Side event in Alta 11 June: Indigenous self-determination: Why an implementation gap? Top-down or bottom-up challenges?
Workshop: Self-Determination: Indigenous self-determination: Why an implementation gap? Top-down or bottom-up challenges?
Where: Room Rolvsøy, Høgskolen i Finnmark, Alta.
When: Tuesday 11 june 2013, time 13.00-15.00.
Organizer: University of Tromsø/Finnmark University College.
Responsible: Else-Grete Broderstad
Self-determination is a key concept in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Relating to indigenous societies and ways of life, the Declaration encompasses both individual and collective rights such as land rights, environmental rights and cultural rights. A cornerstone of UNDRIP is its article 3, which affirms that “Indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.” Simultaneously, challenges of practical implementations are brought to life. What does it mean that indigenous peoples have the right to exercise self-determination? What challenges appear due to the different models of or top-down or bottom-up approaches to implementation of self-determination? Furthermore; what does self-determination imply - seen from two different empirical situations – the context of a local Sami community and the Russian North? These questions are the topic of this two-hour side event, concluding with a plenary discussion. Everybody is welcome.
Program
13.00-13.05: Welcome by Ms. Else Grete Broderstad, academic director at the Centre for Sami Studies, University of Tromsø
13.05-13.20: Implementing indigenous self-determination, what does it mean? Mr. Les Malezer, former chair of the Global Indigenous Coordinating Group for the Declaration
13.20-13.35: Implementing indigenous self-determination: limitations and possibilities of a non-territorial model by Mr. Jarle Weigård, associate professor, University of Tromsø
13.35-13.50: Coffee break
13.50-14.05: Implementing indigenous self-determination: top down or bottom up challenges? by Ms. Eva Josefsen, senior researcher, Northern Research Institute (NORUT), Álta
14.05-14.20: Implementing indigenous self-determination: Implications seen from a local Sami community perspective by Ms. Silje Muotka, chair of the Álta Sami Association
14.20-14.35: Implementing indigenous self-determination in the Russian North by Mr. Dmitry Berezkov, student, University of Tromsø
14.35-15.00: Plenary discussion
Se also the sideevent 10 June organized by the Forum for Development cooperation with Indigenous Peoples here.
More Information about international preparatory conference in Alta, Norway, 8-12 June 2013 here
