Climate Change and the Protection of Indigenous Peoples Under International Law in the Overseas Colonized Territories of the State

• Sara Olsvig and Miriam Cullen, “Arctic Indigenous Peoples and International Law” 93(1) Nordic Journal of International Law (Special Issue on Interdisciplinarity and International Law edited by Zuzanna Godzimirska and William Hamilton Byrne) (2024) (email Miriam for a draft version)
• Miriam Cullen, Benedicte Sofie Holm, and Céline Brassart-Olsen, “A Human Rights-Based Approach to Disaster Risk Management in Greenland: Displacement, Relocation, and the Legacies of Colonialism” (2023) Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Special Issue on Human Rights) (forthcoming) (email Miriam for a draft version)
• Miriam Cullen and Céline Brassart-Olsen, “Climate Change and Human Rights in the Overseas Colonized Territories of the State”, in Dina Lupin (ed.) A Research Agenda on Human Rights and the Environment (Edward Elgar) (2023)
• Miriam Cullen, “Climate Change, Colonialism and Human Rights in Greenland” in Petra Butler and Jean-Pierre Gauci (ds) Human Rights in Small States (Springer)
  
• Miriam Cullen, “Climate Resilience and the Cook Islands' Relationship of Free Association with Aotearoa / New Zealand” (2023) DIIS Policy Brief, also available in Western Greenlandic.
  
• Steph Matti, Miriam Cullen, Uta Reichardt and Andrea Vigfúsdóttir, “Planned Relocation due to Landslide-Triggered Tsunami Risk in Recently Deglaciated Areas” (2023) International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 86.

Bachelor and masters theses:

• Benedicte Sofie Holm, “Empowering Resilience: Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Implementing Culturally Sensitive Disaster Risk Management in Greenland” (defended 2023)
• Gry Lykke Schmidt, “Peoples and Power: Implementing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in the Legal Framework on Energy Resource Exploitation in Greenland” (defended 2023)
• Elise Juul, “Climate change and Colonialism: Human rights-protection of Greenlandic children” (defended 2022)

• The Human Right to Science in Greenland”, Greenland Science Week, 9 November 2023, Nuuk Greenland, register here
• “Climate Justice in Greenland”, presented to Turning the Tide: Climate Change, Social Change, and Islandness – The Second International Conference on Small Island States and Subnational Island Jurisdictions, Panel on Climate Justice for Islands with Limited Sovereignty (University of Aruba, 23-24 October 2023) Miriam Cullen.
• Podcast interview with KlimaFokus, June 2023, “Det Globale Klima”
• “Free Association - How are Pacific, Caribbean, and North-Atlantic experiences relevant for Greenland?”, 24 May, Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland. In collaboration with the Danish Institute for International Studies and Ilisimatusarfik / the University of Greenland. Miriam Cullen spoke about Aotearoa / New Zealand’s relationship of Free Association with the Cook Islands and Niue and potential independence for Tokelau. Read the related policy paper here (also available in western Greenlandic).
  
  
• Presentation 4 May 2023 14.30 to 15.30: Miriam Cullen, “Law, Rights and Nature”, auditorium, Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland, Nuuk
  
  
• Podcast interview Dec 2022: Juristeriet “Kolonitidens juridiske strukturer spøger i klimakrisen” (in English)
  
  
• Feature article (Danish) 2021: Dansk Frie Forskningsfond ”Nyt forskningsprojekt vil udfylde huller i vores viden om klimatilpasning” (in Danish)

Nivikka Witjes, Project Leader, Siu-Tsiu, Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland

Elsa Stamatopolou, Director, Indigenous Peoples’ Program, Columbia University

Helle Porsdam, Professor, Copenhagen University, UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights, Professor, University of Copenhagen

Rachael Lorna Johnstone, Professor, University of Akureyri, Iceland

Alberto Costi, Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand