Movie and Roundtable in the Resource Centre.

"Crude" - on extractive industries and indigenous land rights.

Date: 11 March
Time: 16:00
Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Juss 2, Jekteviksbakken 31

In different parts of the world, communities denounce the loss (expropriation) or pollution of their land as a result of the onset of projects to exploit natural resources through mining, forest exploitation, Oil drilling and intensive agriculture.

 In different parts of the world, communities denounce the loss (expropriation) or pollution of their land as a result of the onset of projects to exploit natural resources through mining, forest exploitation, Oil drilling and intensive agriculture.

Such situations have raised debates in different countries:
- on the relationships between the state, citizens and businesses related to natural resources exploitation
- on the relation between extractive industries and development
- and between the right to land of some small (often indigenous) groups and the right of the "rest of the country" to access the benefits that can result from natural resource extraction.

We will focus on the conflicts between extractive industries and land rights of indigenous/rural populationby showing the film "Crude," followed by a roundtable debate.