Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation

Chidi Oguamanam is called to the Bar in Nigeria and Canada and is a member of Nigerian Bar Association and Nova Scotia's Barristers' Society. In addition to public speaking engagements nationally and internationally, Dr Oguamanam provides technical and expert consulting and support services in his areas of work for states and sub-state actors, intergovernmental bodies, Indigenous and local communities in developed and newly industrializing countries and elsewhere. He is also the author of: International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine (2006) and Intellectual Property in Global Governance: A Development Question (2011).

Part I. The Evolution of the ABS Policy Landscape in Canada: 1. The ABS Canada initiative: scoping and gauging Indigenous responses to ABS Chidi Oguamanam; 2. Canada and the Nagoya Protocol: towards implementation, in support of reconciliation Timothy J. Hodges and Jock Langford; 3. Aboriginal partnership, capacity building, and capacity development on ABS: the Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council (MAPC) and ABS Canada experience Chidi Oguamanam and Roger Hunka; Part II. Hurdles to ABS: Conceptual Questions, Practical Responses and Paths Forward: 4. Unsettling Canada's colonial constitution: a response to the question of domestic law and the creation of an access and benefit sharing regime Joshua Nichols; 5. Making room for the Nagoya Protocol in Nunavut Daniel W. Dylan; 6. Implications of the evolution of Canada's three orders of government for ABS implementation Fred Perron-Welch and Chidi Oguamanam; 7. Biopiracy flashpoints and increasing tensions over ABS in Canada Chidi Oguamanam and Christopher Koziol; 8. Applying Dene Law to genetic resources access and knowledge issues Larry Chartrand; 9. Access and benefit sharing in Canada: glimpses from the national experiences of Brazil, Namibia and Australia to inform indigenous-sensitive policy Freedom-Kai Phillips; Part III. New Technological Dynamics and Research Ethics: Implications for ABS Governance: 10. Access and benefit sharing in the age of digital biology Peter W. B. Phillips, Stuart J. Smyth and Jeremy de Beer; 11. ABS: big data, data sovereignty, and digitization – a new indigenous research landscape Chidi Oguamanam; 12. Ethical guidance for access and benefit sharing: implications for reconciliation Kelly Bannister; 13. Mapping the patterns of underestimated researcher-indigenous peoples collaborations – toward independent implementation of ABS principles Thomas Burelli; 14. ABS, reconciliation, and opportunity Chidi Oguamanam.