Colombia’s Frontline Environmental Defenders: Afro-Colombians and the Pacific Coast
With its exceptional biodiversity and unique ecosystems, Colombia holds significant importance for conservation. Within the country, the unique perspective and historical ties to the natural environment make Afro-Colombians leaders in land stewardship, forest conservation, community-based conservation, and traditional knowledge. As global efforts to protect biodiversity and address the climate and biodiversity crises, meaningful engagement with Indigenous and marginalized communities — like the Afro-Colombians in regions such as Chocó, Valle de Cauca, and Nariño departments — is key to ensuring sustainable and effective responses at every level of decision-making.
Please join us on Wednesday, July 19 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (ET) as the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program and Environmental Change and Security Program, in partnership with the Embassy of Colombia and USAID, host a dialogue on the role of environmental defenders in Colombia’s Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities.
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more