Meeting the challenges
A remarkable conference!

Approximately a hundred researchers and university students from all disciplines took part in the last IPG conference on October 10 and 11, 2008, in Montreal. This conference provided an opportunity for all the project researchers to present status reports on their work on indigenous governance. Over the course of the two days, about twenty researchers presented research results, allowing the assembled team members (co-researchers, associate researchers, students, collaborators) to glimpse the scope of the project and the results expected by the end of the project’s five-year term.

This conference was remarkable on a number of levels. From a scientific point of view, it was a chance to update our research work; in terms of communications, it provided researchers from different disciplines and different institutions a chance to exchange; and finally, from a pedagogical standpoint, it meant that more than 25 university students had an opportunity to work with their colleagues on further developing various concepts related to research on indigenous issues.

It should also be noted that an outstanding student conference was held on October 9, resulting in worthwhile exchanges among dozens of students involved in research on indigenous issues. These students are taking an active part in the project and are considered to be full members of the research team.

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