Stop handing them the gun, the whatsappification of diplomacy, delegation lounge anthropology.

What you’ll hear:

• A questionnaire asks Indigenous Peoples to score the Permanent Forum on trust and effectiveness. With a UN80 review on the table, that is not self-assessment. That is building the case for the people who want to retire your mechanisms.

• UN80 Rev1 dropped. Every mandate now faces renewal, adaptation, merger, replacement, or retirement. A w…