The webinar “Pathways to Customary Land & Forest Rights in the Mekong” took place on July 2nd, 2024. This was the second webinar in the series ‘State of Land in the Mekong region’ which aims to highlight the evolving environment of land governance in this dynamic region, including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam. The webinar attracted 240 participants and featured experts from the Mekong region. The webinar was organized by the Land Portal Foundation and the Mekong Region Land Governance and drew on findings from research and activities conducted by the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) Project and its partners on the recognition and formalization of customary tenure rights across the Mekong region.
Opportunity: SOLIndex Consultancy
Terminology: Majority World or Global South?
We appreciated all of the people who took the time to leave comments, write emails, and take the poll. We heard you, and based on what we heard, we won’t be making any wholesale changes right now in how we refer to countries and regions that have historically been left out of economic and industrialized development. We are particularly sensitive to the idea that the term Majority World could, as Rafael wrote, “perpetuate a notion that could undermine the importance of minority groups. It appears to replicate the very idea that the worth or relevance of a group is tied to its size, which is a concept many of us are striving to move away from, especially those of us engaged in addressing the vulnerabilities of minority populations.”
Terminología: ¿Mundo Mayoritario o Sur Global?
Agradecemos a todas las personas que han dedicado su tiempo a dejar comentarios, escribir correos electrónicos y participar en la encuesta. Las hemos escuchado y, basándonos en lo que nos han dicho, no vamos a hacer ningún cambio radical en la forma de referirnos a los países y regiones que históricamente han quedado al margen del desarrollo económico e industrializado. Somos especialmente sensibles a la idea de que el término Mundo Mayoritario podría, como escribió Rafael, "perpetuar una noción que podría socavar la importancia de los grupos minoritarios". Parece replicar la idea de que la valía o relevancia de un grupo está ligada a su tamaño, que es un concepto del que muchos de nosotros nos esforzamos por alejarnos, especialmente los que nos dedicamos a abordar las vulnerabilidades de las poblaciones minoritarias".
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Recent events
Eighth India Land and Development Conference, ILDC 2024
The Eighth India Land and Development Conference, ILDC 2024 will be organised from 5-7 November 2024 at FLAME University, Pune, India.
New York Climate Week 2024
Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online.
Recent blogs
Keynote Speech from Bram Büscher: Deepening Social Justice
Speaking truth to power is an art, but increasingly a lost art. This goes as much for academia as for the rest of the world. Indeed and unfortunately, much of academia reflects the world in which it functions and often makes the challenge of deepening social justice harder rather than smaller. To put it bluntly, much of academia has resorted to instrumental and naïve beliefs in innovation, technology and efficiency (which dominate the natural sciences) or (as in much of the social-economic sciences) increasingly arcane niche debates that too often revolve around virtue-signalling, methodological-theoretical wizardry or apolitical pragmatism. What we seem to have lost to a good degree – though to be sure: it was never a dominant endeavour and at the same time it has never been absent either – is the art of speaking truth to power.