NVIT is proud to announce our next presenter in the NVIT Speaker Series - Dr. David Natcher  

Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Time: 4-6pm
Locaton: NVIT Merritt - Lecture Theatre

Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Time: 12-2pm
Locaton: NVIT Vancouver - BCIT Presentation Room

 

 

The Enabling Yet Insufficient Role of Conflict in Collaborative Forest Management: Lessons Learned from Alberta and Labrador

 

Abstract: Conflicts between Indigenous peoples and state governments have taken a variety of forms but perhaps most discernible have been the tensions that have arisen over access and use of natural resources. Occurring in countries throughout the world, these conflicts often arise over contested interests in lands, forests and other wildlife resources. While at times escalating into violence, conflicts over lands and resources have also led to the formation of more equitable land tenure systems and the creation of new geopolitical institutions designed in part to empower Indigenous peoples in the land management process. While serving as a catalyst for change, conflict alone has proven insufficient in sustaining the institutional arrangements that are required for actual tenure reforms to occur. Rather, issues associated with trust, collective action, gender parity, financial dependency, legitimate representation, and the authority to make and enforce rules have left tenure reforms vulnerable to failure and at risk of returning to conflict and political unrest. In this presentation David shares several cases from Canada where conflict between Indigenous communities and government have led to new forms of cooperative management and institutional innovation. He then discusses the conditions that either enabled or disenabled sustained cooperation from occurring.

 

 

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