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- Convenor:
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Olivier Hymas
(University of Lausanne - UNIL)
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- Format:
- Roundtable
- Sessions:
- Monday 25 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
Conservation projects are bringing together conservationists, social scientists and businesses in cross-disciplinary conservation projects that often involve Indigenous Peoples. The panel, with representatives from these disciplines, uses the Trolley dilemma to discuss their governance spaces.
Long Abstract:
Conservation projects are bringing together conservationists, social scientists and businesses in cross-disciplinary conservation projects involving Indigenous Peoples. This has meant collaborations between actors having different values, rules and knowledge1 in governance spaces2 that may not overlap. Disparities that are rarely defined when undertaking cross-disciplinary projects, with the possibility that project decisions making come from different starting positions with different objectives.
Understanding these governance spaces becomes critical for successful cross-disciplinary conservation projects involving Indigenous People. By using the Trolley dilemma3, representatives from these disciplines, explore the fundamentals of these different spaces, including ideologies, objectives and limitations.
Trolley dilemma asks a person to choose between which of two tracks they will send a runaway Trolley. Each track blocked by people representing opposing ethical position; only one group can survive. In the context of conservation projects involving Indigenous Peoples, the unconscious ethical dilemma by conservationists, social scientists and businesses, based on each of their governance spaces, results in different ethical outcomes for the Trolley. Each will unconsciously prioritise their main interest, at the expense of others.
This panel, with stories of success, explores how we can better understand each other's governance spaces with their ideologies, values, knowledge, rules, objectives and limitations. Could a thought experiment involving all the actors at the start of cross-disciplinary project development improves the understanding of each other's unconscious decision and so increase project success?
1-Gorddard, R., et al (2016) Values, rules and knowledge
2-Clarke, W. (2017) Institutional density reconsidered
3-Edmonds, D. (2014) Would you kill the fat man
Accepted participant details:
Session 1 Monday 25 October, 2021, -Stephen Edwards (IUCN Global Business and Biodiversity Program)
Short bio:
The Senior Program Manager of the IUCN Global Business and Biodiversity Program. Coordinator of IUCN restoration advisory panel following the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Brazil.
Sugoto Roy (IUCN)
Short bio:
Sugoto ROY - studied ecology and wildlife management at Imperial College. His PhD, from Bristol University, looked at the impacts and management of the invasive small Indian mongose. Since 1995 he has worked in government departments, NGOs and IGOs and universities for significant periods of time, mainly working in wildlife management and research, specialising in the ecology and management of carnivores, invasive species and human wildlife conflicts. He has worked on projects in the UK, The UK overseas territories, Japan and the Indian Ocean.
Additional details:
Sugoto current works at IUCN to manage a tiger conservation programme aimed at conserving significant tiger populations. The portfolio currently has 12 projects across 6 countries and operates at the interface between species conservation, habitat restoration and working with local communities.
Liza Zogib (DiversEarth)
Short bio:
Liza ZOGIB - is founder and co-creator of DiversEarth, an NGO working at the special interface of nature, culture and spirituality. As well as working to support indigenous, spiritual and rural communities and their cultural practices that protect and care for nature, DiversEarth also focuses on the protection, management and restoration of sacred natural sites and facilitating interreligious dialogue.
Additional details:
Liza has extensive experience with social, cultural and human rights issues in conservation. She is Chair of the IUCN Specialist Group on Religions, Spirituality, Environmental Conservation and Climate Justice
(ReSpECC) and member of the Religions and Conservation Biology working group of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Olivier Hymas (University of Lausanne - UNIL)
Short bio:
Olivier HYMAS - Conservation practitioner / researcher, trained in Biology and Anthropology. Specialising on long-term impacts of industries and conservation NGOs on rural communities and their environment, especially in Africa, which has meant that he works, and collaborates, across many disciples including history and economics and many sectors including businesses, governments, universities and local communites. His latest paper on pandemics and the creation of national parks worldwide brought together colonial histories, ecology, epidemiology and anthropology.
Additional details:
He has decades of experience in working and living with indigenous and local communities in tropical forest of Africa including spending years with the Babongo of Gabon. Currently, he lives on a common in France and is actively defending the French commons against a law that proposes to dismantle these ancient ways of sustainable land management by linking them to the 2030 Sustainable development targets especially their role as Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures as defined by the
2010 CBD Aichi principles.