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Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace and Co-operation Box 2.5 Extract from IUCN/WWF Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous/Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas Principle 5: The rights of indigenous and other traditional peoples in connection with protected areas are often an international responsibility, since many of the lands, territories, waters, coastal seas and other resources which they own or otherwise occupy or use cross-national boundaries, as indeed do many of the ecosystems in need of protection. 5.1 Where indigenous and other traditional peoples’ lands, territories, waters, coastal seas, and other resources are located within trans-frontier protected areas, governments should adopt instruments to guarantee that protected area management respects and supports the integrity of the respective indigenous and local communities; 5.2 In order to guarantee both conservation objectives and indigenous and other traditional peoples’ rights in areas which have been subject to armed conflict or dispute, governments (singly or in partnership with their neighbours in the region), and other relevant institutions, should develop agreements and measures to ensure that indigenous and other traditional peoples’ terrestrial, coastal/marine and freshwater domains within protected areas are treated as zones of peace and reconciliation. (Source: Beltrán, 2000). 16
3. Good practice guidelines The IUCN/Cardiff series of Protected Area Management Guidelines is designed to help protected area managers, but also government officials, policy-makers, NGOs, community leaders, donors etc. Like all the guidelines in the series, these guidelines on TBPAs are not rules, but advice. In this particular case, the guidance has been drafted for use in times of peace between the countries involved, when real co-operation is most easily achieved. However, much of it should be applicable and realisable during times of dispute, or even armed conflict. These guidelines should also be useful for encouraging a return to normalcy after periods of armed conflict. They complement the Draft Code for Transboundary Protected Areas in Times of Peace and Armed Conflict (Chapter 4). As with all the IUCN/Cardiff guidelines, the advice here needs to be adapted to local conditions. They may need to be modified to achieve locally defined objectives, since they cannot cover all possible situations. Thus the primary objective is to encourage reflection and help identify what actions are best suited to the particular situation. In the light of experience, it is intended to revise and update this guidance from time to time. IUCN would therefore welcome feedback from users. The guidance is set out under nine headings: 1. Identifying and promoting common values 2. Involving and benefiting local people 3. Obtaining and maintaining support of decision-makers 4. Promoting coordinated and co-operative activities 5. Achieving coordinated planning and protected area development 6. Developing co-operative agreements 7. Working towards funding sustainability 8. Monitoring and assessing progress 9. Dealing with tension or armed conflict 3.1 Identifying and promoting common values All TBPAs share some common natural resource, ecosystem service, landscape feature or species, or some common cultural value. This may be a shared water body, a mountain, a desert, a rare mammal or an indigenous community. Quite apart from any peace objective, the existence of such a shared resource is a sound reason for cooperation in management. The following guidelines will help in the identification and development of common values: 17
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