International Conference on Sami Self-Determination:

Scope and Implementation

4 – 6 February 2008, Alta

Rica Alta Hotel

Conference Program
Monday, 4 February 2008

11:30 – 13:00 Registration

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:30 Opening of conference

Opening speech by the head of the Sami Parliamentary Council Egil Olli
and by State Secretary Raimo Valle of the Norwegian Ministry of Labour
and Social Inclusion

13:30 – 14:10 Indigenous peoples’ human rights

Professor Rodolfo Stavenhagen, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the

Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples

14:20 – 15:00 The right of self-determination under international law

Professor Gudmundur Alfredsson, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Sweden

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee

15:30 – 16:10 Indigenous peoples’ right of self-determination under international

law

Professor James Anaya, University of Arizona, the USA

16:20 – 17:00 Sami self-determination – Nordic perspective

Professor Martin Scheinin, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

17:00 – 17:30 Questions / discussion

18:00 – 19:45 Movie Kautokeino-opprøret in Alta cinema

20:00 Dinner
Tuesday, 5 February 2008

09:00 – 09:45 Land, Resources, Livelihoods and Culture – Sami self-determination

Phd candidate Mattias Åhrén, University of Tromsø, Norway

10:00 – 10:45 Research – Sami self-determination

Professor Ole Henrik Magga, Sami University College, Kautokeino,

Norway

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee

11:15 – 12:00 Economy – Sami self-determination

Cand. Oecon. Rune Sverre Fjellheim, head of the Arctic Council’s Indigenous Peoples’
Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark

12:00 – 12:45 Questions / discussion

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 Political aspects – Sami self-determination

PhD candidate Laila Susanne Vars, University of Tromsø, Norway

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee

15:20 – 16:30 Questions / discussion

19:00 Dinner (with joik or other cultural features)

Wednesday, 6 February 2008

09:00 – 09:45 Education – Sami self-determination

Associate Professor Asta Mitkija Balto, Sami University College,

Kautokeino, Norway
Professor Vuokko Hirvonen, Sami University College, Kautokeino,
Norway

10:00 – 10:45 The female perspective – Sami self-determination

Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen, Kautokeino, Norway

11:00 – 11:30 Questions / discussion

11:30 – 12:00 Closing/summary of the conference

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch