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In the legal scholarship, the 'new governance' mode of governance advances an administrative arrangement where decision-making is shared amongst a range of actors, both public and private. The flexible, responsive, and collaborative governance orientation is intended to counter the ill effects of a coercive, top-down, state-centric, commandand-control approach to governance. Critics contend the new governance framework can displace the interests of local communities, disempower individuals, and dislodge basic human rights. The U.S. military has adopted such an adaptive approach in its own governance structure, which in this article is referred to as: the new governance "mentality." This mentality of governance was employed in the U.S.'s post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Iraq-efforts that were plagued by waste, inefficiency, and corruption. Governance scholars have yet to ask the question of what models of governance should apply in the post conflict situation where the environmental violence of war has poisoned waterscapes and degraded landscapes. Should an adaptive mode of new governance be applied in post conflict situations where public institutions are weak and beset by corruption? What is the role of the state and private actors when the war is over and the reconstruction period begins? In this article, we explore a dark side of the new governance framework through the case study of the Iraq war theatre 454 INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES 21:2 and examine how the transformed military culture shaped the 2003-2013 Coalition operations in Iraq and the reconstruction effort-in particular, the provision of safe, clean drinking water to local communities.

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<p>Dans le présent article, les autrices examinent l’absence des femmes autochtones dans les régimes de gestion participative des ressources naturelles au Canada. Les autrices considèrent la pertinence juridique et politique des récits autochtones comme une source de savoir et comme une méthode pour traiter de l’actuelle absence de participation des femmes autochtones. La gestion participative est l’instrument règlementaire dominant sur lequel s’appuient les gouvernements provinciaux et territoriaux pour gérer les ressources naturelles de concert avec les peuples autochtones. Cependant, les recherches féministes autochtones ont soulevé de sérieuses questions sur l’exclusion des femmes autochtones de la gestion publique et privée, les paramètres de leur exclusion et les conditions de rectification de cette situation. Les autrices se fondent sur les recherches féministes autochtones et sur la gestion de l’eau pour dégager trois principes d’utilisation du récit à des fins participatives : (1) les récits favorisent l’échange et le dialogue ; (2) les récits revitalisent la responsabilité des femmes de s’engager dans la gestion ; (3) les récits pluralisent les normes de gestion des ressources. En s’appuyant sur ces trois principes, les autrices formulent des recommandations politiques visant à créer un espace règlementaire permettant d’inclure le savoir, les responsabilités et les capacités des femmes autochtones à l’égard des ressources naturelles.</p> <p>In this article, the authors explore the absence of Indigenous women in participatory natural resource governance regimes in Canada. The authors consider the legal and political relevance of Indigenous stories as a source of knowledge and as a method to address the participation gap currently experienced by Indigenous women. Participatory governance is the dominant regulatory arrangement relied upon by provincial and territorial governments to manage natural resources in concert with Indigenous peoples. However, Indigenous feminist scholarship has raised serious questions about the exclusion of Indigenous women from public and private governance, the method of their exclusion, and the conditions for rectification. The authors draw on Indigenous feminist and water governance scholarship to generate three principles of storying for the purposes of participation: (1) stories facilitate exchange and dialogue; (2) stories revitalize women’s responsibility to engage in governance; and (3) stories pluralize the norms of resource governance. Relying upon these three principles, the authors put forward policy recommendations with the aim of creating the regulatory space to include Indigenous women’s knowledge, responsibilities, and capabilities with respect to natural resources.</p>

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