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- Meeting review: UNU-IAS symposium on ethical and legal implications of TK studies
- Meeting review: 2011 Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples
- Resources: Articles on indigenous contribution to climate research, climate change impacts on indigenous peoples
- Resource: DoCIP update 97-98
- Resource: Book on Inuit understandings of climate change
Meeting review: UNU-IAS symposium on ethical and legal implications of TK studies Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:06 PM PST Owning Inheritance: Ethical and Legal Implications of Traditional Knowledge Studies In the last twenty years or so, academics, industries, lawyers, and policymakers have become increasingly aware that locally sustained knowledge and wisdom can help enhance our coping strategies for rapidly changing environmental conditions. Hasty actions to test this hypothesis by researchers and industries have created ethical and legal problems with indigenous and local communities, especially regarding the questions as to who owns locally sustained knowledge and wisdom and to what extent researchers and industries can take advantage of local co-operation. This symposium gathered experts who have worked extensively with indigenous and local communities for research, who shared their experience and reflected on the future of research related to traditional knowledge/wisdom. Among the speakers, Dianne C. Newell presented three studies on TK in First Nations Communities on coastal British Columbia; Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana presented on TK and transdisciplinarity; Noemi Miyasaka Porro addressed the issue of traditional communities as "subject of rights" and the commoditization of knowledge; and Kenichi Matsui addressed questions regarding who defines and who protects TK. Visit the event's website, including links to archived video and audio presentations … |
Meeting review: 2011 Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:03 PM PST 12th Annual Conference of the Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples The report of the 2011 Conference of the Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, coordinated by the Centre for Sámi Studies in the University of Tromsø, has been released under the title "Stakes Replacing Rights – New Pathways for Indigenous Peoples in Development Cooperation?" Among the speakers, Antti Korkeakivi addressed new UN initiatives on the rights of indigenous peoples; Siri Damman focused on the role of indigenous peoples in rights-based sustainable rainforest management; and Alberto Valiente Thoresen examined intercultural bilingual education in Bolivia and SAIH. Download the report of the conference [pdf] … Visit the Forum's website … |
Resources: Articles on indigenous contribution to climate research, climate change impacts on indigenous peoples Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:01 PM PST Authorship in IPCC AR5 and its implications for content: climate change and Indigenous populations in WGII This essay examines the extent to which we can expect Indigenous Knowledge, understanding, and voices on climate change ('Indigenous content') to be captured in WGII of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), based on an analysis of chapter authorship. Reviewing the publishing history of 309 chapter authors to WGII, nine (2.9%) of them have published on climate change and Indigenous populations and have been involved as authors in 6/30 chapters. Drawing upon recent scholarship highlighting how authorship affects structure and content of assessment reports, the article argues that, unaddressed, this will affect the extent to which Indigenous content is examined and assessed. While it is too late to alter the structure of AR5, there are opportunities to prioritize the recruitment of contributing authors and reviewers with expertise on Indigenous issues, raise awareness among CAs on the characteristics of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability faced by Indigenous peoples, and highlight how Indigenous perspectives can help broaden our understanding of climate change and policy interventions. Read the full text … The impact of climate change on indigenous people – the implications for the cultural, spiritual, economic and legal rights of indigenous people The aim of this article is to critically examine the impact of climate change on indigenous people and to assess the legal rights available to those communities to seek redress. Part 1 of the paper examines the catastrophic and devastating impact of climate change on indigenous people. Part 2 provides a survey of the most recent legal decisions at a national, regional and international level and provides an analysis of the emerging academic commentary in the field. Part 3 critically examines the major historical, philosophical and institutional limitations of the Western juridical tradition to protect and uphold the rights of indigenous people. As such, the focus of the paper is strictly on litigation and it does not engage with the vitally important issues of policy, mitigation and adaptation, from which, in any case, indigenous people have been largely excluded. While there have been positive developments in case law, the literature reveals that climate change litigation offers little hope for indigenous people. The article concludes by arguing that current domestic and international legal systems as presently constructed are incapable of protecting the unique rights of indigenous people and culminates in a call for the establishment of an International Court for Human Rights and an International Court for the Environment to prevent the destruction of the traditional homelands of indigenous people and the extinction of humanity's oldest people. Read the abstract … |
Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:57 PM PST Update 97-98 This issue of doCIP's Update summarizes the debates on indigenous issues at the 18th session of the Human Rights Council, including the panel focusing on indigenous peoples' cultures and languages. It also presents the summaries of the 7th, 8th and 9th sessions of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, focusing on indigenous issues. Download the issue [pdf] … |
Resource: Book on Inuit understandings of climate change Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:54 PM PST Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North Stepping outside scientific and political debates about climate change, the author engages with Inuit understanding and experiences of northern warming. By focusing on the changes currently occurring in the north, he highlights the challenges being posed to Western climate research, Canadian politics and traditional Inuit knowledge. The book aims to reveal the cultural challenges posed by global warming and advocates an intercultural response that blends indigenous and Western perspectives. Purchase the book from University of Ottawa Press … |
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