Lidia Cano Pecharroman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), Graduate Student
London School of Economics and Political Science, Research and Innovation, Project Officer and Researcher
Lidia specialises in governance issues at the intersection of natural resources management, security, and conflict resolution.
Previously, Lidia was a consultant and researcher providing research and analysis to governments, international organisations and the private sector. Along those lines, she collaborated as an attorney and researcher with the UC Berkeley Center for the Law, Energy and Environment, as well as at Radon Law Offices and the Natural Resources and Governance Institute, but her research has also served different UN agencies and governments.
Lidia was a Fulbright Scholar and Research Fellow for the Columbia University Women, Peace and Security program working on issues related to gender, security and natural resources exploitation in Mozambique. She has also worked on the design of conflict prevention strategies for the mining sector and on land allocation processes in Latin America, and on a solar energy venture in Pakistan. Before her masters at Columbia University she worked on Nature Rights and environmental conflicts at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Division for Sustainable Development, and monitoring peacekeeping missions at the UN Operations and Crisis Center.
Lidia holds an MIA from Columbia University with a concentration on Energy and Natural Resources Management and a specialisation in International Conflict Resolution, and a Masters in International Affairs and African Studies by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and New York University and a Law Degree by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, she is a member of the Madrid Bar Association. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and has a working capacity in French.
Address: New York, New York, United States
Previously, Lidia was a consultant and researcher providing research and analysis to governments, international organisations and the private sector. Along those lines, she collaborated as an attorney and researcher with the UC Berkeley Center for the Law, Energy and Environment, as well as at Radon Law Offices and the Natural Resources and Governance Institute, but her research has also served different UN agencies and governments.
Lidia was a Fulbright Scholar and Research Fellow for the Columbia University Women, Peace and Security program working on issues related to gender, security and natural resources exploitation in Mozambique. She has also worked on the design of conflict prevention strategies for the mining sector and on land allocation processes in Latin America, and on a solar energy venture in Pakistan. Before her masters at Columbia University she worked on Nature Rights and environmental conflicts at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Division for Sustainable Development, and monitoring peacekeeping missions at the UN Operations and Crisis Center.
Lidia holds an MIA from Columbia University with a concentration on Energy and Natural Resources Management and a specialisation in International Conflict Resolution, and a Masters in International Affairs and African Studies by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and New York University and a Law Degree by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, she is a member of the Madrid Bar Association. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and has a working capacity in French.
Address: New York, New York, United States
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69/224, in which the Assembly requested the President of the Assembly to convene, at its sixty-ninth session, an inclusive and interactive dialogue on Harmony with Nature to commemorate International Mother Earth Day, in April 2015, and the requested Secretary-General to submit a report to it on the implementation of the resolution at its seventieth session. The report of the Secretary-General focuses on the relationship between humanity and nature, and provides an exploration of ways to achieve the sustainable development goals, including addressing climate change in the post-2015 development agenda through Harmony with Nature, as was reflected in
the interactive dialogue in April 2015.
and advancing the evolving post-2015 sustainable development agenda. The report draws on a range of country experiences and a series of case
studies commissioned through the UNDP-DESA-UNEP Joint Programme Supporting a Green Economy Transition in Developing Countries and LDCs:
Building Towards Rio+20 and Beyond, with the generous support of the Government of The Netherlands. Its non-prescriptive findings are designed
to inform country-led efforts to transition to greener, more inclusive economies in ways that deliver on poverty reduction.
making in its water sector, it must begin by developing
decision-driven data systems. In order to be useful for decision
making, data must not only be open and transparent,
but must also be presented in a way that is relevant
to the needs of decision makers.
This report presents a case for basing the development of
data systems upon end users’ needs; describes a process
for engaging stakeholders in the assessment of data needs
and the design of a data system; and summarizes lessons
emerging from the engagement process. The goal of the
report is to support California’s efforts to make the most
of AB 1755. In concert with other efforts, we seek to
develop an inclusive and actionable vision for the future
of water data in California. This requires understanding,
articulating, and communicating decision makers’ processes,
and using these requirements to inform the design
of data systems.
Papers by Lidia Cano Pecharroman
Civil society has always been with us. In fact, it has been present in some way since the earliest forms of human society, although the term is of recent origin. Greek philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle, were already speaking about forms of civil society. They describe citizens as persons who engage in the life of the polis and care about its development. Athenian society is never depicted as complacent or passive. They tell stories of citizens with distinct interests and a willingness to fight for them, including through public citizen forums such as the agora. Yet not until hundreds of years later, in the middle of the 18th century, did a formal concept of civil society begin to be defined. John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Government, expresses his belief that a government derives from an agreement or social contract among men who agree to give up life in the state of nature, with its risks to survival-like war and civil disturbance, in favor of a more secure life in a civil society. Hegel defines it as a dialectical relationship that occurs between the macro-community of the state and the micro-community of the family. Rousseau goes so far as to equate civil society with the state. This discussion was reignited in the 20th century, during the 1980s, with the development of glasnost in the Soviet Union, the rapid expansion of economic globalization, and the rise of new civil movements across the world. From ancient Greece to modern times, civil society has been present and has fostered development and stability across nations. Political theorists have shown on the basis of repeated historical experience that civil society plays a critical role in giving legitimacy to the state and also gives rise to movements that delegitimize states that do not follow or address their citizen's will. It is an engineering concept, or a feedback mechanism between citizens and governments. People everywhere have grievances, and they naturally want to air them; they want to be heard. Moreover, state policies and laws are effective only when they are endorsed and accepted by a state's citizens, so politicians who are committed to democracy and long-term stability have a vested interest in strengthening and maintaining wellfounded civil societies. A well-developed civil society can protect the state from economic and political crisis and can foster innovation and social improvement. In the words of former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, civil society is the oxygen of democracy as it acts as a catalyst for social progress and economic growth. But the actions of civil society can interfere with vested interests. It is therefore not surprising that many governments have sought to suppress civil society. Governments worldwide are increasingly carrying out a crackdown on civil society, adopting subtle, but deleterious techniques, which, if not countered, could over time have negative consequences for the development, as well as the stability of their nations. Given the complexity of civil society, research on this field is lacking, and it is difficult to reach clear uniform conclusions about the importance of civil society. This paper is an attempt to lay out some of the main functions and benefits of civil society, show the ways in which governments worldwide are cracking down on it, and propose recommendations on how governments can benefit from a good relationship with civil society by permitting it to act as a valve that will let off social tensions and promote growth and social stability. But this means all voices need to be heard.
Conference Presentations by Lidia Cano Pecharroman
This study aims at completing the proposed indicators to measure SDG 16 using robust data analysis methods. The improved indicators will provide governments with a more accurate tool to measure the progress towards a peaceful and just society in their countries. In the Annex 1 we include a practical example of how these indicators could be measured in a member state, including the data sources that would be used to measure each of the indicators.
Teaching Documents by Lidia Cano Pecharroman
69/224, in which the Assembly requested the President of the Assembly to convene, at its sixty-ninth session, an inclusive and interactive dialogue on Harmony with Nature to commemorate International Mother Earth Day, in April 2015, and the requested Secretary-General to submit a report to it on the implementation of the resolution at its seventieth session. The report of the Secretary-General focuses on the relationship between humanity and nature, and provides an exploration of ways to achieve the sustainable development goals, including addressing climate change in the post-2015 development agenda through Harmony with Nature, as was reflected in
the interactive dialogue in April 2015.
and advancing the evolving post-2015 sustainable development agenda. The report draws on a range of country experiences and a series of case
studies commissioned through the UNDP-DESA-UNEP Joint Programme Supporting a Green Economy Transition in Developing Countries and LDCs:
Building Towards Rio+20 and Beyond, with the generous support of the Government of The Netherlands. Its non-prescriptive findings are designed
to inform country-led efforts to transition to greener, more inclusive economies in ways that deliver on poverty reduction.
making in its water sector, it must begin by developing
decision-driven data systems. In order to be useful for decision
making, data must not only be open and transparent,
but must also be presented in a way that is relevant
to the needs of decision makers.
This report presents a case for basing the development of
data systems upon end users’ needs; describes a process
for engaging stakeholders in the assessment of data needs
and the design of a data system; and summarizes lessons
emerging from the engagement process. The goal of the
report is to support California’s efforts to make the most
of AB 1755. In concert with other efforts, we seek to
develop an inclusive and actionable vision for the future
of water data in California. This requires understanding,
articulating, and communicating decision makers’ processes,
and using these requirements to inform the design
of data systems.
Civil society has always been with us. In fact, it has been present in some way since the earliest forms of human society, although the term is of recent origin. Greek philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle, were already speaking about forms of civil society. They describe citizens as persons who engage in the life of the polis and care about its development. Athenian society is never depicted as complacent or passive. They tell stories of citizens with distinct interests and a willingness to fight for them, including through public citizen forums such as the agora. Yet not until hundreds of years later, in the middle of the 18th century, did a formal concept of civil society begin to be defined. John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Government, expresses his belief that a government derives from an agreement or social contract among men who agree to give up life in the state of nature, with its risks to survival-like war and civil disturbance, in favor of a more secure life in a civil society. Hegel defines it as a dialectical relationship that occurs between the macro-community of the state and the micro-community of the family. Rousseau goes so far as to equate civil society with the state. This discussion was reignited in the 20th century, during the 1980s, with the development of glasnost in the Soviet Union, the rapid expansion of economic globalization, and the rise of new civil movements across the world. From ancient Greece to modern times, civil society has been present and has fostered development and stability across nations. Political theorists have shown on the basis of repeated historical experience that civil society plays a critical role in giving legitimacy to the state and also gives rise to movements that delegitimize states that do not follow or address their citizen's will. It is an engineering concept, or a feedback mechanism between citizens and governments. People everywhere have grievances, and they naturally want to air them; they want to be heard. Moreover, state policies and laws are effective only when they are endorsed and accepted by a state's citizens, so politicians who are committed to democracy and long-term stability have a vested interest in strengthening and maintaining wellfounded civil societies. A well-developed civil society can protect the state from economic and political crisis and can foster innovation and social improvement. In the words of former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, civil society is the oxygen of democracy as it acts as a catalyst for social progress and economic growth. But the actions of civil society can interfere with vested interests. It is therefore not surprising that many governments have sought to suppress civil society. Governments worldwide are increasingly carrying out a crackdown on civil society, adopting subtle, but deleterious techniques, which, if not countered, could over time have negative consequences for the development, as well as the stability of their nations. Given the complexity of civil society, research on this field is lacking, and it is difficult to reach clear uniform conclusions about the importance of civil society. This paper is an attempt to lay out some of the main functions and benefits of civil society, show the ways in which governments worldwide are cracking down on it, and propose recommendations on how governments can benefit from a good relationship with civil society by permitting it to act as a valve that will let off social tensions and promote growth and social stability. But this means all voices need to be heard.
This study aims at completing the proposed indicators to measure SDG 16 using robust data analysis methods. The improved indicators will provide governments with a more accurate tool to measure the progress towards a peaceful and just society in their countries. In the Annex 1 we include a practical example of how these indicators could be measured in a member state, including the data sources that would be used to measure each of the indicators.