In September 2011 Bolivian police raided an encampment of several hundred indigenous people gathered to protest the government’s plan to build a road through their lands. The violence of this...

Resumen: En el presente artículo sostengo que los bloqueos recientes de Tarija proporcionan importantes señales de los vínculos existentes entre las políticas autonómicas y las políticas de recursos naturales dentro...

With the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996 Guatemala's credentials of democratic governance was re-established, but as media reports and the international community have observed, the killing and crimes...

This paper outlines and discusses the contrasting histories of inclusion and contestation associated with the introduction of neoliberal and multicultural policies in Bolivia and Guatemala. In drawing out and discussing...

Travelling and working beyond the boundaries of their traditional communities, rural populations in the Andean Highlands have never really fitted with earlier categorizations of peasants as easily definable, harmonious and...

In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural...

Este volumen explora las relaciones entre las pluralidades legales y la justicia e injusticia de género. Se propone ir más allá de los debates en torno a los contextos de...

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether...

The impact of the oil and gas industry – paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development – is a question at the heart of the...

Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous...

This book aims to offer a closer look at local flexible strategies for securing water resources under demandong climatic conditions and during environmental changes. The research dealt with here aims...

En los más diversos contextos geográficos existen múltiples factores que configuran un patrón que vincula de manera compleja a pueblos indígenas y pobreza. Las comunidades indígenas no tienen las mismas...

With the world record in coup d'états[i] and a modern history of revolution and repeated uprisings it can also too easy to dismiss Bolivia not only as a recent state...

In this thematic paper I will reconsider the connections between natural resources and conflict. Aimed at producing a state of the art review of the research on the connections between...

Sammen med Danida, gjennomførte Norad i 2008 en gjennomgang av IWGIAs organisasjon og virksomhet som grunnlag for vurdering av videre samarbeid med organisasjonen. Om IWGIAIWGIA er en av de viktigste internasjonale...

The evaluation concludes that the cooperation with SAIH has strengthened the UACs as higher education institutions with particular focus on indigenous peoples. The evaluation underlines that a range of improvements...

Respondiendo a los términos de referencia elaborados por SAIH para este estudio, las preguntas principales incluidas es esta evaluación son: ¿En qué medida la cooperación de SAIH fortaleció las UACs...

Spanish version As part of Norway's efforts to strengthen its cooperation with indigenous peoples a set of Guidelines were published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004. The Guidelines...

Colombia appears to be fast approaching an agreement on a set of peace accords ending an armed conflict that has lasted over 55 years. In this CMI Working paper, we...

Colombian president Juan Manual Santos has claimed a new approach to security politics in the violence-ridden South American nation. This Insight reviews Santos’ approach to civil military relations, and suggests...

McNeish's PhD thesis concerns the social, political and economic impacts of Administrative Decentralisation and Popular Participation reforms in Highland Bolivia

Panel debate. Civil-military relations in Latin America and the Middle East. What will the future bring?                      John McNeish (NMBU), Elin Skaar (CMI), Kjetil Selvik (CMI), Kristina Mani (Oberlin), Sverre Johan...