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Wayfinding Through ‘Nuku Yara Ni Siga’: Dravuni Island’s Legendary War Cry

What is Wayfinding? Wayfinding is essentially knowing where you are, where you are headed, how to get there, how to recognise when you are there, and when needed, how to find your way back out of a place. Wayfinding enables problem solving and moving around spaces by using consistent environmental clues. ‘Nuku Yara Ni siga…

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  • About
    • C.V
    • Kingfisher Consultancy
  • Contact
  • Contemporary Dravuni
    • Dravuni – Rural Village Economy
  • Creative Pursuits
    • Collaboration with Tiana Carling (2024)
    • Dravuni: Sivia yani na Vunilagi – Beyond the Horizon (2016)
    • My Origin Story (2015)
  • Diplomatic Reflections
    • 1993 World Conference on Human Rights
    • ACP-EC’s pre-meet Sparring proves to no Avail
    • Belgium Prepares for EC Presidency
    • Morality? Leave God out of it.
    • Turmoil gripped the EC in March 1993 – But the ACP States were not to be spared
  • Dravuni Development Committee
    • DDC Update (2009)
    • DDC Update (2017)
  • History
    • Who was Ravuravu?
      • Ravuravu – Mentor and Protector
  • Islands Business Articles
    • 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent: A Sea Change?
    • 2050 Strategy is Essentially Political
    • A New Pacific Consciousness: Pushing the Envelope
    • Addressing Increasing Inequality
    • Advancing Regional Integration
    • Aligning to Blue Pacific: Pacific Reset Steps Up
    • Blandness Debilitates Regionalism
    • Boosting the Pacific Aid for Trade Strategy (PAfTS 2020-2025)
    • Changing Prescription for Regional Leadership
    • COP26 at the Micro Level
    • Death of Pacific Regionalism?
    • Declaration on U.S.-Pacific Partnership Abrogates Established Order
    • Delving Into PICTA
    • Derogation of State Power to the Region Not an Option
    • EDF can fast-track PICTA
    • Figuring Out PIF’s Support for the Multilateral Trading System (MTS)
    • Fiji Making Amends in Pacific Regionalism
    • FIPIC Reaffirms Silver Lining
    • Forum in Limbo?
    • Framing a ‘New Pacific Consciousness’
    • Geostrategic Alignment Nightmare
    • IAEA: What about Risk Management?
    • Inclusivity is Expedient for PACER Plus
    • Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States: Too Anodyne to be Utilitarian
    • It is Back to the Drawing-board for PIF after the Setback of COP25
    • Kainaki II ‘Climate Change Crisis’ Needs ‘outside the box’ Solution
    • Making Sense of Multi-Layered Security Frameworks
    • Managing Leadership for Pacific Regionalism
    • Nakao’s Whirlwind Visit a Timely Reminder
    • NIEO: Learn from History
    • Pacific Island Countries (PICs) in the wake as Australia Makes Waves: But there are Better Options.
    • Pacific Islands Forum Identity May Need Re-focusing
    • Pacific Regionalism and Astrology: Alignment Defies Logic
    • Pacific Regionalism: To Hell with Drowning
    • PICTA in the Slow Lane
    • PICTA – Picture of Indifference
    • Post-COP26 at the Micro Level
    • Probing Political Analysis Needed for 2050 Strategy
    • Putting the Case Forward for Pacific Integration
    • Re-Negotiated PACER Plus for Post-Covid-19 Pacific Regionalism
    • Reimagining Pacific Regionalism
    • Republic 0f Korea – Pacific Islands Relations Step-Up
    • Rules-based Order: Whose Order?
    • Strategic Manipulation: Was it a Faux Pas?
    • Strengthening Pacific Regionalism for Robust Globalism
    • The Low-down on USP
    • Tongan Volcanic Eruptions: Prompting Resilience
    • United States of the Pacific
    • What is to Become of Pacific Regionalism?
    • What is to become of USP?
    • Why PHAMA Plus Matters to the Pacific
    • ‘Enduring Colonization’ Raises Vexatious Questions for PIF/PIFS
  • Legends
    • Taunovo and Tautaumolau
    • The Tale of Ravouvou and Raluve iVanuakula
  • Navusalevu Investment Co Ltd
    • Mataqali Navusalevu Engaged in Village Development Projects
  • Pacific and Regionalism
  • Poetry
    • Bulou
  • Reflections
    • A Touch of Kindness Instead of Being Punitive
    • All is Forgiven Despite Breach of Trust
    • An Early Premonition
    • Confronting Poverty with Stoicism Plus
    • Dream of Substance
    • Early Christian Converts were Natural Theists – the Trend Continues
    • Gambling My Last Penny Away
    • It was a Triple Hit in 1959: the Prospect for the Same in Future Remains High
    • Loneliness: A Means to Aloneness
    • Night Fishing: Was it a Case of ‘Red Sun at Night, Sailor’s Delight?’
    • O My Traditional Skills, Where Art Thou?
    • Once was Heyday of Respectability
    • Reliving My Most Embarrassing Moment?  
    • The ‘Saqa’ That Defies Death
    • Whilst school variables were critical, antecedent factors played effective supportive role

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