CONTENT: Foreword vii Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Abbreviations xvii Introduction xix Conflicts Over Natural Resources: A diversity of contexts and causes, stakeholders and strategies by - Astad Pasta PART 1 - REVIEW PAPERS Figuring Out Conflicts: Menu of tools and frameworks for conflict analysis by - Astad Pastakia 1 Making the Invisible Visible: Review of latent conflicts in the context of CBNRM by - Madhu Sarin and Rukmini Rao 23 With a Pebble of Jaggery: Review of traditional conflict resolution mechanisms and institutions in Gujarat and Rajasthan by - Astad Pastakia 53 Understanding the Legal Arena of Conflicts Over Natural Resources by -Sanjay Upadhyay and Videh Upadhyay 75 PART II - CASE STUDIES Conflicts over land Case 1103 Panchayat Versus User Group: The case of grassland development at Gudagokulpura, Rajasthan by - Mohan S Nadoda and M H Vader 103 Case 2 117 For a Few Vighas of Land: Struggle for socio-economic emancipation by the dalits of Sunderpura, Gujarat by - Anita Dixit and Jyotsna Macwan Case 3 133 Dismantled Enclosures: A case of local conflicts triggered by an external intervention in Kailadevi Wild-life Sanctuary, Rajasthan by - Arun Jindaland Devendra Singh Case 4141 Power of the Marginalised: Community action by a tribal community to uproot encroachment from common grazing land at Viyal Village, Rajasthan by - Pemaram Patel and Prakash Kashwan Case 5 153 Empowering People for Grassland Development: The case of Patel Phalia, Kolyabeda, Madhya Pradesh by - Vijay Soni, Thansingh Dawar, Bahadur Baria, Dhansingh Chouhan, & Prasmudit Dungdung Case 6165 Of the Village but Not for the Village: A conflict related to user-rights of Vidi in Hirawa, Gujarat by - Porag Shome and Girish Prajapati Conflicts over water Case 7 175 The Battle for Water: A conflict between vested interests and women at Vouva, Gujarat by - Bharti Bhavsar and Femida Baloch Case8187 Upstream Versus Downstream: An inter-village conflict over access to surface water in Surendranagar district, Gujarat by - Ghanshyamsinh Jethwa Case 9201 Strategic Encroachment by Water-merchants: Conflict over formation of primary irrigation cooperative at Thalota, Gujarat - Kuldeep Sugar, Rajendra Patel Case 10 217 Change of Guard: Manifestation of a gender-based latent conflict at Ubhariya, Gujarat by - Dharmendra Chandurkar Conflicts Over Forests Case 11 231 One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Consequences of internal strife in a model JFM village in Bharuch district, Gujarat - Sachin Chaudhari Case l2245 Neighbours Who Refused to Be Excluded!: An inter-village conflict arising from exclusion of traditional users of forests from JFM in Udaipur district, Rajasthan by -Prakash Kashwan and Pemaram Patel Case 13263 The Right to Confiscated Goods: A conflict triggered by lack of procedural consensus in JFM at Chodvani, Gujarat by - Ratan Rathwa Case 14 269 Superior to Supreme: How tribal people rejected a supreme court order and saved their Mahuda forests at Chotaudepur, Gujarat - Ratan Rathwa Case 15277 Poles Apart?: Conflict over benefit-sharing between people and the forest department in JFM at Abhapur, Gujarat - Srinivas Mudrakartha, Vijay Kaushal & Sujit G Kumar PART HI - FINDINGS AND INFERENCES Chapter 1 ____________________297 Towards an Alternative Theory of Conflict Management - Astad Pastakia 2 311 Managerial and Policy Implications - Astad Pastakia Glossary of vernacular terms 325 List of scientific names 327 About the authors 328