This will be an interactive training workshop to introduce United Nations diplomats, staff, and attendees of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to the theory and practice of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) for Indigenous Peoples as outline in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

The workshop will introduce participants to the history and theory of FPIC, detail its place in UNDRIP, and introduce dialogue skills for the practice of FPIC. The workshop will present case studies and examples of FPIC in the real-world. It will employ small group discussion, interactive exercises, and large group analysis to improve the participants understanding of FPIC and the interaction between U.N. member states and Indigenous Nations. The workshop will culminate in the participants acting out a full-scale simulated, facilitated negotiation between a U.N. member state and an Indigenous Nation.