Projet de recherche :
Landscape Restoration and Peace Building: Governance Lessons from the Model Forests of Latin America
The outcome of supporting participatory, community-based governance platforms is landscape restoration guided by practices aligned with the territory’s specific characteristics. In addition, such efforts can contribute to Peacebuilding in areas where land use conflicts are intense. The doctoral research I am proposing seeks to explore in depth the experiences of two Model Forests in Latin America: The Chiquitanía Sostenible MF in Bolivia and the Pantanal MF in Brazil. Through rigorous ethnographic work, I will assess the progress made in landscape restoration and peacebuilding because of the sustained efforts to maintain these MFs over time.
The aim of this research is to thoroughly study and evaluate a social process; therefore, the approach will be qualitative, using purposive and snowball sampling to conduct semi-structured interviews, as the knowledge is concentrated among certain already-identified individuals (Bernard, 2006). The theoretical framework for exploring the concept of Peace will be based on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Community-Engaged Research; hence, participatory activities will be developed to strengthen the co-research component proposed in this dissertation. These may include focus groups, capacity-building workshops, and forest transect walks in each territory to establish meaningful relationships between communities and biodiversity.
Conflict between human beings is inevitable, but it is also what has systematically prevented us from advancing as a species in solving urgent problems to which we have not given sufficient attention. Climate change, environmental degradation, mass species extinction, poverty, and corruption are all symptoms of a lack of empathy. Therefore, contributing meaningful evidence on human cooperation is always relevant in science. Studying in depth successful experiences in conflict resolution in territories where land use is the main source of tension is both innovative and essential.
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DOI : DOI: 10.1017/qpb.2025.9