Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs hosted a virtual event featuring Mr. Luis Felipe Duchicela. Luis Felipe launched the USAID Policy for Promoting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in March 2020. The lecture explained the central tenets of this policy and how this policy represents a pivotal change in international engagement cooperation with Indigenous peoples because it enhanced their ability to protect their rights, determine their own priorities, and advance their self-determined development and self-reliance.
Musqueam Welcome: Elder Larry Grant, Adjunct Professor, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program; Consultant, Musqueam Language and Culture Department
Speaker: Mr. Luis Felipe Duchicela, Senior Advisor for Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, USAID
Moderator: Grace Jaramillo, Sessional Instructor, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs hosted a virtual event featuring Mr. Luis Felipe Duchicela. Luis Felipe launched the USAID Policy for Promoting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in March 2020. The lecture explained the central tenets of this policy and how this policy represents a pivotal change in international engagement cooperation with Indigenous peoples because it enhanced their ability to protect their rights, determine their own priorities, and advance their self-determined development and self-reliance.
Musqueam Welcome: Elder Larry Grant, Adjunct Professor, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program; Consultant, Musqueam Language and Culture Department
Speaker: Mr. Luis Felipe Duchicela, Senior Advisor for Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, USAID
Moderator: Grace Jaramillo, Sessional Instructor, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC
![[Book Launch] Active Non-Alignment: An IR Doctrine for this Century](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S6-89I6ZLu0/mqdefault.jpg "[Book Launch] Active Non-Alignment: An IR Doctrine for this Century
On Monday, February 28, 2022, UBCs School of Public Policy and Global Affairs co-hosted a virtual book launch with the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) to explore a new book by Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, titled El No Alineamiento Activo y América Latina: una doctrina para el nuevo siglo (Active Non-Alignment and Latin America: A Doctrine for the New Century). The discussants addressed the topic from American and Canadian interests and potential reactions.
Welcome Remarks: Clara Renault, Student, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Speaker: Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Discussant: Jeff Reeves, Vice-President, Research & Strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Discussant: Paul Evans, Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Moderator: Grace Jaramillo, Sessional Instructor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
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