Alejandro Fuentes, a senior researcher at RWI, has written a research brief, a summary of a larger research paper that he first presented at the 12th Annual European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference on “How International Law Works in Times of Crisis”. It was held on 8-10 September 2016 in Riga,Latvia. The brief is titled “Exploitation of Natural Resources and Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Communal Property over Traditional Lands and Territories: A summary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ safeguards.” We caught up with him for a few minutes to ask a few questions about this research.