Understanding and Resolving Conflict Between Local Communities and Conservation Authorities in Colombia

Pourcq, Kobe De; Thomas, Evert; Arts, B.J.M.; Vranckx, An; León-Sicard, Tomás Enrique; Damme, Patrick Van

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.026

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“…Although there is a large body of literature on conservation conflicts (see Redpath et al 2015a for the latest monography), most of these studies lack a solid theoretical foundation (Yusran et al 2017). One of many potential reasons for this situation is the prevailing tendency of researchers to focus on the managerial or behavioural aspects of conservation conflicts (Baynham-Herd et al 2018;De Pourcq et al 2017;Ravenelle and Nyhus 2017;Young et al 2016b) that are often contextdependent (Dickman 2010;Hellström 2001;Madden and McQuinn 2014;Manfredo and Dayer 2004). This is in contrast to another potential approach aiming at developing frameworks that can address the challenge of context dependence.…”

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Protected area conflicts: a state-of-the-art review and a proposed integrated conceptual framework for reclaiming the role of geography

2019

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Despite the recent paradigmatic shift in conservation science, protected areas (PAs), which are associated with seminal conservation strategies, remain a key tool for achieving biodiversity conservation. Nevertheless, PAs' effectiveness as conservation measures is undermined by conflicts arising within their socio-ecological systems. Potential reasons for the negative impact of the conflicts include the tendency of researchers to emphasise managerial or behavioural aspects of conservation conflicts, while neglecting to develop theoretical foundations for conflict analysis. We aimed to critically review existing conceptual frameworks applied within the broadly defined field of conservation conflicts and to develop a new more comprehensive framework that better reflects contemporary identified challenges within nature conservation. We particularly proposed and emphasised the integration of a geographical perspective within existing interdisciplinary approaches for the application to PA settings. We systemised and unified conflict-related terminology, assessed the contributions and limitations of existing frameworks and identified critical gaps in the field. These gaps are: inadequate recognition of the spatial aspects of conflict analysis, a lack of consistency between individual-level and community-level frameworks and a lack of systematic linkages among the main structural attributes of conflicts, such as determinants, interests or types of conflicts. We systematically distinguished 26 conflict-related terms, including: conflict frames, images, orientations, factors, categories, issues, potential, or intensity. Our framework covers three major conflict components (determinants, dimensions, levels) and foregrounds the socio-psychological and spatial characteristics of PA conflicts, while enabling systemisation of existing conservation conflict typologies.

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Protected area conflicts: a state-of-the-art review and a proposed integrated conceptual framework for reclaiming the role of geography

2019

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“…During the opening ceremony of the second Colombian Protected Areas Congress “Protected areas: territories for peace and life”, held in Bogotá in 2014, a Kogi indigenous leader from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta demanded that traditional authorities be recognised as central to the discussion of the use and management of ancestral territories located in the Sierra Nevada National Natural Park. His message reflects a long history of conflicts between communities and protected areas in Colombia (Andrade, ; Bocarejo & Ojeda, ; De Pourcq et al., ; Ojeda, ). He was followed by an Afro‐descendant leader from the Gulf of Tribugá, who called for support for the declaration of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) to defend his collective territory from the destructive impacts of industrial fisheries (this MPA was established in late 2014).…”

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Fluid geographies: Marine territorialisation and the scaling up of local aquatic epistemologies on the Pacific coast of Colombia

Satizábal

Batterbury

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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The Pacific region of Colombia, like many sparsely populated places in developing countries, has been imagined as empty in social terms, and yet full in terms of natural resources and biodiversity. These imaginaries have enabled the creation of frontiers of land and sea control, where the state as well as private and illegal actors have historically dispossessed Afro‐descendant and indigenous peoples. This paper contributes to the understanding of territorialisation in the oceans, where political and legal framings of the sea as an open‐access public good have neglected the existence of marine social processes. It shows how Afro‐descendant communities and non‐state actors are required to use the language of resources, rather than socio‐cultural attachment, to negotiate state marine territorialisation processes. Drawing on a case study on the Pacific coast of Colombia, we demonstrate that Afro‐descendant communities hold local aquatic epistemologies, in which knowledge and the production of space are entangled in fluid and volumetric spatio‐temporal dynamics. However, despite the social importance of aquatic environments, they were excluded from Afro‐descendants' collective territorial rights in the 1990s. Driven by their local aquatic epistemologies, coastal communities are reclaiming authority over the seascape through the creation of a marine protected area. We argue that they have transformed relations of authority at sea to ensure local access and control, using state institutional instruments to subvert and challenge the legal framing of the sea as an open access public good. As such, this marine protected area represents a place of resistance that ironically subjects coastal communities to disciplinary technologies of conservation.

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“…From several previous kinds of research on conflict, customary law and kinship, it can be concluded that indigenous peoples tend to overcome conflicts using customary law based on kinship system [11,12,13]. In this case, they are mediated by indigenous leaders who are neutral then sought the base of the problem and its intersection.…”

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The Role of the Kinship System in Social Conflict Resolvment in Indigenous People of KEI

Subekti¹,

Budiana²,

Yusup³

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Environmental Science, Society, and Technology, WESTECH 2018, December 8th, 2

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The people of Kei comply the patrilineal kinship system which refers to the father lineage. The essence of the Kei customs is kinship. Kinship in Kei society is understood in a broad sense that covers all dimensions of human life and is not limited to biological kinship. The spirit of kinship and family relationship in Kei, which is bound by customary law, is manifested in the relations of Yanur-Mangohoi, Koi-Maduan, and Teabel. This research uses descriptive method with qualitative data obtained through interview and observation. The informants were chosen purposively with criteria: society leaders and customary figures who understood the customs of Kei people.The kinship of Kei society as described above have some similarities to the basic idea of collective living, the spirit of solidarity and kinship, and prioritizing a brotherhood in the family. The customary agreement conditions all people to help each other and take care of others as their own family. Everyone is tied up in kinship relationships regardless the religion. Social problems which often occur such as disputes between members or teenagers are resolved in familial way. Otherwise, the settlement will be done customarily and this customary law applies to all villages/ohoi in Kei in general.

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Understanding and Resolving Conflict Between Local Communities and Conservation Authorities in Colombia

Cited by 93 publications

References 33 publications

Protected area conflicts: a state-of-the-art review and a proposed integrated conceptual framework for reclaiming the role of geography

Protected area conflicts: a state-of-the-art review and a proposed integrated conceptual framework for reclaiming the role of geography

Fluid geographies: Marine territorialisation and the scaling up of local aquatic epistemologies on the Pacific coast of Colombia

The Role of the Kinship System in Social Conflict Resolvment in Indigenous People of KEI

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