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OTHER WORK IN FOREST CONFLICT

 

We have also received information from members of the list-serve about other relevant documents (Note: Reports from other organizations do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or ARD, Inc.):

  • Nigel Turvey's book, titled Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars documents Australia’s first conflict between ‘hippies’ and ‘loggers’ with cameos of individuals from both sides. You can see more about this book, read extracts and order online by going to www.ipoz.biz/titles/tc.htm.
  • Chatham House has launched a website (http://www.illegal-logging.info/) that highlights issues related to illegal logging. The purpose of their site is to provide background information on the key issues in the illegal logging debate, together with news stories, information on events, key documents and links to other relevant websites.
  • Environment, Conflict and Cooperation's website (www.ecc-platform.org) functions as a clearinghouse and platform of exchange on environment, conflict, and cooperation. It aims to foster sustainable peace by creating networks among stakeholders from the development, environment, foreign and security communities worldwide.
  • The International Institute for Sustainable Development's Linkages website is a multimedia resource for policy and development issues, including forests.
  • The Forestry Research Programme of the UK's Department for International Development has been suporting research in Nepal that provides a slightly different perspective on the relationship between forest use and conflict. This study sought to understand how the escalating violent conflict in Nepal has affected the livelihoods of the poor. Traditional rural livelihood opportunites such as the collection and marketing of non-timber forest products have been seriously disrupted. A copy of the report prepared by ForestAction, Nepal, entitled Caught in the Cross-fire.
  • The WWF's Global Forests Trade Network has several useful documents and links (http://www.gftn.org/)
  • CIFOR's governance brief on Forestry Sector Conflict in Indonesia: Yuliana Cahya Wulan, Yurdi Yasmi, Christian Purba and Eva Wollenberg, An Analysis of Forestry Sector Conflict in Indonesia (1997-2003): http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/govbrief/GovBrief0401.pdf. The full report in Bahasa: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/BWulan0401I0.pdf.
  • The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has produced several documents about forestry and conflict management: http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp? siteId=1760&sitetreeId=8307&langId=1&geoId=0
  • CIFOR, Forest Watch Indonesia, Wageningen University and Ford Foundation Jakarta have developed a conflict database and carried out 6 cases studies across Indonesia: Wulan, Y.C.; Yasmi, Y.; Purba, C.; Wollenberg, E. 2004. An Analysis of Forestry Sector Conflict in Indonesia (1997-2003), English version, and Indonesian.
  • International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) has just released its newly designed and user-friendly website: www.iufro.org. Their newsletter, distributed 10 times a year, is accessible from the website.
  • The “Small Grants Programme for Operations to Promote Tropical Forests” (SGP PTF) is a European Commission (EC)-funded initiative implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and executed by the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). Mark Sandiford, the Regional Programme Coordinator provided the following brief: SGP PTF Update.
  • Friends of the Earth commissioned a study on the social and ecological impacts of large-scale oil palm plantation development in Southeast Asia, "Greasy Palms," by Eric Wakker, AIDEnvironment, in collaboration with Sawit Watch Indonesia and Joanna de Rozario. March 2004.
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