Rethinking Human-Wildlife Conflict in Multi-species Society
The notion of Human-Wildlife Conflict has been undergoing a re-evaluation. The traditional focus has been on disagreements between groups of humans that arise from actual or perceived threats from wildlife. Newer models emphasize coexistence between humans and other animals and include attention to animal agency and a reasonable freedom of choice. However, there has not yet been a proposal about how to include other species as negotiation partners in managing conflicts. The author proposes a norm change approach to addressing perceived and actual conflicts between humans and other animals who share multi-species society and illustrate with a case of negotiated elephant-human interaction in Valparai, India.
Presenters
Kristin Andrews is a philosopher and author of books that explore animal minds, sociality, and culture. Kristin is Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at York University in Toronto (on leave), and a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow on the Future Flourishing project. She has been active in animal policy and conservation contexts, including co-launching the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness and promoting orangutan research and conservation in Indonesian Borneo.
