Iokiñe Rodríguez is a sociologist who uses local environmental knowledge and participatory action-research to help transform environmental conflicts and achieve environmental justice.
Part of DEV’s Global Environmental Justice Group, her work on environmental conflict transformation focuses on issues of local history, local knowledge, power, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue. This has led to her building local and institutional capacity to transform environmental conflicts in Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Colombia.
Iokiñe Rodríguez is also co-founder of ‘Grupo Confluencias’, a consortium of Latin American conflict resolution practitioners, researchers and institutions who develop processes for environmental conflict transformation, a Honorary member of the ICCA (Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas) Consortium and a member of the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA)
Her current key projects include:
- INDIS (2018-2021) The Indigenous Interaction for Sustainable Sustainable Development project aims to understand the ways indigenous communities on three continents have responded to changing, and sometime extreme environmental conditions in terms of their wellbeing and ecosystems. Their knowledge of sustainable development and climate mitigation and adaptation can inspire innovations and social, economic and environmental policies. Link for web team: https://indisproject.org/
- School, territory & post-conflict (2018-2021) – this project aims to build a local culture of peace in South Tolima, Colombia, developed through schools. Teachers, schools and community leaders from four municipalities are all involved with the design and development of a pedagogical strategy for peace-building and territorial development. The project uses action-research to make visible the experiences that children, teenagers, teachers, parents and community leaders have had with the armed conflict and an increase in environmental conflicts (some of which have links to climate change) and the different local strategies they have developed over the years to deal with such conflicts. Link for web team: http://eurekaeducativa.com/etp/
