Towards a rights-based agenda in international forestry?

 

Berkeley, USA, 30-31 May 2009

University Hall, Room 150

 

Tentative Program

 

 

Saturday, May 30th

 

 

8:30     Arrivals and registration

 

9:00     Welcome and introductions

 

 

9:30     Keynote papers

 

William Sunderlin, The Evolution of Rights in the Forest: Three Critical Turning Points

 

Jesse Ribot, Rights and Stratification: Access Control and Maintenance in a Sahelian Forest

 

 

11:00   Coffee

 

 

11:30   Political organizing for forest rights

 

            Lynn Jungwirth, [tba]

 

Oliver Springate-Baginski et al., Forest Rights Reform and the State: The Political Ecology of Democratising Forest Governance in India

           

            Discussant: Jeff Romm

 

 

1:00     Lunch

 

 

2:30     Implementing rights-based approaches

 

Paul Vantomme, Implementing Rights-based Forestry Legislation in Central Africa: Lessons from Country Experience

 

Moira Moeliono and Godwin Limberg, Putting a Park in the Right Place: A rights based approach to conservation in developing countries

 

            Discussant: Louise Fortmann

 

 

4:00     Coffee

 

 

4:30     Conflicting local and global claims

 

Victoria Edwards, Multiple Use and Associated Rights: Key Issues from a Thousand Years of Institutional Evolution in the New Forest, UK

 

Stefan Dorondel, Who Benefits from the Forest? National Park, Land Reform and the Clash of Property Rights in Postsocialism

 

            Discussant: Cari Coe

 

 

7:00     Dinner at Restaurant Azerbaijan, 2175 Allston Way, (510) 704-1718

 

 

 

Sunday, May 31st

 

 

9:00     Human rights and forests

 

Shaunna Barnhart, A Right to Resources, A Right to Dignity: Community Forestry and the Promotion of Human Rights

 

Blake Ratner, Rights, Conflicts and Forest Governance in Cambodia

 

            Discussant: Nancy Peluso

 

 

10:30   Coffee

 

 

11:00   Critiquing property rights

 

Neera Singh, Democratic Spaces across Scales: Towards More Inclusive Community Forestry

 

To Xuan Phuc, How Does Forest Devolution Contribute to Agrarian Differentiation in the Vietnamese Uplands?

 

Peter Leigh Taylor, Saying ‘Enough’ in Market-Based Environmental Governance? Organizing Diversification in Community-based Forestry in the Maya Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala

 

            Discussant: Beth Rose Middleton

 

 

1:00     Lunch

 

 

2:30     Synthesis discussion

            Facilitators: Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl

 

 

4:00     Coffee

 

 

4:30     Plans for publication

 

 

5:00     Wrap-up