The Global Dialogue on Human Rights and Biodiversity Conservation was initiated to address the conflicts that have often emerged across the globe between conservation agencies and Indigenous peoples with longstanding relationships to their ancestral territories. It was hosted by the Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples Development Project and co-organised by SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Forest Peoples Programme, and Natural Justice. The dialogue took the conviction that local people and conservation organizations can be strategic allies as a starting point. It was attended by conservation agencies, social justice, and human rights advocates, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use experts, legal and human rights professionals, members of community-based organizations, the government of cials, UN organizations, and academics. It was designed in a global policy-setting context,
