Wednesday 17 June

Theme 3: Sámi law in reindeer herding legislations and governance in Nordic countries

Moderator: Leena Hansen

08.30-09.00   What Counts as Damage? The Applicability of Swedish Compensation Law to Damage in Reindeer Herding

Berit Söderfalk

09.00-09.30   The accelerating ‘green transition’ in Sápmi: the importance of landscape planning and Sámi traditional knowledge – focusing on Sweden and Finland

Christina Allard

09.30-10.00   Coffee/tea break

10.00-10.30   Discussion and comparative reflections (Theme 3)

All participants

Theme 4: (Human) rights-based approach to recognition of Sámi rights in the ‘green transition’ narrative

Moderator: Kamrul Hossain

10.30-11.00   Framing Indigenous Struggles in Terms of Human Rights: Sámi Resistance in Times of Reconciliation

Johanna Ohlsson and Carola Lingaas

11.00-11.30   Interaction between the Rights of the Sámi People and Norway’s approaches to the Green Energy Transition

Berit J. Ballari

11.30-12.00   Advance Possession in Expropriation in Light of Indigenous Cultural Rights and the Right to a Healthy Environment

Øyvind Ravna

12:00-13:00   Lunch

13:00-13:30   Environmental Restorative Justice and Sámi Norm Systems: Reframing Indigenous Knowledge in the Nordic Green Transition

Sara Fusco

13:30-14:00   Discussion and comparative reflections

All participants

Master’s students’ presentations

Moderator: Margherita Poto

14:00-14:30   Increase in Mineral Extraction as Projects of National Interest in Norway and British Columbia: Lessons that can be learned from one another's systems to strengthen the rights of indigenous peoples in the process

Helena Wuehrer, Master's student (Joint Nordic Master's Program in Environmental Law, UiT)

14:30-15:00   Indigenous Rights in Mining Operations: Comparative Insights from the Nussir Copper Project in Norway and the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh

Md Asafe Du Daula, Master's student (Joint Nordic Master's Program in Environmental Law, UiT)

Theme 5: Towards the Future

Moderator: Endalew Enyew

15.:00-15:30   To Reform the Indigenous Peoples’ Worlds: The Metamorphosis of Free Prior and Informed Consent at the World Bank

Dorothee Cambou

15:30-16:00   Reshaping Futures Through the Lessons Learned in the Arctic and Beyond

Margherita Paola Poto

16:00-16:30   Discussion and comparative reflections

All participants

16:30-17:30   Open discussion: Comparative reflections – Building blocks for the NKJ policy brief

Moderator: Christina Allard and Kamrul Hossain

17:30   End of seminar