We’re excited to share the final blog in our Fourth World Journal: Volume 24, Winter Issue series! In this issue, Martha L. Schmidt, CWIS Board Member, reviews Elizabeth Esterling’s monograph…
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Presenting more highlights from our new Fourth World Journal, Winter 2025 Issue, we want to showcase Marine Gauthier’s article “Re-territorializing Climate Governance: The REDD+ Initiatives in the DR Congo” Gauthier’s…
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As scholars of Indigenous studies, we are continually renegotiating what decolonization means in practice. Can so-called “decolonized” states perpetrate colonialism themselves? We are excited to present another one of our…
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We’re excited to continue our post series, where we share articles and video abstracts from the brilliant scholars featured in the recently released Fourth World Journal (FWJ), Volume 24, Issue…
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We are excited to present our latest blog series celebrating the launch of the Fourth World Journal: Volume 24(2), Winter 2025 Issue. In this edition, our remarkable contributors delve into…
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How can the exercise of global indigenous sovereignty counter the growing destruction caused by the climate crisis? A 2012 interview with CWIS founder Dr. Rudolph Rÿser, republished in our most…
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The Yezidi nation of Ezidikhan, in collaboration with 90 indigenous nations globally and talks with states, has since 2018 been laying the foundation for a permanent Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal (NICT) with the planned expectation that the Tribunal may be established in Yezidi territory inside Armenia as early as 2023.
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At the end of 2021, more than 89 million people have been forcibly displaced because of persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations. Fourth World nations have themselves on which to depend in defending against these myriad crises.
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A conversation with Ezidikhan Justice Minister Nallein Sowilo and Prime Minister Barjis Soso Khalaf. The Center’s mission advances the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide. We provide direct support to the…
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The Kurdish Regional Government, in an effort to forcibly dominate and take control of Ezidikhan, has threatened the life of the Yezidis’ supreme spiritual leader the Baba Shiekh Khurto Hajji Ismail and his son Samir Baba Sheikh.
Read moreThe library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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