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- SSHRC Roundtable
Research Involving Aboriginal Peoples
November 29, 2002
The Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training sponsored
Kelly Bannister to participate in a Roundtable on Research Involving
Aboriginal Peoples, hosted by the Social Science and Research Council
of Canada (SSHRC). Policy recommendations for new funding initiatives
in this research area are to be made to the Council in early summer
2002.
- Poster presentation
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference
November 26-28, 2002
The Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training sponsored
Anne Morgan (Toquaht First Nation) and Kelly Bannister (Community-University
Connections) to present a collaborative poster at the Aboriginal Policy
Research conference in Ottawa, Ontario. The poster was in both printed
and electronic forms and highlighted the Clayoquot Alliance for Research,
Education and Training's “Protocols Project” and “Nuu-chah-nulth
Language Project.
Click here to view a PDF
of the poster.
- Science Symposium
The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust
November 17-19, 2002
The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust organised a three-day Science Symposium
for the communities of the Clayoquot Sound region at the Tin Wis resort
in Tofino. On Day 1, researchers supported by
the Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training reported
on the outcomes of their studies. On Day 2, presentations and discussions
revolved around forest certification and sustainable forestry. On
Day 3, presentations and discussions focused on aquaculture and fisheries
management issues.
At the conclusion of the symposium, a special dinner hosted by the
Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training was held on
November 19th, to celebrate the accomplishments to date on the Clayoquot
Alliance for Research, Education and Training’s “Protocols
Project”.
The dinner was opened with a prayer by Levi Martin of the Tla-o-qui-aht
First Nation (on whose territory the event took place). Guests were
welcomed by Stan Boychuk (Executive Director of
the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust). Participants in the Protocols Project
were thanked for their contributions by Dr. Rod Dobell (Professor
of Public Policy at UVic and Principle Investigator on
the Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training) and Dr.
Kelly Bannister (Community-University Connections, UVic). Nelson Keitlah
and Jack Little (both of the Ahousaht First Nation) honored the guests
with stories, words of wisdom and a song.
The dinner reflected the spirit of collaboration between community
and university members through opportunities provided by the Clayoquot
Alliance for Research, Education and Training.
Click here for an outline
of the science symposium.
A CD of the presentations is available from the Clayoquot
Biosphere Trust.
- Symposium on Indigenous Culture, Heritage and Intellectual
Property Rights
World’s Indigenous Peoples Conference.
October 16-19, 2002
On October 16, 2002, Dr Kelly Bannister organised and chaired a session
on “Indigenous Culture, Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights”
for the World’s Indigenous Peoples Conference in Kelowna, BC.
Bryce Gilroy-Scott provided technical assistance for the session and
transcription of the presentations for preparation of a Proceedings
to be made available in 2003.
The session was sponsored in part by the Clayoquot Alliance for Research,
Education and Training.
Click here for a description
of the session and list of presentations.
Click here for link to the conference
to access all abstracts of the presentations.
- Workshop and Paper Presentation
9th International Congress of Ethnobiology
September 16-19, 2002
The Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training and the
MCRI Coasts Under Stress Project sponsored Dr. Kelly Bannister to
lead a workshop and present a paper at the 8th International Congress
of Ethnobiology in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Click here for an abstract
of the paper “Ethnobiological Research: On Whose Terms?”
Click here for a description
of the workshop “Community Protocols"
- Panel presentation:
Native American capacity-building conference
May 5-9, 2002
The Community-University Connections' work on Indigenous community
protocols was presented by Dr. Kelly Bannister in a session on Indigenous
Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights, at the First Nations Development
Institute's 12th
Oweesta Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Session Title:
"Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights"
Panel members: Linda Delaney, Hawai'i (Cultural Heritage and Repatriation);
David Stephenson, Colorado (Commercial Law); and Kelly Bannister,
Victoria (Community Protocols) with Jo Render, Washington, DC (Chair).
Click here to view an
abstract of the session.
- Panel Presentation:
Coastal Community Networking Conference
May 2-4, 2002
A group presentation by Clayoquot Sound region community members
and UVic researchers was made at one of the dialogue sessions of the
10th Coastal Communities
Network Conference in Port Alberni, BC. The session was organised
by Community-University Connections on behalf of the Clayoquot Alliance
for Research, Education and Training.
Session Title:
"The Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training".
Presenters: R. Dobell (Public
Administration); S. Boychuck (Clayoquot Biosphere Trust); S. Harron
(Clayoquot Alliance, Ucluelet); K. Bannister (Community-University
Connections, University of Victoria); A. Morgan (Toquaht First Nation);
and G. Schreiber (Clayoquot Alliance, Ucluelet).
Click here to view an
abstract of the session.
Click here to view a summary
of the session.
- Seminars:
UC Davis Cross-Disciplinary Forum on Ecological Ethics
April 2-4, 2002
Dr. Kelly Bannister was the featured speaker at a week-long cross-disciplinary
forum on ecological ethics at the University of California, Davis
April 2-4 2002, Davis, California. The forum included a Roundtable
Discussion on the Protection of Rights and Resources of Native
Communities (April 2, 2002), a Panel for Women Ethnobotanists
(April 3, 2002) and two seminars given by Dr. Bannister:
Seminar 1:
"Ethnobotany and Bioprospecting: Biological and Cultural Impacts,
Legal and Ethical Issues"
Cross-disciplinary Forum on Ecological Ethics, April 5, 2002.
Click here to view an
abstract of the seminar.
Seminar 2:
"Community-University Research Collaborations: On Whose Terms?"
Cross-disciplinary Forum on Ecological Ethics, April 4, 2002.
Click here to view an
abstract of the seminar.
The forum was organised by Ms. Jeannine Pfeiffer of the Ethnobotanical
Conservation Organization for South East
Asia. The forum succeeded in drawing over 125+ participants comprising
a diverse group of UC Davis students, staff and faculty from over
twenty departments and on-campus institutes as well as representatives
from off-campus agencies and members of the general public.
The forum was generously sponsored by the following groups:
Consortium for Women and Research; Genetic Resources Conservation
Program; Graduate Group in Ecology; Ethnobotanical Conservation Organization
for South East Asia; International House of Davis; International Agricultural
Development Graduate Group; Plant Biology Graduate Group.
Food for the events was donated by the Davis Food Co-op.
- Panel Presentation: Community-Based Research
March 14-16, 2002
The collaborative work to date on community research protocols was
presented by Dr. Kelly Bannister during a panel presentation at the
B.C. Community Forestry Forum.
March 14-16, 2002, Victoria. This international forum was organised
by the International
Forests and Communities Network, which is also an initiative of
the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance.
Session Title:
"Ropeburns and Realities: The Process of Community-Based Research"
Panel Members: Darcy Mitchell, Royal Roads University, Kelly Vodden,
SFU, and Kelly Bannister, UVic, with Shawn Morford, SIFERP (Chair).
Click here to view an
abstract of the session.
- Legal Conference and Indigenous Networking Conference
Feb 21-24, 2002
A collaborative paper was prepared on behalf of the World Indigenous
Coalition for ActioN (WICAN) by Ms. JO Render of First Nations Development
Institute and Dr. Kelly Bannister of Community-University Connections
for the Indigenous Peoples' Global Conference Feb 21-24, 2002 held
at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
Paper Title:
"The World Indigenous Coalition for ActioN (WICAN): A tool to
promote understanding and respect for the core values of traditional
and Indigenous peoples."
Click here to view a PDF
file of the paper.
Over the same dates, Dr. Kelly Bannister was also able to attend a
legal conference on Traditional
Knowledge, Intellectual Property and Indigenous Culture, February
21-22, 2002. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University,
New York, NY.
- Public Workshops on Collaborative Research Protocols
November 26-27, 2001; February 12, 2002; and October 30, 2002
In collaboration with the Clayoquot
Alliance for Research, Education and Training, Community-University
Connections organised and facilitated three public workshops in Tofino
and Ucluelet on development of research protocols and guidelines for
research in the Clayoquot Sound Region (see Protocols
Project).
Click to view a PDF file
of the Protocols Project Workshop Notes:
Workshop 1, November 26 and 27, 2001:
Best
Ways of Sharing Knowledge and Wisdom
Workshop 2, February 12, 2002:
Identifying
the Starting Points for Agreement
- Community Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights
January 9, 2002
Dr. Kelly Bannister was invited by the North Thompson Indian Band
to hold a community workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Chuchua,
B.C. The workshop was arranged by Sid Jules (North Thompson Capacity
Initiative Coordinator) and facilitated by Judy Steves (District Planner
and Aboriginal Liaison, Kamloops District Forestry Service). The workshop
was attended by members of the Secwepemc First Nation, and representatives
from government and non-government organisations and industry.
Click here to read an
article on this workshop in the LINK newsletter of the Forest
Research Extension Partnership.
- Panel Presentation
and Workshop:
Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
May 28-June 1, 2001
This session was part of the Building
Bridges with Traditional Knowledge Summit Meeting hosted by the
University of Hawai'i (Honolulu) and sponsored by the Society
for Economic Botany. The IPR Working Group was held in honour
of Dr. Darrell Addison Posey, a world-renown ethnobotanist and Indigenous
rights advocate and founder of the Programme for Traditional Resource
Rights (Oxford Centre for Environment, Ethics and Society) who sadly
passed away in March 2001.
The IPR Working Group met
to discuss issues related to intellectual property rights and protection
of the traditional knowledge of Indigenous and local communities.
Panel members included: Mr. Maui Solomon of Aotearoa (co-moderator),
Ms. Aroha Te Pareake Mead of Aotearoa (co-moderator), Mr. Alejandro
Argumedo of Peru, Dr. Elaine Elisabetsky of Brasil, Dr. David Stephenson
Jr. of U.S.A, and Dr. Kelly Bannister of Canada (facilitator). A new
international Indigenous peoples' intellectual property rights/traditional
resource rights advocacy group called the World Indigenous Coalition
for ActioN (WICAN) was established as an outcome of the session.
Click to view a PDF file of the IPR Working Group session,
Summary Notes 1 (May 28, 2002)
Summary Notes 2 (May
29-31, 2001).
- Roundtable Discussion:
The North American Pharmaceutical Industry and Research Involving
Indigenous Knowledge
May 17-18, 2001
This multi-stakeholder roundtable was organised by First
Nations Development Institute/First
Peoples Worldwide as part of their Corporate
Engagement Strategy for protection of Indigenous peoples' rights.
The roundtable was hosted by the public interest law student group
headed by Dr. Russel Barsh of New York University School of Law. The
objective was to forge a new, constructive dialogue between Indigenous
communities and outside commercial forces. The meeting was chaired
by Ms. Rebecca Adamson and facilitated by Ms. JO Render and Ms. Kristyna
Bishop, all of the First Nations Development Institute. The co-presenters
in a session on Research Perspectives included Mr. Tuma Young of the
Mi'kmaq Nation, Dr. Maurice Iwu of the Bioresources
Development and Conservation Programme, and Dr. Kelly Bannister
of UVic.
- Workshop:
Adaptive Management and Sustainable Communities
May 8-11, 2001
This workshop was developed in collaboration with the Policy Research
Secretariat (Ottawa), The Centre
for Public Sector Studies (UVic) and the Clayoquot
Biosphere Trust (Tofino). The workshop explored how the principles
of adaptive management can help to address urgent issues facing communities
that are in transition from a resource-based to a more diversified
economy. Presentations, discussions, and field trips were held at
the University of Victoria, and in locations throughout Clayoquot
Sound. Participants included community members, First Nations representatives,
University faculty and government representatives.
Community-University Connections
facilitated a panel presentation and discussion on "New Approaches
to Making Resource Policy: Ideas on Integrating Traditional Ecological
Knowledge, Local Knowledge and Conventional Science in Resource Management".
Panel members included: Dr. Richard Atleo (UMEEK) of the First
Nations Studies Department at Malaspina University College, Ms.
Crystal Sutherland formerly of Long
Beach Model Forest Society, Dr. Nancy Turner of the School
of Environmental Studies at UVic, Dr. Katherine Barrett of the
Eco-Research Chair at UVic, and Dr. Kelly Bannister of Community-University
Connections at UVic (session chair). A summary of the workshop is
available as a Special Issue of the Horizons newsletter (Vol.
4 Special Issue December 2001) of the Policy Research Initiative.
- Discussion Panel:
Community Knowledge in Environmental Decision-Making
February 27, 2001
This panel was co-organised by Community-University Connections in
collaboration with several community-based researchers and practitioners
in the U.S.A. It was presented at the Taking
Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science and Environment conference
held at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
Panel members included:
Timothy Ingalsbee of the Western Fire Ecology Center, Dr. Robert Tucker
of the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association, Dr. Katherine
Barrett of UVic, Dr. Kelly Bannister of UVic and Dr. Tracie-Lynn Nadeau
of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Wetlands Division (session chair).
Presenters outlined three case studies of community-based research,
and discussion focused on three key questions: How is scientific information
communicated between community members and researchers in government
and academia? How does the process of generating information and conducting
research affect the way in which results are integrated into regional,
federal and international policy-making? How can communication and
collaboration be improved to support mutual learning and address complex
social and environmental issues? These session papers will be included
as case studies in a future publication on collaborative community-based
research.
Click here to view an
abstract of the session.
- Community Health Workshop
on Mould
January 30, 2001
This workshop was hosted by the Ahousaht First Nation (Flores Island)
and sponsored by the Sh'ulh-etun Heath Society (Chemainus). Community-University
Connections staff were invited to attend the workshop to learn about
the serious environmental and human health problems, financial expenses
and social disruption (due to relocations) caused by excessive growth
of mould in the reserve houses. Is there a role for University researchers
in addressing the mould problem of Ahousaht and other communities?
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