ETFRN NEWS 43/44:
Forests and conflicts

Organisations - Programmes

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1.Global
Forests and armed conflict, David Kaimowitz
Struggles over resource wealth and conflict, Michael Renner
Violent environments: a summary, Nancy Peluso and Michael Watts
Underlying causes of extreme conflict and tropical forests, Wil de Jong, Deanna Donovan, and Ken Ichi Abe
Reducing violent conflicts over forests, Mary Melnyk, Jay Singh, Scott Bode, Kim Sais, and Julie Kunen
Mainstreaming forest and conflict dynamics in development cooperation: a forest and conflict toolkit, Moira Feil and Olivia Voils
Protecting nature in war: how different stakeholders can help, Esther Blom
Fueling wars with conflict timber, Mike Lundberg and Alice Blondel
Beyond trees: forests, war, and uneasy peace, Kheryn Klubnikin and Douglas Causey

2. Africa
The Mano River conflicts as forest wars, Paul Richards
Conflict timber and Liberia’s war, Arthur G. Blundell
Piloting communal forests in Liberia in the post-conflict period, Jamison Suter
The causes of violent conflicts in forest regions, Jean-Richard Mutombo
Why armed conflict persists in the Kivu Region of the Congo (DRC), Robert Mwinyihali, Terese Hart, and Henri-Paul Eloma
Forestry and conservation activities during a war fought over land and resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Terese B. Hart and Robert Ducarme
Impacts of conflics on forests and people in D.R. Congo, Richard Tshombe, Terese Hart and Christien Amboya
Conflict in the Great Lakes Region: impact on conservation, Anette Lanjouw
Forestry and conservation activities in hosting refugee Areas (Kenya – Uganda), Luc Cambrézy
Nigeria: armed conflict and implications for forest management in the Niger Delta, Samuel A. Igbatayo
Natural resource management and local institutions in ‘post-conflict’ Mozambique and Ethiopia, Richard Black, Elizabeth Harrison, Jessica Schafer, and Elizabeth Watson
Deforestation, environmental insecurity, poverty and conflict in the horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, Mersie Ejigu
Reducing Conflicts through collaborative forest management in the Borana Lowlands, South Ethiopia, Ben Irwin, Gavin Jordan, Zelalem Temesgn

3. Latin America
Colombia: The many faces of the war, María D. Álvarez
Colombia: war and forests, Manuel Rodríguez Becerra
Conflict, spiritual meaning and environmental effects. Offerings made by the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Guillermo E. Rodríguez Navarro
Natural resource management in the context of the peace process in Colombia (1999-2002), Cristina Hoyos
Conservation as counter-insurgency in the Chiapas Rainforest?, Bill Weinberg
Forest use and conservation implications of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico, Mario González-Espinosa
Why is there violence in some forest areas of Mexico?, Salvador Anta Fonseca
El Balcón, Mexico, Building peace and governability around communal forests, Leticia Merino

4. Asia and the Pacific
Impact of armed conflict in community forestry in Nepal, Mani Ram Banjade and Netra Prasad Timsina
Armed conflicts and community forest user groups in Nepal: can community forestry survive and contribute to peace building at local level?, Bharat K. Pokharel and Dinesh Paudel
Livelihoods, environment and conflict in forested areas in Dir-Kohistan, Pakistan and Koraput, India, Shaheen Khan, Kundan Kumar and Richard Matthew
Forests and armed conflicts in Jammu and Kashmir in India: problems and prospects, Chetan Kumar
Effects of warfare on natural ecosystems and biodiversity in Vietnam, Dang Huy Huynh and Ho Thanh Hai
Logging in The Solomon Islands- the lost legacy, Jim Sandoms