Dana Declaration Standing Committee

Standing Committee

The participants to the conference onMobile Peoples and Conservation requested that the steering Committee for the conference remain in post as a Standing Committee for the Dana Declaration. Several conference members were appointed to join the committee. They include:

Dawn Chatty, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK

Taghi Farvar, Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, IUCN - The World Conservation Union and CENESTA, Iran

Patricia Feeney, Rights and Accountability in Development- RAID, UK

Helen Newing, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Gonzalo Oviedo, International Consultant on People and Conservation

Adrian Phillips, Former Chair of the World Commission on Protected Areas of IUCN

Josie Weininger, Canada

If you would like to contact anyone on the Standing Committee, please send an email to: danadeclaration@qeh.ox.ac.uk

The Standing Committee is charged with, among other responsibilities, providing overall coordination of the strategy to publicize and move forward the Dana Declaration. It is expected to review quarterly the plan of action adopted by the conference including:

setting up and managing a website,
providing publicity for the Declaration in several languages,
securing the support of various bodies including the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
presenting the Declaration to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD - August 2002) and the World Parks Congress (September 2003),
promoting information exchange on mobile peoples and conservation through the setting up of an e-mail list server, and
working towards the development of a documentary film series featuring the cases discussed in the conference.

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