Current Announcements

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.

The majority of the displaced people are in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. The fighting between Tuareg rebel groups and government forces in the region in northern Mali Azawad began in mid-January. "These past three weeks, at least 10,000 people have crossed the border into Niger. Some 9,000 of them found refuge in Mauritania and 3,000 in Burkina Faso," said a UNHCR spokesman, Adrian Edwards, during a press conference in Geneva.

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.

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.

IUAES 2012 Inter-Congress Notification and Call for Papers

The 2012 IUAES Inter-Congress, titled Children and Youth in a Changing World, is now calling for papers. The congress is being organised by the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood. It will be held November 26-30, 2012, at KIIT University in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Please see the PDF prospectus and session ideas list for full information.

The 2012 Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) is a multi-disciplinary international conference on “Children and Youth in a Changing World”. We will examine childhood cross-culturally and historically to gain the richest and best-informed perspective for looking at children in the present and moving forward. The Inter-congress will be organised by the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood in Bhubaneswar, India during November 26-30, 2012. The principal aim of this congress is to bring anthropologists in academia, governmental organisations, nongovernmental organisations and agencies working on and with children from different parts of the world and offer them a common platform to address various emerging issues relating to children and childhood.

Volume 14.2 of Nomadic Peoples to be released

The latest issue of Nomadic Peoples, a special issue on Disarmament as Development in Karamoja, shall be released on the Berghahn Journals Website in the coming weeks. Please see our PDF flyer for complete details on the issue, including abstracts for each of the articles.

2011 IUAES Inter-congress to be held in Perth

The IUAES Inter-congress 2011 will be held at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia between July 5-8 2011 It will be jointly held with Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa / New Zealand (ASAANZ), two member associations of the WCAA. Its theme is This 'Knowledge and Value in the Globalising World: Disentangling Dichotomies, Querying Unities'. You will find more information on the webpage of IUAES at http://www.glocol.osaka-u.ac.jp/iuaes/ in addition to the conference link on the webpage of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia indicated here: http://www.anthropology.arts.uwa.edu.au/.