Who We Are

The Commission on Nomadic Peoples is part of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). This commission is one of a number of academic working groups of the Union which collaborates with a broad, international range of researchers on nomadic peoples. The Commission has always aspired to be inclusive - drawing in as many interested parties as possible - researchers, practitioners, government and non-government officials, and crossing language and cultural divides.

Activities

Its activities are focused on organizing conferences for the IUAES as well as facilitating other meetings and workshops. The journal of Nomadic Peoples is part of its mandate. It maintains an email distribution list for important announcements (to join the list, you may register on-line). Above all it exists to encourage international exchanges and linkages among researchers and practitioners who are interested in nomadic and pastoral populations throughout the world.

Joining the Commission

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Latest News

Volume 15.1 of Nomadic Peoples released

The latest issue of Nomadic Peoples is now available online on the Berghahn Journals Website. For complete details on the issue, including abstracts for each of the articles, please see the current issue page of this website.

Israel to forcibly evict Bedouins from West Bank

Amira Hass of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that “The Civil Administration is expected to begin forcefully moving Bedouin in the West Bank to a permanent location as part of a plan to remove all the Bedouin in Area C (under both Israel's civilian and military aegis) from lands they have been living on for decades.” Visitors may access her complete report from Haaretz's website, or from our own archive.

Volume 14.2 of Nomadic Peoples released

The latest issue of Nomadic Peoples, a special issue on Disarmament as Development in Karamoja, is now available online on the Berghahn Journals Website. For a table of contents of this issue please see the back issues page of this website.