Conference Session IV:
Saturday, 27 September
1:00-5:00 p.m.
School of Management
Room A74

Analysis of Trinational conservation and development potential:
Because of the political complexities of working with three central African nations and three principal western nations providing conservation aid, this conference offers valuable opportunities for discussion of possibilities for future collaboration. Participant presentations will review ecological, historical, and anthropological arguments for (or against) the region as distinct from areas around it, and will address the particular administrative and organizational challenges which the area presents. Particular attention will be paid to naturally occurring transnational phenomena such as migration of human and animal populations, and the emergence at different times during the past century of distinct north/south or east/west commercial axes for exploitation of forest products across the trinational borders.
After presentation, a focused round table discussion will occur among all participants and invitees. Several scholars from Yale will also be present as guests at this final workshop, suggesting analytical tools and comparative perspectives for the session's central questions:

Based on the sessions presented thus far about history, knowledge forms, and conservation approaches, what are the gaps in knowledge bases, international institutions, and national capacities? How can future transnational resource use relations be more effectively mediated and maintained as productive systems?

Invited Yale scholars to suggest analytical tools and comparative perspectives.
Invited Yale Participants:
David APTER: Dept. Sociology; African development and political process
Mark ASHTON: (FES) Tropical sylviculture and management
Daniel ESTY: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Luis GOMEZ-ECHEVERRI: (FES) UNDP Public-Private Partnerships Program
Takeshi INOMATA: Anthropology; Archaeology of Guatemalan forest sites
Owen LYNCH: International law and property relations
Sharon OSTER: (SOM) Management analyses of NGOs
Patricia PESSAR: Program on Global Migration and Transnationalism
James SCOTT: Program in Agrarian Studies; Rural social change and resistance
Andrew WILLARD: Yale Law School, Policy Sciences Center
Leonard WANTCHEKON: Political Science; Economics and African policy evolution
Enrique MAYER: Anthropology; Anthropology of development in Latin America

Invited Presenters:
J. Michael FAY (WCS, Congo)
Steve GARTLAN (WWF, Cameroon)
Hans HOFFMANN (GTZ, Congo)

Moderators:
Heather EVES, Rebecca HARDIN, Stephanie RUPP