Environmental Conflict Management

This course explores the nature and impacts of conflicts related to environmental and resource management issues in Indigenous territories. It will focus on causes and solutions to the resource conflicts playing out across Turtle Island. It will use the Wet’suwet’en conflicts over the Coastal gas pipeline, old growth forests, fishing, or any number of land infringements as case studies. It will explore the legal, spiritual, historical, social, human rights, cultural, and political contexts of conflicts and ways in which such conflicts have been and can be resolved. It will explore the ways in which resource conflicts can be managed to promote reconciliation and environmental protection.