About the Fourth World Center

Who We Are and What We Do

The Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics was founded in 1984 as a resource commons of authoritative information on indigenous peoples' affairs. The major components of the Center's educational project are:

the creation and presentation of a university-level multidisciplinary curriculum focused on the stucy of indigenous peoples;
the publication of the Fourth World Bulletin, a journal on indigenous politics with a global concentration;
the development of university textbooks for the study of indigenous politics;
the presentation of public forums; and
the presentation of testimony before international legal organizations.

Beyond its unique curriculum development work at CU-Denver, the Center's educational mission has been to construct a national and internationcuseal forum for analysis of law and government policies that affect indigenous peoples in every part of the world . Therefore, the Center focuses heavily upon the evolution of legal institutions that are being created for the recognition and protection of indigenous peoples, especially the evolving United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Draft Declaration distinguishes indigenous peoples' rights from other categories of human rights, including those constructed to protect individuals of minority groups; explaining the implications of that distinction is fundamental to the Center's wo rk.

The Center concentrates much of its attention upon national and international categories of violent conflict and conflict resolution involving indigenous peoples. Globally, indigenous peoples' wars are the predominant form of warfare of the present time, although they often go unrecognized as such, due to prevalent patterns of their interpretation and misinterpretation in general disource as "civil wars" or "ethnic conflicts." The Fourth World Center seeks to open and expand a broader conceptual and theoretical discourse on the fundamental reasons that indigenous struggles are so prevalent. The Center aspires to play a positive rol e through its educational work in efforts to provide viable models for reconciling the interests of states and indigenous peoples.

How You Can Be A Part

By subscribing to the Fourth World Bulletin you will continue to rec as eive one of the most incisive and hard-hitting critiques on international indigenous issues. But in order to continue and expand the projects that the Cent er is working on we need the financial support of like-minded people like you. Without such support this issue of the Bulletin would not have been possible. One of our supporters has generously agreed to match private contributions to the Center dollar for dollar. Your contribution is now not only tax deductible but it will mean double the financial support for the Center.

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          Fourth World Center for the Study of
          Indigenous Law and Politics
          Department of Political Science
          University of Colorado at Denver
          Campus Box 190, P.O. Box 173364
          Denver, CO 80217-3364 USA 
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