May, I will be in Germany for the UN Conference of Parties on the Convention on Biological Diversity. http://www.bonn.de/wirtschaft_wissenschaft_internationales/internationale_aktivitaeten/9_vertragsstaatenkonferenz_der_un_konvention_zur_biodiversitaet_bonn/index.html?lang=en

June and July I will be home in Cape Town.

August IPACC Executive Committee meeting outside Windhoek, Namibia to look at innovative applications of ICTs to represent indigenous traditional knowledge of biodiversity for the purposes of advocacy. Case studies on cybertracker and Participatory 3 Dimensional Mapping


Possible joint site visit to Himba territories with pastoralists from around Africa


September Proposed southern African regional conference of indigenous women, D’kar, Botswana. Dates to be confirmed


October IUCN General Conference in Barcelona, Spain


NovemberPossible Conservation International / IPACC joint workshop on adaptation and climate change due to take place in Marrakech, Morroco

Possible field trip to Gabon at the end of November in cooperation with MINAPYGA & WCS

SHORT BIO


Nigel Crawhall, sociolinguist, researcher, activist. Special interests: human rights, indigenous peoples rights, democratic good governance, intercultural dialogue, cultural heritage and resource management, HIV /AIDS education and prevention, interfaith dialogue and cooperation, promotion of tolerance, environmental policy




BA Hons in Political Science, McGill University 

MPhil in Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe

PhD in Linguistics, University of Cape Town



Currently Visiting Scholar at the Institutt for Sosialantropologi, Universitet i Tromsø, Norway & Director of Secretariat for the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee www.ipacc.org.za

NIGEL CRAWHALL BIBLIOGRAPHY


Rambaldi, G. J. Muchemi, N. Crawhall and L. Monaci (2007) Through the Eyes of Hunter-Gatherers: participatory 3D modelling among Ogiek indigenous peoples in Kenya in Information Development, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, 113-128 (2007)

Crawhall, N. (2006). Languages, Genetics and Archaeology: Problems and the Possibilities in Africa. In: The Prehistory of Africa Ed. H. Soodyal. Jonathan Ball publishing.

Crawhall, N. (2006) MDGs, Globalisation and Indigenous Peoples in Africa in Indigenous Affairs 1/2006. Copenhagen: IWGIA.

Crawhall, N. (2005) Story of !Ui: Causality and Language Shift in Africa. In Creating Outsiders, Endangered Languages, Migration and Marginalisation. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference. Eds N. Crawhall and N. Ostler. Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages

Crawhall, N (2005) Too Good to Leave Behind: The N l u language and the ‡Khomani people of Gordonia District in R. Finlayson and S. Slabbert (eds) Language and Identities in a Postcolony Southern African perspectives. Schriften zur Afrikanistik – Research in African Studies Vol. 10. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing.

Crawhall, N. (2004). African Indigenous Peoples’ Workshop on Traditional Knowledge, Identity and Livelihoods. Cape Town: IPACC.

Crawhall, N. (2003). Recovering land and language in the southern Kalahari. In: Maintaining the Links: Language, Identity and the Land. Proceedings of the seventh conference presented by the Foundation for Endangered Languages. Broome, Western Australia. 22nd – 24th September 2003. Ed. J. Blythe, and M. Brown, R. Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages.

Crawhall, N (2001) Written in the Sand: Auditing and Managing Cultural Resources with Displaced Indigenous Peoples. UNESCO / SASI: Cape Town

Crawhall, N. (1999) “San and Khoe rights, identity and language survival in South Africa” in G. Maharaj, Between Unity and Diversity: Essays on Nation Building in Post Apartheid South Africa. IDASA: Cape Town, SA.

International Labour Office (1999) Indigenous peoples of South Africa: current trends. Project for the Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. ILO: Geneva. Research, text and photographs provided by N. Crawhall.

Crawhall, N. (1999) “Reclaiming Rights, Resources and Identity: the power of an ancient San language” in Voices, Values and Identities 1998 Symposium. (ed) Y. Dladla. Record of the Proceedings. 25-27 August 1998, Kruger National Park. South African National Parks: Pretoria.

Crawhall, N (1999) “Going to a better life: Perspectives on the future of language in education for San and Khoe South Africans” in conference
proceedings of the World Congress of Comparative Education, UCT. July 1998. Guest editor L. Limage. Elsevier Science, Exeter: UK: 323-335.

Crawhall, N (1999) Using a sociolinguistic approach to safe sex promotion in Cape Town: the challenges of multiculturalism in Vivre et penser le SIDA en Afrique (eds) C. Becker et al. Editions Karthala and CODESRIA: Paris.

Reitzes, M and N. Crawhall (1999) Accessing the SADC Amnesty: The Urban Experience in The New South Africans? Immigration Amnesties and their Aftermath. (eds) Crush, J and V. Williams. SAMP / IDASA: Cape Town.

Reitzes, M. and N. Crawhall (1998) Silenced by Nation-building: the Exclusion of African migrants in South Africa. Occasional publication. South African Migration Project: Cape Town.

Crawhall, N (1997) Taking Language into New Domains in The Feasibility of Technical Development in African Languages. Edited by National Terminology Services. Dept of Arts Culture Science and Technology: Pretoria.

Crawhall, N. (ed) (1992) Democratically Speaking: International Perspectives on Language Planning. National Language Project: Cape Town