For Indigenous peoples, conflict means so much more than war

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The article covers a United Nations discussion in Geneva this week, where Indigenous delegates presented a draft study to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The study argues that conflict facing Indigenous communities extends beyond armed warfare to include militarization, land dispossession, forced displacement, and structural violence tied to colonization and resource extraction. Speakers from Guatemala, New Zealand, and the Pacific territory of New Caledonia (called Kanaky by the Kanak people) described how colonial-era harms continue to shape their communities today, even decades after formal conflicts ended.

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