[Gender] HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONSERVATION: a reminder and more specifics on the forthcoming special issue of POLICY MATTERS

[Paula Zuñiga]

Dear colleagues,

In November 2006 we sent out a call for papers for the next issue of the
IUCN/CEESP journal, Policy Matters, on the topic of "Conservation and Human
Rights".  This forthcoming issue will be no.15 and is expected in press by
early May 2007.   We are writing again now to thank those of you who have
sent a notice of intent to submit articles, and to encourage everyone else
who has been just thinking about it... or who might be deciding to write a
submission as a good start of the New Year (great subject for your early New
Year reflections!).  If you are ready for it, just send a line to Jessica
Campese (jessica at cenesta.org) and let her know of your good proposition.

We encourage the submission of short communications, fully fledged articles,
book reviews, event notices and even relevant stand alone pictures (with
meaningful caption and credits). Please see the attached revised call for
the types of broad questions/ issues that articles may wish to address.
The call for paper includes the guidelines for authors, which we ask you
please to follow scrupulously if you wish your submission to be taken into
consideration.   

As a result of the analysis of early submissions and discussions among the
co-editors, we would like to particularly encourage:

1.      articles related to private sector impacts on both human rights and
the environment

2.      articles related to conservation as a positive input towards
fulfilling human rights

3.      articles related to a historical approach to human rights and
conservation (e.g., some maintain that the difference between the fauna
present today in East and West Africa is an indirect result of the hunting
rights gained by the commoners through the French Revolution... anyone to
pick this up?)

4.      articles on conservation and rights of first, second and third
generation

5.      articles on conservation and intra- and inter-generational rights

6.      articles on how and why Community Conserved Areas do (or do not)
constitute an example of human-rights approach to conservation

7.      articles in Spanish and French

8.      articles written in partnership/ collaboration between authors from
the South and North

9.      articles reviewing relevant assessment, monitoring, and evaluation
approaches and tools that might be adopted by conservation organizations

10. comparative analyses of human rights and conservation situations (i.e.,
how do the key dimensions of human rights/ conservation differ across
regions?) 

11. articles examining lessons learned in rights-based approaches adopted in
development initiatives

12. articles examining conceptual issues, such as: 

*      what characterises a "human rights approach" to conservation?

*      how do human rights approaches differ from/ relate to rights-based
approaches? 

*      how do rights-based approaches differ from socially responsible,
pro-poor, or other socially oriented conservation approaches? 

13. reviews of books dealing with the interface conservation--human rights

14. pictures illustrating situations, events, processes, struggles and
achievements related to conservation and human rights   

Please remember that the submission deadline remains January 28, 2007.  If a
short delay will make the difference for you about being able to send an
article, please do not hesitate to let us know and we will do the possible
and the impossible to accommodate you.

We hope that, with your inputs, PM 15 will illuminate promises and
challenges, encourage improvements in conservation and human rights, and
prove useful towards the development of better policies and practices for
IUCN and for conservation scientists, practitioners and organisations at
large.  

Thanks in advance and a fulfilling New Year to you all! 

Grazia and Jessica


(also on behalf of the co-editors Marcus Colchester, Michelle de Cordova,
Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, Armelle Guignier, Robert Monro and Gonzalo Oviedo) 
 
Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
Chair, TGER and Co-chair, TILCEPA - CEESP
<http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/index.html> )
e mail: <gbf at cenesta.org> 

Jessica Campese
Fulbright Fellow and TGER Intern
e mail:  <jessica at cenesta.org>  

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