Advocacy in the Amazon and the Camisea gas project: implications for non-government public action

Brian Pratt

Development in Practice, 2007, vol. 17, issue 6, 775-783

Abstract: The article considers international advocacy concerning the exploitation of gas reserves in an area inhabited by an isolated indigenous group in Peru, the Machigengua. Considerable international advocacy activity was centred mainly in Washington, DC. Poor communication between those directly affected and international environmental NGOs characterised very different and not always compatible agendas. The article concludes that this failure to adapt the international lobby both to the views of the indigenous population and to political realities in Peru severely weakened the impact of the international advocacy work.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520701628246

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