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The Prospect for Creative Collaboration: A Peace Park Between Myanmar and Thailand

Latessa, Jennifer
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397734705

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2014, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Community Planning.
This study evaluates the potential for a peace park in the mountain range that delineates the border between Myanmar and Thailand, or the Tanintharyi Mountain Range. The Tanintharyi Mountain Range is delicate, socioeconomically, environmentally, and politically, with a long history of conflict. With Myanmar re-opening its border, an international network has begun discussing the possibility of designating the land for shared conservation. The work being done by this network includes scientific research and a stakeholder analysis. These findings help contextualize the diagnostic results and support the overall goal of this study: to assess the challenges and solutions for the prospective peace park. Translated versions of the Diagnostic Tool for Trans-boundary Conservation Planners, a questionnaire developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), were created to collect results from stakeholders in the area who have the power to stop or start the initiative. These findings conveyed indicators of need, readiness, opportunities and threats for a shared conservation zone along the border. The logic and structure of this argument weaves through different disciplines and a large range of geographic and cultural contexts to address the varied nature of environmental conflict resolution. Although it may be challenging to form and maintain peace parks, peace parks have the ability to open up dialogue and mitigate issues, as well as enhance protection and maintenance for long term benefits through ecotourism, economic development and goodwill between neighboring boundaries and peoples. Peace parks offer many benefits to communities and support a way to build amity amongst border communities and their nations. Such an option should be considered by local and global leaders. This first chapter introduces the research question and provides context for a peace park in the Tanintharyi Mountain Range today. Next, the literature review further explains peace parks and their history, both generally and in the region of study. Conflict resolution theories and environmental dispute practices are also incorporated in the second chapter. The diagnostic tool and methods are explored in chapter three and lead to the results and analysis in chapter four. Chapter five suggests recommendations for the site and its stakeholders and concludes with a broad overview on peace park formation in the region.
David Edelman, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Jan Fritz, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
147 p.
Environmental Studies
Environmental Conflict Resolution; Peace Parks; Southeast Asia; Planning

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  • Latessa, J. (2014). The Prospect for Creative Collaboration: A Peace Park Between Myanmar and Thailand [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397734705

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Latessa, Jennifer. The Prospect for Creative Collaboration: A Peace Park Between Myanmar and Thailand. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397734705.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Latessa, Jennifer. "The Prospect for Creative Collaboration: A Peace Park Between Myanmar and Thailand." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397734705

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