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Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti is a Peruvian Social Anthropologist at the University of Sussex and the Center for International Forestry Research. His research and engagement activities argue for the effectiveness of rights-based approaches to development, conservation, and climate change mitigation. Juan Pablo has collaborated with Indigenous and local communities in the Peruvian Amazon for the past fifteen years, examining their experiences of rights violations and socio-environmental injustice in the context of different development and conservation initiatives and mechanisms implemented in their ancestral territories. He is also a member of SHARE-Amazónica, a collective that promotes collaborative research and action in the Peruvian Amazon. Juan Pablo’s most recent work has been published in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, World Development, and Ecology and Society, as well as in policy briefs for the Center for International Forestry Research. He completed his PhD in Social Anthropology and Amerindian Studies at the University of St Andrews, and previously held lectureships at Durham and St Andrews.