Al-Moumin Award lecture: indigenous activist Patricia Gualinga

[Ken Conca]

Friends: On Tuesday, November 30, Ecuadorian indigenous and environmental activist Patricia Gualinga will deliver the lecture accompanying her receipt of the Al-Moumin Environmental Peacebuilding Award. The event will be at 12:30pm EST (GMT minus 5) via Zoom (in Spanish with simultaneous English translation). Pre-registration is required; see https://www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org/events/show/EventItem-1356 More details on her work are found below. Should be interesting!....Ken Conca

 

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The seventh Al-Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding is presented to Ms. Patricia Gualinga of Ecuador for her longstanding leadership promoting Indigenous Peoples’ rights, territorial protections, and environmental justice amidst extractive resource conflict.  For more details on Ms. Gualinga's work, please see this page. Ms. Gualinga will share insights from her environmental peacebuilding work with the Kichwa First People of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon and a global network of environmental defenders. She will be joined by discussant Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Associate Professor at American University’s School of International Service.