Professor 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 is Chair of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Security, Conflict and Democratization and leads a number of international research projects on global ethnicity and global security. He is a former Fulbright senior fellow at UCLA, Duke University and Georgetown University and has interdisciplinary interests in security, ethnicity, geopolitics, affirmative action, development, social protection, conflict and peace-building.