To be published April 2012
INDIGENOUS NATIONS AND MODERN STATES
320 pages
Published by Routledge
In this volume Rudolph C. Ryser describes how indigenous peoples transformed themselves from anthropological curiosities into politically influential voices in domestic and international deliberations affecting everyone on the planet. He reveals in documentary detail how since the 1970s indigenous peoples politically formed governing authorities over peoples, territories and resources raising important questions and offering new solutions to profound challenges to human life.
CWIS Announcements
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November 12, 2011
New Book by Rudolph Ryser
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October 13, 2011
Mirjam Hirch earns Doctorate - Traditional Medicine Policy
Mirjam Hirch, a former CWIS Intern, present Fellow and Associate Scholar was awarded her doctorate in Traditional Medicine Policy and geography in from the Universität zu Köln, Cologne, NRW, Germany. Dr. Mirjam Hirch is a resident of Darmstadt, Germany. She will be publishing an essay from her research with the Fourth World Journal in its Winter issue 2011. -
August 26, 2011
CWIS Chair, Fulbright Scholar
CWIS Board Chair Rudolph Ryser joined 11 Fulbright Scholars for a three-day orientation in Mexico City beginning 23 August hosted by the Mexico-US Commission (COMEXUS) for Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholars. Dr. Ryser begins his research in Jalisco, Mexico in October -
June 12, 2011
Quinault Nation on UNDRIP - US Senate Hearing
Quinault President Fawn Sharp spoke
before the US Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs on 9 June calling for the
United States to \\\\\\\"adopt policies
and
enact legislation as necessary to
effectuate the principles enunciated in
the Declaration, particularly those
relating to free, prior, and informed
consent, protection of intellectual
property rights.\\\\\\\" President
Sharp\\\\\\\'s full
testimony is available here. -
March 03, 2011
CWIS Partners with UN Nairobi Work Program
The Center for World Indigenous Studies has been invited and has accepted to "partner" with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the Nairobi Work Program. The Nairobi Work Program Program focuses on adaptation, assessment methodologies, and the range of vulnerabilities appropriate to local, regional and international environments. You are invited to join this process.
What this means: The Center for World Indigenous Studies, as a part of its efforts to address food security, climate refugees, land tenure policies and implementation of relevant parts of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. CWIS research and policy development outcomes in these and related issues will then be documented and reported by the UNFCCC-Nairobi Work Program and shared with partners as well as states' government parties, international non-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, research institutes and the in-country private sector.
October 27, 2010cwis.org Has Been Launched!
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