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Video – Mining and Community Rights: Does Consulta Previa Promise Peace or Conflict?

An AS/COA panel discussed the efforts and new developments to improve the framework for the process and practice of community consultation in cases of natural resource investment.

Panelists:

  • Rachel Davis, Managing Director, Shift
  • Emily Greenspan, Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam America
  • Robert Thompson, Lawyer and Policy Advisor to the Peruvian Superintendent of Banks, Insurance Companies and Pension Funds
  • Christopher Sabatini, Editor-In-Chief, Americas Quarterly; Senior Director of Policy, Americas Society/Council of the Americas (Moderator)

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