Riya-Rao-Indigenous-Resilience

Why should the UK care about Indigenous disaster resilience?

As an Australian delegate to this year’s G20 Youth (Y20) Summit, in Washington D.C., I repeatedly found myself defending one word in negotiations: Indigenous. Youth delegates from the other G20 nations on my Fragility, Conflict and Violence Track questioned the term’s relevance to member countries without an Indigenous population, suggesting ‘local’ as an alternative. I …