Map of Mining Conflicts in Latin America
In 2013 the Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America launched the Map of Mining Conflicts in Latin America, a digital tool for monitoring mining conflicts in the region. The database is presented as an interactive map were users can explore the conflicts of 20 Latin-American countries such as Peru, Mexico, Argentina or Nicaragua. The database currently holds 277 cases that can be sorted by category: criminalization of social protest, public consultations, prohibition of mining, water defense and gender issues. The base presents a detailed description of each case with its respective involved actors. Finally, all the users can submit a case for revision in order to be incorporated into the database.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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