Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta speaks on Environmental Justice and Democracy

Environmental Justice and Democracy Fall 2024 Colloquia Series

Democracy in its most familiar forms has often floundered in the face of systemic injustice. Democracy has also repeatedly been used as a shield to further environmental injustice and colonial extraction both domestically and internationally. How can we work toward justice while reckoning with and disrupting this disturbing legacy? How do we understand the importance, possibilities, and approaches for centering environmental justice in our contemporary democratic systems and processes? What solutions-oriented pathways already exist? What practices will no longer serve us? This colloquia series aims to support and enliven the discourse around these and other questions. Most fundamentally these colloquia seek to build our collective capacity for engaging in democracy to cultivate environmental justice.

Presenter: Dr. José Ramos-Horta ‘84 (Antioch University, MA in Peace Studies) is the current president of Timor-Leste. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 and returned to his home country in 1999, after 20 years of exile during the Indonesian military occupation. He previously served as Timor-Leste’s second president from 2007-2012. He has been profiled in Antioch University Common Thread.

This program is offered with support from Antioch Works for Democracy