Sudamérica y desarrollo rural el 2009
Oscar Bazoberry Chali[*]
El año 2008, a diferencia de los años anteriores, nos dejó distintas constataciones para tomar en cuenta.
Land rights in postwar Liberia: The volatile
part of the peace process. Land Use Policy 26 (2009) 425–433
Territorial Tensions: Rainforest Conservation, Postconflict Recovery, and
Land Tenure in Liberia
Leif Brottem a; Jon Unruh b
a Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison b Department of Geography, McGill
University,
Unruh JD (2009) Humanitarian approaches to conflict and post-conflict legal pluralism in land tenure. In: Pantuliano S (ed). Uncharted territory Land, conflict and humanitarian action. Practical Action Publishers, Warwickshire, UK.
While extensively occurring natural resources play a fundamental role in the survival and recovery of postwar populations, their management is not presently part of the operational priorities in a peace process. Dependence on naturally occurring food, fuel, water, secure locations, and products that can be obtained and sold quickly for dislocated, war-weary populations is a primary approach to postwar livelihoods. The peace process however focuses on the logistical and institutional aspects of security, demobilization, reintegration and humanitarian efforts.
Peacebuilding in conflict-prone or post-conflict countries -- such as East Timor, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone -- aims to prevent the re-emergence or escalation of violent conflict and establish a durable peace. This volume explores and critiquesthe 'liberal' premise of contemporary peacebuilding: the promotion of democracy, market-based economic reforms and a range of other institutions associated with 'modern' states as a driving force for building peace.
El Grupo de Trabajo Intercultural Almáciga (España) con el apoyo de la Oficina de Derechos Humanos ha elaborado un informe que resume las principales actividades relacionadas con derechos de los pueblos indígenas que se han llevado a cabo en el marco del Consejo de Derechos Humanos (CDH) de las Naciones Unidas a lo largo del año 2008. La información se refiere a tres aspectos del trabajo del CDH. En primer city, la presentación del informe del Relator Especial sobre la situación de los derechos humanos y libertades fundamentales de los indígenas, Dr.
¿Nuevo ciclo de reformas agrarias en América Latina?
Miguel Urioste[*]
14 de noviembre de 2008
It is almost a decade now since the fights between Pastoralists and peasants broke out in Kilosa district Morogoro region in December 2000 claiming tens of people’s lives and causing irreparable losses and damages their properties. While the wounds of that dark record are still fresh in some of the minds of the communities in Kilosa, another very serious fight between the same or rather similar groups occurred this October prompting the media and human rights activists to find some ways to intervene in a bid to find lasting solutions for the problems.
Land is the centre of most conflicts in Northeast India because of its importance in the life of the people of the region, particularly its tribal communities. It is also the resource most under attack, in the tribal areas in particular.
This book contains studies papers conducted by a group of researchers on land alienation in different states of the Northeast in 2005-2006.
The book attempt to understand the processes that result in tribal land alienation and the consequent conflicts in the region.
Anthony Bebbington, Universidad de Manchester y Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/andes/es
Agradezco a Oscar Bazoberry por la invitación de preparar esta nota, a Denise Humphreys Bebbington por sus comentarios e inspiración y a Fernando Eguren por las muchas conversaciones que hemos tenido sobre lo rural.