Sitemap - 2026 - The Indigenous Diplomat

5 ways into the ICJ without changing the statute, how to read who actually supports you through the UPR, how two BBNJ lines landed without me pushing.

How to sell ice cream before you sell vanilla, 5 steps from presence to power, and the carbon market review nobody is preparing for.

How I track declining appetite for Indigenous rights, Vienna is the most underrated city for Indigenous rights, and a suite of tools for the UNDRIP20.

20 years in. Losing still stings. Here is how I move.

UN80: How Indigenous Rights are at risk.

The countries you think support you are voting to shrink the UN, a Red Bull tactic showed up at the delegates lounge, and why the UN you trained for will not exist next year.

How I turned a two-page brief into a four-tab document in real time, PFII might be at more risk than the mechanisms, and how to build a snowball that does not stop rolling.

I carried 5 wrong beliefs into the UN for years. Here is what they cost me.

Why the ICJ will not reopen the Declaration (Full ICJ AO x UNDRIP FAQ), and how to get a recommendation into the report.

4 questions. Every UN outcome you want runs through them.

4 dangers + 4 opportunities I gave the Forum, why protecting the door is useless without the house, and a workshop mistake worth learning from.

How I turned one slot into a caucus statement, why they keep asking what you would sacrifice, and the train that already left the station.

How I edit statements differently for stories vs data, the real-time system my SG uses to track me, and a 5-step drafting framework.

How I pitched the ICJ AO at the UNPFII, why nobody is talking about UN80, the dinner that changed the campaign.

I negotiated Indigenous rights into 3 treaties using 4 questions. Here they are.

Why countries face ZERO consequences for ignoring UNDRIP, the playbook built to ignore FPIC, and 4 questions that fix a training on Indigenous rights.

Finding the Indigenous angle in rooms that do not mention it, why one big lever is a trap, and the zone 1 rule I learned from marathon runners.

How to flip the burden of proof on IP as well as lc, a recipe for diplomacy, and building a cheat sheet for the UNPFII.

How I get instructions from the Alifuru Council, why most Indigenous Peoples skip this step, and the ICJ project I am taking to the UNPFII.

I asked 3 questions in the room and IPLC disappeared from the draft.

How I read a room without being in it, why GVA breaks diplomats faster than NYC, and the meeting that changed my calendar.

The ICJ project nobody knows about, how I phase 6 months of negotiations, and why the Pandemic Treaty might stall.

The Sawdust Technique, how I enter a negotiation mid-stream, why a qualifier saved FPIC.

I spent 6 years responding to the wrong comments. Here is how I stopped.

End of BBNJ PrepCom 3 (First Reaction)

Protecting both sides of UNDRIP, and FPIC breaks down at V2.5.

Kava + Ambassador, red line on self-selection, diplomacy Is like dating.

The phone charger trick, 3 rules for tweaking UN text, and 1 minute is all you need.

The old UN playbook is dead. Here is the one that works in 2026.

3 options for the ocean treaty data system. One is a trap. Here is which one.

Two rooms with 1 laptop, the two-chamber idea, and the instinct that built the framework.

The observer fight, the Trust Fund almost slipped, and "always on".

The UN is changing Indigenous mechanisms (Here's how)

Indigenous diplomacy training, TK safeguards, pattern recognition = cheat code.

The Indigenous Advisory Mechanism came up, how I answer States in real time, planning your exit.

The UN80 text is out (with some wins), BBNJ COP1 is on the horizon.

I found language in a 2026 UN doc that was written in 1992. It was eroding our position.

Stop copying last year's playbook, the books I read this week, and not all UN decisions are created equal.

80% stat debunked, conservation papers w/o exit ramp.

Non-Indigenous saying Ryukyu's are NOT Indigenous, and a bit of BBNJ stuff.

What the UN80 brawl meant, how to read a country, and why Gulf countries won't accept Indigenous.

Going to Vienna for Coca, stopped by a PR, my cheatsheet for BBNJ PrepCom 3.

👋 Start here

UN80: What the negotiations map looks like.

7 states backed us. 1 objected. I had the perfect response ready. I kept it shut.

These countries will never accept collective rights, a civil society mistake, and "Indigineity".

Secretly recording informals, blanket mandate cuts, and the battles we don't suit up for.

A missed informal, the WhatsAppification of diplomacy, and why I record everything.

From My Phone to the Negotiating Floor, the WHO Pathogen Text, and the UN80 Submission Clock.

The Indigenous UN80 pack, weaponized consensus, conflation at 2nd reading.

I watched 3 types of people pull down our youth at the UN. Here is what they look like.

I had 40 meetings so you can tackle 2026 without guessing. Here's the intel.

Latin at 9am, support someone else's language first, the declaration that will travel

Three resolutions at 9am one chair, the climate SR's consultation, UN80 showing up in every paragraph

UN80 is a sunset machine, the March 12 deadline, fix the overlap before they do

A resolution nobody saw coming, three hours on one text, students who stayed after

The flex becomes a target, UNCCD wants a caucus, 190 unread emails

Indigenous Peoples were listed before NGOs. No resolution made it happen.

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

I was right. 2 words killed it. Here is why.

When a room stops performing, the note-taking hack, another silent win for enhanced participation.

I shaped WHO treaty language from across town. Here's how.

States copy-pasted UNDRIP last week. This is the danger.

51 years of precedent. BBNJ is ignoring all of it.

The Indigenous Caucus: Your Power Move in UN Spaces (That Nobody Explained to You)

A treaty locking in 2029 is being written now. Nobody told you.

I spent 6 years on Article 6. The words were the easy part.

🌿 Article 6

🎯 UNDRIP20

2026 is not 2024. Here is what changed.

1 campaign. 4 rooms. That is my entire 2026.