2021 Awardees

Winner

Professor Louise Fortmann

2021 Senior Scholar Awardee

With a focus on poverty, property, gender, and community management of natural resources, especially in Africa and California, Dr. Fortmann has been a pioneer and committed advocate for integrating equity concerns into commons research and research practices throughout her career. She is perhaps best known for bringing in and supporting diverse voices, especially women, developing country scholars and community practitioners, in the study of natural resource commons.

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Winner

Dr. Dario Novellino

2021 Practitioner Awardee

Dr. Dario Novellino is an advocate for indigenous peoples’ and pastoralists’ rights with an academic background in social anthropology. Over the last thirty years he has shaped his existence into a coherent mission for the defence of collective rights of unprivileged communities. In 1987, at the age of 24, Dario began organizing the Tanabag Batak tribe of Palawan to counter logging operations and he assisted them in the writing of a petition to the President of the Philippines. A few months later, the company’s license was revoked and the Batak forest was spared from destruction.

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Winner

Tlachinollan - Centrode Derechos Humanos de la Montaña de Guerrero

2021 Practitioner Awardee

Tlachinollan, founded 28 years ago, is an interdisciplinary group devoted to the defense of the human rights of indigenous people, Me’phaa, Na’savi, Naua, Ñomndaa and Afromexicans of Guerreto state in Southern Mexico. The region inhabited by these groups (Montaña and Costa Chica) are the poorest within Mexico, while Guerrero is the most violent.

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2021 Elinor Ostrom Award Event