ADVANCING COOPERATION AND CONSENT BETWEEN NATIONS
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non
profit [U.S. 501(c)(3)] research and education organization dedicated to
wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of
indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of
indigenous nations. The Center fosters better understanding between
peoples through the publication and distribution of literature written and
voiced by leading contributors from Fourth World Nations. An important
goal of CWIS is to establish cooperations between nations and to
democratize international relations between nations and between nations
and states. Rudolph C. Ryser (a member of the Cowlitz Tribe and Chief
George Manuel of the Shuswap Nation founded CWIS as an independent
organization in the Spring of 1984 in response to calls by the Conference
of Tribal Governments in the United States and the World Council of
Indigenous Peoples for a documents center. Concerned with the advancement
of ideas for solving social, economic and political problems in the Fourth
World, the Center For World Indigenous Studies links voluntary
contributors world-wide and conducts original research, education,
conflict resolution symposia and conferences benefiting constructive
relations between nations, and nations and states.
The Center serves as a clearinghouse of ideas between nations and between
nations and states governments. CWIS receives documents, publications and
undocumented information from throughout the world. These materials are
carefully archived. Organizations, governments, and individuals
frequently ask CWIS to provide information from Fourth World Nations or
about nations. We gather and store information and make it available. We
also promote direct exchanges of information through "people exchanges,"
encouraging direct visits between people in their territories, through
symposia, conferences and an internationally accessible computerized
bulletin board. The underlying principle guiding CWIS is: Access to
knowledge and peoples' ideas reduces the possibility of conflict and
increases the possibility of cooperation between peoples on the basis of
mutual consent. By democratizing relations between peoples, between
nations and states, the diversity of nations and their cultures will
continue to enrich the world.
Members of the Board of Directors and members of the Founding Advisory
Board reflect the diversity of the world's peoples, and their cultures.
They are leaders of nations' governments, community activists, academics,
artists, spiritual leaders actively contributing to the survival and
development of the original nations of the world.
By linking persons of diverse experience, perspectives and cultures
through the publication and exchange of their ideas, CWIS contributes to
direct communications between nations. Nations learning from each other's
experiences increase cooperation, tolerance of differences, greater mutual
understanding and the likelihood of cooperation based on mutual consent.
CENTER PROGRAMS
Elaborating Policy
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Policies toward the world's original nations established by states'
governments and multi-lateral organizations like the United Nations,
Inter-American Congress on Indian Life, and the World Bank have been
evolving at an accelerated pce during the last twenty-five years. The
Center for World Indigenous Studies contributes proposals, suggestions and
recommendations to states' government legislative bodies to improve
relations between nations and states. CWIS has contributed to the
formulation of the United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
and to revisions in the International Labour Organization's Convention
107. The Center facilitated participation of several nations' governments
in the work of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
and the Inter-American Congress on Indian Life.
The Center has played an increasingly active role in the development of
constructive and cooperative policies between the Supreme Soviet of the
Russian Federation and the more than sixty-five nations within the
federation. In cooperation with the Royal Commission on Indian Self-
Government, CWIS contributes to the formulation of a mutually acceptable
basis for political relations between Indian Nations and the government of
Canada. The Center's work contributed to the development of a policy of
government-to-government relations between the U.S. government and Indian
Nations' governments. The immediate outcome of this work was the
negotiation of a series of bi-lateral self-governance compacts beginning
in 1990. These compacts have become an important focus of study by Dr.
Miguel Alfonso Martinez, Special Rapporteur for the United Nations Study
on Treaties and other Cooperative Arrangements between Indigenous Peoples
and States' Governments. The Center is an active contributor to the UN
Study.
RESEARCH
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The Center sponsors an ongoing Right-wing and Anti-
Indian Networks Project (RWAIN) to study the phenomenon of population
displacement by non-tribal members experienced by Indian nations in the
United States. The study is conducted in cooperation with Indian Tribes,
local organizations, the Western States Center and the Center for
Democratic Renewal.
The Fourth World Atlas Project is a continuing research effort that
documents the social, economic, political and territorial characteristics
of the worlds' surviving original nations. In cooperations with
researchers in the Department of Geography at the University of
California - Berkeley and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
the University of Queensland and contributors of individual nations, CWIS
is building a detailed database and maps depicting Fourth World Nations.
SYMPOSIA AND SEMINARS
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The establishment of self-government by nations served as the subject of a
Symposium on Indian Self-Government sponsored by the Center in cooperation
with The Evergreen State College, the Fourth World Center for the Study of
Politics at the University of Colorado - Boulder and the Quinault,
S'Klallam (Jamestown), and Lummi Nations. The Center conducted Fourth
World Governance seminars in Canada, Australia, Costa Rica and the United
States.
COMPUTERIZED FOURTH WORLD DOCUMENTATION NETWORK
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The Quarto Mundista BBS, FidoNet 1:352/333 (206)786-9629 14.4
v32bis/v42bis is a computerized database of Fourth World Documents and the
electronic access point for the CWIS Fourth World Catalogue. More than
six hundred documents are available through an international relay network
giving researchers direct access to many of the Center's resources. The
Center publishes the Fourth World Catalogue with a list of the most
frequently requested documents, reprints and reports concerning the Fourth
World.
PUBLICATIONS
INDIAN WAR AND PEACE IN NICARAGUA (1985)
INDIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICAL STATUS OF INDIAN
NATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1989)
FOURTH WORLD JOURNAL - Periodical of essays, articles and commentaries
by leading contributors on social, economic and political thought
affecting and concerning Fourth World Nations.
OCCASIONAL PAPERS 1-21 (1984-1992) [sample list]
"The Interdependence of Biological and Cultural Diversity" (1992)
"The Meaning of 'Nation' and 'State' in the Fourth World" (1992)
"Tribes and States in Conflict: A Tribal Proposal" (Updated
Edition) (1992)
"Ireland, England and the Question of Northern Ireland" (1992)
"Anti-Indian Movement on the Tribal Frontier" (1991, 1992)
"Fourth World Nation's Reality in Canada" (1990)
"Self-Government and Overcoming Political Obstacles" (1990)
"Europe's Fourth World Nations in a 'Common European Home' (1990)
"Fourth World Governance" (1989)
"The World Bank's Indigenous Policy" (1988)
"Session V of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous
Populations, A Letter From Geneva" (1987)
"Transcultural Tapeworm Trafficking, The Indonesian Introduction of
Biological Warfare in West Papua" (1986)
"The Rules of War and Fourth World Nations" (1985)
"Horrors of the Chittagong Hill Tracts" (1985)
"An Indian Struggle for Aid and Justice in Nicaragua" (1985)
F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N
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