‘The Oxford Amnesty Lectures is a registered charity. Its purpose is to raise fiands to increase awareness of Amnesty Intemational in the academic and wider communities. It is otherwise independent of Amnesty International. It began as a fund-raising project for the local Amnesty group in Oxford, and is now one of the world’s leading name-lecture series. To date, Oxford Amnesty Lectures has raised around £100,000 for Amnesty International Land Rights The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2005 Edited by Timothy Chesters OXFORDOXFORD (Great Chrendon Street, Oxord ox: Go ‘Oxford University Presi department of dhe Universi of Oxo eres the Univers abecaive of excellence in research, schol, a edocaon by publishing worldwide a ‘Osford Neve York Auckland Cape Tove Dare Salaim Hong Kong. Karichi XKeals Lanper Madrid Melbourne Messco City Nao ‘New Delhi Shangha Tape Toronto With ofcesin Argentina Avera Brail Chile Casch Republic Fince Gresce Guntemals Hungary Tay Jopan Poland Porc Sangepore South Kores Sustcrand Thaland Turkey Ukrine Vietnam ‘Orford sa epstered trade matk of Oxord Univesity Pres in the UK and in certain other counties Pblshed nthe United States by Oxford Univesity Pres nc, New York © Oxford AmestyLecures 2009 ‘The mora righ of the stor have heen sere Dasha right Oxford Univesiy Pre ae) Fist pulse 2009 All sighs reserved, No ptt ofthis publcason may be reproduced stored in retrieval steno ranted many fm by any mean, ‘without the por permison in wnting of Oxford University Pres, ‘or asexpresty pete by law o under tems agreed wich the appropiate ‘epognphis rights orgnization. Eng conetming reproduction curl the scope ofthe above thonld be sent to the ighs Deparment, ‘Onford Univenity Pre, at the adres adore ‘You must nt circulate ths book in anyother binding o cover ‘nc you mus impose the same codon on any aequiree ‘Bath Libery Cataloguing in Pblietion Data Dats avalible Library of Congres Cataloging in Publication Das, Data avaible ‘Typaet by SPI Publisher Services, Pondichery, Inds Printed in Gree Brin ‘on acide paper by (Chys Lad, Sees ple ISBN 978-o-15 9545102 Preface The 13th Oxford Amnesty Lectures, on the subject of ‘Land Rights’, were given in January, February, and March 2005, ‘Seven speakers addressed the series: Marilyn Strathern, Misha Glenny, Romeo Saganash, Frank Brennan, Ken Wiwa, Richard Leakey, and Daniel Baron-Cohen. I would like on behalfof Oxford Amnesty Lectures to express my thanks to all of them, Not all the lectures are reproduced in this book. Misha Glenny’s contribution is under copyright; Daniel Baron-Cohen’s was heavily image-based and so, while ex- tremely well-received as an occasion, deemed unsuitable for publication here. That leaves five lectures, with an additional ‘guest contribution fom William Beinart. To him too go my thanks. In the spirit of dialogue and debate traditionally championed by Oxford Amnesty Lectures, this book also includes five responses to each of our speakers. The respond~ ents were: Laura Rival, Ellen L. Lutz, Marcus Colchester, ‘Adam Higazi, and Lotte Hughes. | am grateful to all of them for their thought-provoking and, on occasion, provocative companion pieces. Final thanks go to the other members of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures committee, whose hard work made the lectures, and so this book, possible. They are Melissa McCarthy, Chris Miller, Nicholas Owen, Fabienne Pagnier, Deana Rankin, Richard Scholar, Stephen Shute, Kate Tun- stall, Katrin Wehling, and Wes Williams. T.GC.