers on a range of issues including ethnicity, security, affirmative action, indigenous intellectual property, geo-political strategies, social protection, militarization, ethno-nationalism, development, peace and neo-liberalism. He has been a consultant and advisor for a number of international organizations such as UNDP, International Labour Organization, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Commonwealth Secretariat and Asian Development Bank and has worked in a number of universities around the world including Australia, US, New Zealand, Fiji and UK.