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International Indigenous Community Safety Seminar

The presentations of the speakers during the Seminar are available online.

 

 

The International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) organized a technical seminar: International Indigenous Community Safety Seminar, with the support of the National Crime Prevention Centre (Public Safety Canada) and Justice Canada. The Seminar considered recent progress, challenges and current and emerging approaches relating to community safety among Indigenous populations. The event took place in Montreal from March 27 to 29, 2011

 

Key indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders from seven countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, South Africa and the United States)  took part in the seminar. They included representatives of government and non-government organizations, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, health and police services and local authorities. 

 

The seminar presentations highlighted challenges and trends, and identified best practice models and methodologies from different settings, regions and countries, and identified specific models of intervention and information activities that focused on innovative and alternative measures to reduce and prevent violence, incarceration and victimization of Indigenous peoples.

Download Programme (Agenda, Speaker Biographies, Presentation description...)

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Keynote address –  Katharine Irngaut, Acting Director for Sisters in Spirit, Native Women's Association of Canada
Breaking the Silence: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada

 

Session I - Youth and Children

 

• McClellan Hall, Founder and Executive Director, National Indian Youth Leadership Project, United States of America
  Project Venture
• Chris Heide and a youth, Coordinator of Making Connections for Youth, Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada
  Youth intervention and diversion outreach program
• Jackie Anderson, Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, Manitoba, Canada
  The Most at Risk - Innovative Programming for Aboriginal Children and Youth whom are victims of Sexual Exploitation
• Ted Nelson, Vice-President, National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) Board of Directors,
  Indigenous Child Safety in the U.S. : A Tribal Perspective
• Elizabeth De Beurs, Principal (Tuakau Primary School), New Zealand
  Safe Schools/Safe Communities

 

Session II - Urban Indigenous populations

 

• Jeff Cyr, Executive Director, National Association of Friendship Centres, Canada
  Canada’s Urban Indigenous Communities
• Nakuset, Executive Director, Native Women's Shelter, and Co-Chair Montreal Urban Aboriginal Strategy Network, Canada
  The Resilience of Urban Aboriginals
• Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director for the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, U.S.
  The U.S. Urban Indigenous Population:  Characteristics, Concerns, and Governance Arrangements
• Julie-Ann Tomiak, Senior Policy Analyst, Assembly of First Nations, Canada
  Enhancing Community Safety and Security for Urban First Nation Citizens

 

Session III - Evaluation frameworks

 

• Andrea Johnston, CEO of Johnston Research Inc., Toronto, Canada
  Conducting meaningful evaluation; the Tending the Fire Evaluation Framework

 

Session IV - Holistic approaches to safety

 

• Sharon Payne, Assistant Manager, Law and Justice Section, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Australia
  Place-based justice initiatives in Australia
• Marilyn Brewin, Research Programme Leader, Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, Maori Centre of Research Excellence, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  "By Maori for Maori" a whanau approach
• Sandra Tucker, Manager, Abuse Prevention Policy and Programs, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
  Somebody’s Daughter Model and the Inuit Shelter Training model

 

FILM - Third World Canada 
Andree Cazabon, Filmmaker, Cazabon Productions
Third World Canada Film presentation and Discussion

 
Session V - Holistic approaches to safety

 

• Rodrigo Elizarrarás, Mexico
  Domestic, political and communitarian violence, and indigenous communities in Mexico
• Laura Beacroft , Research Manager , Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia
  Recent Research to Support Improved Community Safety for Indigenous People in Australia
• Britt Elin Hætta Isaksen, Police Chief Inspector, Norway Police Directorate, Norway
  Riding the Sami language roller coaster
• Chief Stan Grier, Chief of Police, Tsuu T'ina Nation Police Service, Canada
  Community Policing in Canada’s First Nations Communities from “Self-Administered First Nations Policing Services” – An Overview
• Alicia Abanto, Program Manager, Pueblos Indígenas de la Defensoría del Pueblo, Peru
  Indigenous peoples in Peru: Situation of their right to  health, education, participation, land and natural resources
  

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