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.

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Latest News

Dana +10 Workshop April 10-14

Ten years after the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation was agreed in Wadi Dana, Jordan, it is time to follow up on the achievements of the past decade and consider the future.  Working with the representatives of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples –WAMIP and others similar groups,  the Dana + 10 workshop  will, among other outputs, develop a statement to be delivered at the Rio+20 meetings in June 2012 to continue to  promote the  human rights of mobile indigenous people in the context of biodiversity conservation and  democratic environmental governance in the face of continuing  expansion of protected areas, land grabbing, and further dispossession. The workshop ultimately aims to continue to raise and maintain awareness of the special vulnerabilities and needs of mobile indigenous peoples. [Read the full announcement]  

Tuareg Emergency

According to UNHCR, fighting between Tuareg rebels of MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad) and government forces resumed on January 17 in Mali, in violation of an agreement concluded in 2009 that had formally ended the Tuareg rebellion.

UNHCR has deployed emergency teams in countries surrounding Mali to help take care of the needs of more than 20,000 people who were forced to flee fighting in northern Mali. [Keep Reading]

Volume 15.2 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.