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An assessment of social negotiation as a tool of local management: a case study of the Dimako Council Forest, Cameroon

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Title An assessment of social negotiation as a tool of local management: a case study of the Dimako Council Forest, Cameroon
 
Creator Assembe-Mvondo, S.
Oyono, P.R.
 
Subject resource management
methodology
social interaction
pluralism
conflicts
forest resources
customary law
local people
utilization
 
Description Access to natural resource is governed by competition and conflicts all the over the world. Alternative approaches to conflict resolution require assets provided by social negotiation, mediation and other types of social tools. This paper is based on a case of conflict of access to forest and on the use of social negotiation to solve it. It shows how a facilitation process enabled village communities of East Cameroon to secure a portion of forest in the northern part of the already classified Dimako council forest. The most meaningful result of this case study is the recognition and the rehabilitation, or the validation, of a community-based tool of social negotiation known as palabre traditionnelle (traditional arrangements and mediation), not recognized until now by mainstream science, conventional methodologies, forestry experts and policy makers in Cameroon.
 
Date 2004
2012-06-04T09:09:11Z
2012-06-04T09:09:11Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Assembe Mvondo, S., Oyono, P.R. 2004. An assessment of social negotiation as a tool of local management: a case study of the Dimako Council Forest, Cameroon . Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 19 (Supplement no.4) :78-84.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19176
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1742
 
Language en
 
Format p. 78-84
 
Source Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research