The virtual event “Cycles of intercultural dialogue in the mining context”, organized by the Alliance for Responsible Mining in collaboration with WWF Colombia, Foro Nacional por Colombia Chapter Central Region, the Dialogue Group on Mining in Colombia and with the support of the Ford Foundation, will be developed in a total of 18 virtual sessions, one per week, and will bring together leaders, students and public officials working on mining issues in Colombia with special emphasis on ethnic territories.

Mining in ethnic territories is an issue in which ancestral practices, territorial rights, economic interests, environmental protection, land use planning, human rights, among other issues, converge, and is therefore not free of controversy and debate. An example of this is the tensions surrounding the full and transparent implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consultation and Consent when authorizing mining projects (national and international) in ethnic territories and the current lack of an adequate legal and institutional framework, resulting from an authentic intercultural dialogue, for the use and exploitation of minerals by ethnic groups.

Cycle III: Conservation and Diversification in Pacific Mining Territories