Ravi de Costa is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. His work centres on the institutional and cultural contexts of Indigenous-settler relations in Australia and Canada, with publications on treaty-making, reconciliation and apologies, and conflicts over land. He currently holds a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard (SSHRC) grant to examine the work of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has also written extensively on the global movement of Indigenous peoples and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.