Climate Change, Conflict & Famine

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Date: Saturday October 1st 2011Venue: Kimmage Development Studies Centre

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10.00 Registration

10.30 Fáilte Followed by music with Christine Nalubega and friends.

10.35 Famine, Climate and Con�ict in the Horn of Africa - Abjata Khalif Followed by Q&A

11.35 Tea/co�ee

11.50 Climate Change in Ireland and Beyond - John Sweeney Followed by Q&A

12.50 Planting a Hedge with Forest Friends

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Workshops:

The Awakening Universe - Rose Kelly

We Belong to the Earth - Gary Whitedeer

Climate change and Justice: causes, impacts and solutions - Molly Walsh

Climate Change and Pastoralism: Challenging the Stereotypes - Tom Campbell

3.30 Reporting Back from Workshops

4.00 End with Music

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IntroductionWe are delighted to return to Kimmage Development Studies Centre again this year for our Annual Hedge School. Last year’s event was memorable with the usual mix of stimulating talks, engaging workshops, hedge planting, good music and good food.

This year one of our keynote speakers will be Abjata Khalid who, in response to the letter of invitation, wrote: “I will share with your participants a version of ‘hedge schools’ in northern Kenya where a camel laden with books and teaching aids and a mobile teacher moves with nomadic families and o�ers education to nomadic children. This unique form of education was started to assist nomadic children get education after many years of marginalization from successive regimes in Kenya and also during British rule.”

Unfortunately, the situation from which Abjata comes is critical as more than ten million people are experiencing the worst famine in the Horn of Africa in over �fty years. In this context, we are very pleased to have Abjata, who works with pastoralists – some of the most seriously a�ected people - to give his insight and analysis of the e�ects and causes of this catastrophe.

We know that failed rains are one element but the underlying causes remain the impact of climate change, poverty and social injustice. The devastating impact of climate change, particularly on the most vulnerable people in the world can no longer be ignored.

The roots of the problem of climate change, of course, lie in the Northern Hemisphere and leading climate scientist John Sweeney will look at the issue closer to home and alert us to the opportunities in the coming months to address this problem. For example, this December UN climate delegates will meet in Durban, South Africa for a new round of talks. Despite an appalling record to date, it is hoped that now, with ten million lives hanging in the balance, their resolve to reach a deal will match the extreme urgency of the situation.

These and related issues will be explored through a series of lively workshops with African music interwoven throughout the day - not to mention time to touch the soil and plant a tree.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Joe Murray(Afri Coordinator)

Abjata Khalif is a freelance journalist and a development worker from Kenya with an interest in climate change, development and renewable energy. He is the Chair of Kenya Pastoralist Journalist Network, a community media organisation in northern Kenya that uses media in advocating peace, o�ering peace education, reconciling communities through radio talk shows and community forums. He is also a regular contributor to Climate & Develop-ment Knowledge Network, which supports developing countries in delivering climate compatible development.

Professor John Sweeney is a senior lecturer at the Geography Department in NUI Maynooth and is one of Ireland's leading climate scientists. He is a member of the Nobel-winning Intergov-ernmental Panel on Climate Change. Over the past 30 years he has published approximately 60 scienti�c papers and edited/co-authored 4 texts on various aspects of climatology and climate change in Ireland. He currently leads a number of nationally funded research projects examin-ing various aspects of climate change in Ireland.

Tom Campbell is Registrar and Lecturer at Kimmage Development Studies Centre where he teaches Environment and Development. He is also a co-facilitator of DTALK Sustainable Liveli-hoods and Poverty Reduction Strategies, and Climate Change and Development courses. His area of expertise lies in the Political Economy of Environmental Change, Sustainable Livelihoods and the Economics of Sustainability. He has extensive experience working here in Ireland, as well as in several East African countries and India. He is currently a member of the Dóchas Working Group on Food Security and Liveli-hoods.

Rose Kelly is from Inis Eoghain in Co. Donegal. A primary school teacher by profession she has been involved in environmental and human

rights campaigning and education for the last 20 years. She is a founding member of the Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign, the Moville/ Greencastle Environmental Group, facilitator with the youth environmental/human rights group Glasóige Maghbhile and Chairperson of the development organisation Children in Cross�re.

Molly Walsh has been part of the Friends of the Earth team since June 2008. After a six month internship she moved on to being the organisa-tion's Policy and Advocacy o�cer. She particu-larly enjoys mobilising and campaigning and talking to "real people" not just politicians. Molly studied Environmental Biology in UCD and still retains a keen interest in Botany and Zoology. She was FoE Ireland's representative at the UN negotiations in Poznan in 2008 and in Copenhagen in 2009. She enjoys gardening, cooking and cycling.

Gary White Deer of the Choctaw Nation is an internationally-known painter, tribal chanter, dance leader and Professor of Choctaw Studies at Bacone College, Oklahoma. He has received numerous art awards and honors including First Place at the Minneapolis Indian Market and Best of Show at the American Indian Exposition. Gary has lectured at venues such as Vanderbilt University, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Oklahoma and Hunter College, NYC. He has represented the Irish-Choctaw Famine link on many occasions and has appeared in a number of documentaries. He is currently working on a major �lm project and is writing his �rst novel, ‘Spirits in the Rain’.

MusicChristine Nalubega, from Uganda, speaks and sings in Swahili and Luganda as well as in English. She has lived in Ireland for seven years and is currently studying in the National College of Ireland.

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Afri gratefully acknowledges the support of Irish Aid, Trócaire and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

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