<div dir="auto">Dear Maryam<div dir="auto">You have sown the seeds of   motivation and shown the right approach till IYRP 2026 declaration and also further discussions with working  groups to come out reports which help to proceed further. Now we are to  try with our efforts to norish and sustain to take it forward. Hope you are not un available  for any important consultations   till ,2026.</div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto">Vivekanandan </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 17 Oct, 2023, 5:49 pm Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, <<a href="mailto:gbffilter@gmail.com">gbffilter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-2268486605834618817WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Indeed, Maryam!  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>You have been an inspiring Chair, and -- in truth -- an inspiring person throughout all these years...<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Warmest thanks and wishes for all you care about,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u></u><img width="58" height="37" style="width:.6in;height:.3833in" src="cid:image002.jpg@01DA0103.BF5884B0" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Description: logo-small"><u></u><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">Dr Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">member of the Council of Elders</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.iccaconsortium.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#0563c1">ICCA Consortium Association</span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">   </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:gbffilter@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#0563c1">gbffilter@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span> <span style="font-size:8.0pt">watch our short film:<b><i> </i></b><i> </i></span><a href="https://youtu.be/70mt7bozJb8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">English</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#ff9900"> | </span></i><a href="https://youtu.be/m40xcA_M8uc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Español</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#ff9900"> | </span></i><a href="https://youtu.be/ecdjvKJ07J8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Français</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#ff9900">           <u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#ff9900"><a href="https://report.territoriesoflife.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:#0563c1">Territories of life 2021 Report</span></a>   <a href="https://ssprocess.iccaconsortium.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:#0563c1">Strengthening your territory of life</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> IYRPsupportgroup <<a href="mailto:iyrpsupportgroup-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">iyrpsupportgroup-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wright, Iain (ILRI)<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 17, 2023 9:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> Letizia Bindi <<a href="mailto:letizia.bindi@unimol.it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">letizia.bindi@unimol.it</a>>; Maryam Niamir-Fuller <<a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mniafull2@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:iyrpsupportgroup@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">iyrpsupportgroup@list.cals.arizona.edu</a>; Sarah Johnson <<a href="mailto:sarah@whpress.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sarah@whpress.co.uk</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IYRPsupportgroup] Searching for a Co-chair, and Blog on sedentist bias in support of IYRP 2026<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Maryam<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you for your message that you will be stepping down as Co-chair of the IYRP ISG.  Your leadership of this idea has been inspirational.  From a suggestion in 2016 from some of us involved in rangelands through the Society for Range Management, the Rangelands Partnership and The International Rangeland Congress that we should advocate for the UN to designate an International  Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists you showed leadership and worked hard  with determination to make this idea come true. I recall meetings and discussions in the early days  on the fringes of UNEA in  Nairobi and the efforts to get governments to support the initiative. It has been a  long journey, we made it together, but we could not have made it without you.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Of course your interest and dedication to rangelands and pastoralists goes back a long time – right back to the days of your PhD in the 1980s.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Once again thank you so much for your leadership in ensuring the IYRP will  happen in 2026.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best Wishes<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Iain<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> IYRPsupportgroup <<a href="mailto:iyrpsupportgroup-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">iyrpsupportgroup-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Letizia Bindi<br><b>Sent:</b> 16 October, 2023 11:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> Maryam Niamir-Fuller <<a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mniafull2@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:iyrpsupportgroup@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">iyrpsupportgroup@list.cals.arizona.edu</a>; Sarah Johnson <<a href="mailto:sarah@whpress.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sarah@whpress.co.uk</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IYRPsupportgroup] Searching for a Co-chair, and Blog on sedentist bias in support of IYRP 2026<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Many thanks, Maryam, for your work as co-chair during all these years and for your insightful paper on NP.<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In effect we are right now, some of us, in New Delhi discussing of pastoral issues with Greta Semplici, Saverio Kratli and others.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There many routes to follow and to share.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warmly, <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Letizia <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Il Lun 16 Ott 2023, 22:07 Maryam Niamir-Fuller <<a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mniafull2@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear IYRP friends<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">After many years of being part of steering the IYRP ISG Coalition, I would like to inform  you that I have stepped down as Co-Chair. Thank you all for your support and encouragement. We are now searching for a replacement and if you are interested, please contact Co-Chair Igshaan Samuels.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I also take this opportunity to bring to your attention this short opinion in the White Horse Press which is reproduced from the Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples entitled ‘Sedentist Biases in Law, Policy and Practic’, edited by Greta Semplici and Cory Rodgers. The whole issue (and all 2023 content) and is published Open Access thanks to the ‘Subscribe to Open’ project for NP.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Mobility has many different shapes around the world. At a time when migration of peoples (more popularly known as immigration) generates so much passion and debate, let us not confuse it with "mobility", that is, the tradition, science and art of being on the move as a response and adaptation to natural variability in our environment. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">WHP blog:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://whitehorsepress.blog/2023/10/16/sedentist-biases-in-law-policy-and-practice-concluding-commentary/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://whitehorsepress.blog/2023/10/16/sedentist-biases-in-law-policy-and-practice-concluding-commentary/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">*...*...*...*<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Maryam Niamir-Fuller<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Support the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026  <a href="https://www.iyrp.info" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.iyrp.info</a></span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><img border="0" width="96" height="96" style="width:1.0in;height:1.0in" id="m_-2268486605834618817Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01DA0103.BF5884B0" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><img border="0" width="96" height="62" style="width:1.0in;height:.6416in" id="m_-2268486605834618817Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01DA0103.BF5884B0" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">_______________________________________________<br>IYRPsupportgroup mailing list<br><a href="mailto:IYRPsupportgroup@list.cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">IYRPsupportgroup@list.cals.arizona.edu</a><br><a href="https://list.cals.arizona.edu/mailman/listinfo/iyrpsupportgroup" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://list.cals.arizona.edu/mailman/listinfo/iyrpsupportgroup</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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