MOVING MOUNTAINS
SUMMIT 2024
Hatun Tinkuy

December 7-10  |  Huaraz, Peru

The Moving Mountains Summit leverages the combined power of local and Indigenous knowledge, western science, policy and advocacy to address mountain sustainability and justice in the face of rapid climate change.

Take action with global mountain stakeholders

Hatun Tinkuy 2024 is organized by Instituto de Montaña in collaboration with the Asociación Bartolomé Aripaylla de Ayacucho in Peru and Mountain Sentinels. Join academics, practitioners, educators, students, decision-makers, community knowledge holders and Indigenous rights-holders from 18 networks across six continents and 50+ countries as we build pathways to sustainability across mountain systems worldwide.

Together, we can move mountains.

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December 7-10, 2024
Huarez, Peru
The Mountain Peoples’ Summit

Hatun Tinkuy: Mountain Peoples’ Summit is a stimulus to establish a permanent mechanism for diálogo de saberes or dialogue of Indigenous and western science knowledges. The meaning of Tinkuy in Quechua is “point of encounter of forces that complement,” for example, the point at which two rivers merge or form a new one. The meaning of Hatun in Quechua is “elevated, high place, superior.” The 2024 Summit recognizes the importance and need to elevate Indigenous knowledges to the center of science and policy dialogue for mountains.

The future vision and roadmap will be guided by a commitment to decolonization and efforts rooted in a collaborative science with society approach.

We envision transforming mountain science and sustainable development to be more collaborative, just, impactful, and based on multiple values and knowledge systems.

Hatun Tinkuy 2024 will continue an initiative aimed at identifying and implementing pathways to sustainability across mountain systems worldwide. In doing so, we will address four critical knowledge gaps for mountain sustainability:

  1. Contributions of local and Indigenous knowledge to adaptation and transformation.
  2. Nature-based solutions for climate change in mountain systems.
  3. Approaches to strengthen local governance, and build equitable partnerships for sustainable livelihoods and policy.
  4. Synthesis across diverse mountain contexts of transformative pathways.

The meeting will also offer an opportunity to further the thematic groups co-identified at our 2022 Summit: ethical space for research and data governance, climate action and nature-based solutions, sustainable livelihoods, youth and intergenerational engagement, and community-focused governance.

The Moving Mountains Summit will host activities that showcase, learn, build, engage, and evaluate:

  • Showcase: We will share existing innovations and success stories, building off local and Indigenous expertise and other approaches. Our Mountain Showcase will highlight research, practice, creative works, and products as the basis to chart actions.
  • Learn: We will provide opportunities for in-depth learning and reflection about topics of interest to participants. Topics may include nature-based solutions, carbon management, social innovation and change, Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks, Collective Impact, and diverse knowledge and value systems.
  • Build: We will create a shared plan with defined strategies, metrics, and partnerships for the future. The outputs will include a shared vision, goals, and a co-produced initial action plan. We will also form thematic communities of interest and regional learning-action collaboratories.
  • Engage: The Summit will include diverse pathways for community-building and engagement, including dynamic discussions and hands-on working groups, time outdoors and social time with an evening of mountain-inspired music and celebration.
  • Evaluate: We will create daily opportunities for individual and group reflections on the Summit process, goals, action plan and ways forward.

Hatun Tinkuy 2024 will be held in three languages: Quechua, Spanish, and English, since not all the communities present are Quechua speakers. Translators will be present.

After international participation in the 2022 “UN Year for Sustainable Mountain Development,” and the Moving Mountains Summit in the United States, we must continue to build connections among and across mountain communities. The Summit will bring voices across the region and the world together.

Participating mountain communities will articulate their position on the challenges and possibilities of transformation of mountain peoples in the Andes and Latin America. In the spirit of reciprocity, global participants will share lessons and effective practices, partnerships, and approaches. Following the initial meeting in the United States and this meeting in Peru, we will plan subsequent meetings in Asia and Africa.

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