Map of mining conflicts in Latin America
The map of mining conflicts in Latin America is a digital platform developed and managed by the Observatory of mining conflicts in Latin America, an initiative that groups civil society organizations with the purpose of establishing resistance strategies and alternatives to mining projects in Latin America. This tool is an interactive map of the region, which visualizes cases of conflicts between communities and mining projects, conflicts over water, cases of criminalization of protests and public consultations on mining. Citizens are invited to submit information about conflicts, so that they are subsequently registered on the platform. With regards to Panama, the platform registers 7 mining conflicts in various regions of the country, one of them started in 1997 and the rest between 2005 and 2014. According to the information provided by the website, two of them endanger water sources and in one of them criminalization of civil protests has been registered.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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