Edward Wolfers is an emeritus professor of politics at Australia’s University of Wollongong. His groundbreaking book, Race Relations and Colonial Rule in Papua New Guinea, based on a dispatch he wrote while an ICWA fellow from 1967 to 1971, was republished in 2017. Ted was involved in successive Papua New Guinea (PNG) governments and contributed to the Bougainville Peace Agreement process, which ended a decade of armed conflict with secessionist forces on the eponymous island. He has served on the United Nations Panel on Opportunity and Participation, had served as an expert at seminars of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, has been involved in World Bank roundtables and parliamentary committees and was an adviser to PNG delegations to the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council. In 2002, Ted was appointed PNG’s Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George for public service, and in 2007, the Companion of the Order of the Star of Melanesia. His other awards include PNG’s Independence Medal in 1977 and the 30th Independence Anniversary Medal in 2006.