Contestations over Land in Plural Legal Regimes
As a part of the 2024 Bergen Exchanges, we got an update on the preliminary findings within the PluriLand project.
Social Media and Democracy: Influence, Distortion and Resistance
Are you confident in your ability to identify fake news? Do you believe disinformation is a significant challenge in today’s world? And what about the ethical implications when political figures manipulate facts? Join us for an engaging student-led panel discussion
PluriLand Workshop 2024: Mexico City
At the beginning of this month, PluriLand organised a workshop at the Institute of Legal Research at Mexico’s National Autonomous University to discuss advances in the team’s research and gain generous feedback from experts in the field. In this two-day workshop, PluriLand reviewed the work that has been accomplished so far with the project, and […]
Gendered Autocratization. PhD Conference 21-22 March with open and streamed keynotes and roundtables.
Are you a PhD student and interested in the politics of gender and sexual and reproductive rights? This 2-day Conference-format PhD course is for you. Taking place on 21- 22 March 2024 at the University of Bergen in Norway, it provides the opportunity to listen to and engage with experts in the field, present and […]
PluriLand: researching competing legal orders in contestations over land
A Bergen Exchanges 2023 event. Indigenous and traditional land rights are protected in many legal systems. Still, conflicts over land affecting vulnerable communities are rapidly escalating across the globe and are often highly transnational.
Contesting Indigenous Rights Against Climate Change Policies
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 17:15-18:15 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Climate change mitigation and adaptation policies – such as development of energy sources to replace fossil fuels – are almost invariably land-demanding. And hydroelectric dams and windmill parks are often constructed on land belonging to and used by indigenous peoples, resulting in conflicts where indigenous peoples’ […]
Plural Governance: When Do Indigenous Rights Prevail?
Minority protection is a central element of constitutional democracy – and vulnerable minorities are particularly at risk when populists mobilize against liberal-democratic constraints on power.
Annual Lecture on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Date: 5 February 2021 Time: 15.00:16.30 Norwegian time (8.00-9.30 a.m. Guatemala time) Venue: Zoom/Youtube To celebrate the Sami National Day, LawTransform, in collaboration with the Bergen Sami Society, invites you the 4th Annual Lecture on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Francisco Calí Tzay, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples will speak […]
Divine Intervention: The role of the Pentecostal Church in Democratic Backlash in Africa
Date, time: 4 December 2020, 16.00-17.00 Venue: Zoom To what extent has the Pentecostal church shaped politics in sub-Saharan states? To what extent is the church a part of the current wave of democratic backlash? Is the church even a part of this backlash? After a widespread demand for human rights and economic prosperity in […]
Webinar: PluriLand: Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes
Date, time: 14 August 2020, 15.00-16.30 Webinar Join us at the launch of new LawTransform project PluriLand! #BeEx2020 Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/65680043430?pwd=RUhESzJ1dGY5TzJ1YVJUTUZQaWhxZz09 Password: pN$d2EGz / 98289416 Project will run from August 2020 to 2023. It aims to develop a theory of land rights claiming in plural legal regimes through cross-regional investigation of conflicts over land […]