Put simply, wildlife management and its profits would be shared with local people. Once conservation was for the people and by the people, poaching was significantly reduced. Another approach is to decentralise environments and environmental competencies through some kind of autonomous or federal arrangement. This is being attempted in Ethiopia where ethnic provinces have been devised after thirty years of armed struggle between major cultural groups. Previously, under various regimes of the more dominant Amhara people, all five methods for imposing development policy had been tried and failed.
Today there are nine federal states, each based on cultural affiliations.
Each has significant local powers including the right to secede. Lastly one can consider the new discourse of cultural rights. The United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations recently completed ten years of compiling testimony on cultural ethnocide and genocide to draft forty-five articles that the General Assembly must consider for adoption. This principle is being effected world-wide as indigenous cultures are reclaiming lands on every continent. Conclusion Comparing the two types of strategies, one based on imposing an order and the other on participatory social constructions, one can see that the latter is more productive both in resolving conflict and in achieving a sustainable relationship between societies and the environment.