Map of Latin American Mining Conflicts
The Map of Latin American Mining Conflicts is a participatory digital tool created by the Observatory of Latin American Mining Conflicts (OCMAL): a civil society organization that articulates the work of multiple social organizations created in resistance to mining projects affecting their communities. The local organizations associated to OCMAL participate by providing the information to feed the map, which includes the location of the conflicts between mining companies and local communities, the characteristics and history of the extractive project, complaints on human rights violations committed by the companies, and the documentation of legal and social mobilization actions related to each conflict. The documented conflicts in the Dominican Republic include the mining project San Rafael (community of El Valle), the project in Loma Miranda (provinces of La Vega and Monseñor) and the concession granted to Barrick Gold (community of Pueblo Viejo in the Sánchez Ramírez province).
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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