International Association for the Study of the Commons
The IASC is the leading professional association dedicated to the commons. The association, founded in 1989, is devoted to bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for the purpose of improving governance and management, advancing understanding, and creating sustainable solutions for commons, common-pool resources, or any other form of shared resource.
The IASC aims to:
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World Rainforest Movement
The World Rainforest Movement (WRM) is an international initiative that aims to contribute to struggles, reflections and political actions of forest-dependent peoples, indigenous, peasants and other communities in the global South. WRM is part of a global movement for social and environmental justice and respect for human and collective rights.
Its main role is to support struggles that defend the collective rights and self-determination of indigenous peoples and peasant communities who live in and with the forest over their territories, lives and cultures.
Mountain Research and Development
The overall mission of Mountain Research and Development is to foster sustainable development in mountains by supporting peer-reviewed interdisciplinary, disciplinary, and transdisciplinary research on mountains, developing scientific capacity, capitalizing on development experiences, promoting policy dialogue, and strengthening networks within the mountain community. Mountain Research and Development (MRD) is devoted to mountains and their surrounding lowlands – ecoregions of particular global importance, in which communities are often marginalized.
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Maya America/Revista Maya America is an interdisciplinary and open access journal that publishes in English and Spanish. Academic essays are double-blind peer reviewed while the creative works are peer reviewed. Authors keep full rights over their work. Although the journal takes its name from the contemporary Maya Diaspora, we also welcome essays and commentary that discuss the Americas in additional ways.
Maya America is indexed in EBSCO and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Prilaka Community Foundation
Prilaka é um movimento social em defesa dos direitos das comunidades indígenas na Nicarágua, principalmente o direito à autodeterminação, com presença ativa nas comunidades indígenas da costa norte caribenha da Nicarágua, ancestralmente conhecida como Muskitia ou Toguzgalpa. Nasceu dos esforços comunitários para se organizar em nível de base para defender os direitos coletivos e territoriais diante das invasões dos colonos e da negação de justiça pelo Estado nicaraguense, e para proteger os direitos coletivos consagrados na Constituição da Nicarágua.