R SOC375 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joint Forest Management, Northern Canada, Natural Resource

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC375
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Indigenous people and co-management: implications for conflict management. Defined as: any relationship between opposing forces whether marked by violence or not. Each party wants to pursue its own interests to the full, and in doing so ends up contradicting, compromising, or even defeating the interest of the other. If not addressed, can threaten the whole society. Conflictual situations are neither positive or negative but can be used in a constructive or destructive way. Conflicts are crucial for social change and continuous creation of society by society itself. Conflicts should be viewed as an opportunity for constructive changes and growth. Management agreements between indigenous people, other stakeholders state agencies offer a way in dealing with natural resource-based conflicts. However co-management agreements can also set into motion new conflicts or cause old ones to escalate. All introduced co-management regimes as a means to address conflict between the national government ridiculous people and other stakeholders over access and use of natural resources.