Complementary resource --- Thank you Katharina for the quotation and the interesting question! From my point of view, the role of indigenous knowledge in science diplomacy is as complementary resource to "scientific" knowledge to address global challenges as climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental issues (to name a few). Bringing together indigenous knowledge and science represents an innovative response for the monitoring and risk reduction of phenomena, as well as the development of adapting and sustainable options. And I think this traditional-scientific knowledge interaction has its place at the negotiations tables, whether to establish and support international scientific collaborations, or to improve relations between countries or regions, or to provide new data at the decision-making level, without forgetting its role in the recognition of indigenous rights at the local-global level.

Source author: Aura Fossati aura.fossati@gmail.com