2012 - English - Academic
Demanding Free, Prior and Informed Consent Acr…
This article discusses a workshop that was conducted in Colombia in partnership between a U.S. based grassroots organization called Witness for Peace (WfP) and local community activists in Guatemala and Colombia. In the workshop, Guatemalans who had successfully been using FPIC to withhold their consent to development projects, taught the Colombia…
2013 - English - Practical
Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples and the Conce…
This paper discusses various contemporary issues surrounding human rights, Indigenous peoples and their relationship with the extractive industries, focusing on the Brazilian context.
2012 - English - Practical
Civil Society Participation in International D…
This article looks that the fact that while a number of positive steps have been taken to allow indigenous peoples the possibility to take part in relevant intergovernmental decision-making processes, there’s a need to provide their own self-governing institutions and organisations with a more influential status than that granted to civil society …
2013 - English - Practical
An Analysis of Factors Leading to the Establis…
In an effort to identify key determinants of SLO outcomes in the mining industry, this paper presents a comparative case study analysis of four international mining operations: Red Dog Mine in Alaska, USA; Minto Mine in Yukon, Canada; the proposed Tambogrande Mine in Peru; and the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea.
2014 - English - Practical
Maintaining Legitimacy of a Contested Practice…
This article presents findings of interviews with 16 managers in the minerals industry in Australia. It explores how these managers conceptualise social licence in relation to notions such as legitimacy, approval, and consent, how they interpret processes of social licence in practice, and how they differentiate it from concepts such as CSR.
2013 - English - Practical
The Paths to Social Licence to Operate: An Int…
This article attempts to understand how a social licence to operate in mining is granted and maintained, and it looks at the processes mining companies use to engage with local communities in a case study in Australia.