“Indigenous Participation in Policy-making: Ideals, Realities and Possibilities.”

Sunday 24.10.2010

20.00: Reception at Árdna, the Sámi cultural building located at the University campus, close to “Labyrinten”, The Sámi turf hut and the Administration building.
21.30: Bus departure from the University to Radisson Blu Hotel

Monday 25.10.2010

Opening of conference
08.30: Taxi/Bus departure from Radisson Blu hotel to the University
08.45-09.15: Registration, at University Campus, Teorifagbygget, Hus 1, Auditorium 1.
09.15-09.25: Opening by rector at the University of Tromsø: Jarle Aarbakke
09.25-09.40: Egil Olli, President of the Sami Parliament, Norway: “Title to be announced.
09.40-10.00: Opening by Tone Bleie, Chair, Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples: “Indigenous Participation in Policy-making: Ideals, Realities and Possibilities.”

Session 1:

Introduction: Stetting the Agenda
10.00-10.30: Jeronimo Lancerio, Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala: “Indigenous Participation in Policy-making: Experiences from Guatemala.”
10.30-11.00: To be announced.
11.00-11.30: Discussion.
11.30-11.45: Coffee
11.45-12.15: John Bernhard Henriksen, “The Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”: “Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Participate in Decision-Making”.
12.15-12.45: Joan Carling, Secretary General, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact: “The right to Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Policy Making and Development.”
12.45-13.15: Discussion
13.15-14.30: Lunch
14.15-14.45: Magne Ove Varsi, Galdu: “The Sami Parliament- its relevance as a model in democratic and undemocratic states”.
14.45-15.15: Tone Bleie. Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples: “State sovereignty, human rights and peoples participation in Asia”.
15.15-15.45: Discussion
15.45-16.00: Coffee.

Session 2:

The Realities of Participation in Different Regions.
16.00-16.30: Joseph Ole Simel, Mainyoito Pastoralist Integrated Development (MPIDO), Kenya: To be announced.
16.30-16.50: Else Grete Broderstad, University of Tromsø: “Indigenous rights and citizenship rights: contradictory or coherent?”.
16.50-17.10: Eva Josefsen, Norut (Northern Research Institute): “The Finnmark Act and afterward – Sámi Political influence under different premises”.
17.10-17.30: Ole-Bjørn Fossbakk, University of Tromsø: ”Below the public policy surface: Local reality and popular resistance against the Finnmark Act”.
17.30-18.00: Discussion
18.15: Bus departure from the University to Radisson Blu hotel

20.00: Dinner at Radisson Blu Hotel

Tuesday 26.10.2010

Session 2 continues:
The Realities of Participation in Different Regions.

08.30: Taxi/Bus departure from Radisson Blu hotel to the University Campus.
09.00-09.30: Jeff Rafa of ALAMIN, Philippines: “The situation for Indigenous Peoples at Mindoro Island”.
09.30-10.00: Cathal Doyle, University of Middlesex: ”The effectiveness of legal and non-legal remedies for addressing the rights of Indigenous Peoples at Mindoro Island and elsewhere”.
10.00-10.30: Mukta Lama Tamang, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University: “Indigenous peoples’ movement and challenges of ILO C 169 implementation in Nepal”.
10.30-11.00: Discussion
11.00-11.15: Coffee
11.15-11.30: Introductions
11.30 -12.45: Urgent priorities for realising participation
Roundtable discussion by the Expert Mechanism, MFA/Norad, AIPP, IWGIA, Galdu, Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) and present representatives of national indigenous organizations.

Forum update

12.45-13.00: Anna Maria C. Lundberg, The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), University of Oslo: “Regional National Autonomy in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), – a means of effective participation?”. To be confirmed.

13.00-14.00: Lunch

Forum update continues

14.00-14.15: Ingrid Hovda Lien, The project “Democracy and Indigenous Rights” (between UiT and Sami University College): “Indigenous movements in Guatemala and Bolivia – different experiences in making the multicultural democracy work?”.
14.15-14.30: Ragnhild Therese Nordvik, SAIH: “Intercultural gender perspective in higher education in Latin America – summary from conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia”.

Summing up

14.30-15.00: Summing up
15.00-15.15: Closure of the Forum Conference 2010.