<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Maryam,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Very sad to see you stepping down. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for your invaluable contributions and leadership as Co-Chair of the IYRP ISG Coalition. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I think colleagues would agree that your leadership role, support, and encouragement have been instrumental in IYRP GSG achievements so far, and we are truly grateful to you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Nevertheless, you will remain as an active member in the ISG for IYRP so I am happy you will be still around to rely on.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks also for sharing the opinion piece, and access link to WHP blog. Looking forward to going through it.. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">With warm regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Tungaa<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:36 AM Maryam Niamir-Fuller <<a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com">mniafull2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear IYRP friends<div><br></div><div><div>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.</div><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>WHP blog:<br></div><div><a href="https://whitehorsepress.blog/2023/10/16/sedentist-biases-in-law-policy-and-practice-concluding-commentary/" target="_blank">https://whitehorsepress.blog/2023/10/16/sedentist-biases-in-law-policy-and-practice-concluding-commentary/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">*...*...*...*<div>Dr. Maryam Niamir-Fuller<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Support the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026  <a href="https://www.iyrp.info" target="_blank">https://www.iyrp.info</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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