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DESCRIPTION:Adjunct Professor Louise Otis invites Law students to join her 
 for special conferences as part of her Focus Week Workshop on the Law of I
 nternational Organizations.\n\nFor this talk\, we welcome special guest Mi
 chael Brown. He will lecture on his work at the UN special mediation Unit 
 as a mediator specialized on natural resource and land conflicts around th
 e world.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nMichael Brown is a regular consulting adv
 isor to the United Nations (UN) on natural resource and land conflicts\, m
 ediation\, indigenous peoples and peacebuilding. He is a Professor of Prac
 tice in Conflict Mediation at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Institute for the Study 
 of International Development. His work focuses primarily on natural resour
 ce and land conflicts.\n\nHe was the UN's Senior Mediation Expert on Land 
 and Natural Resource Conflicts for the Department of Political Affairs' (D
 PA) Standby Mediation Team\, and a Senior Expert on Natural Resources\, En
 vironmental Diplomacy and Mediation for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP
 ). He has held leadership and senior advisory positions with the UN Develo
 pment Programme (UNDP)\, UN DPA\, the World Bank\, and UN peace missions. 
 Among many professional and academic publications\, Michael is one of the 
 principal contributing authors of Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide 
 for Mediation Practitioners (United Nations\, 2015).\n\nHis experience spa
 ns dozens of countries through Latin America\, Asia\, Africa and North Ame
 rica. His natural resource conflict expertise covers extractive industries
 \, land and water disputes\, particularly when local and/or indigenous com
 munities are involved or affected.\n
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LOCATION:NCDH 312\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Focus Week: The Work of the UN’s Special Mediation Unit
URL:/law/channels/event/focus-week-work-uns-special-me
 diation-unit-294563
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