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1 Ekongoro owns the river. The challenge of legal pluralism Observations from an ongoing research project in Namibia (The Future Kavango Project - TFO) Prof. Dr. Manfred O. Hinz Research professor, University of Namibia, and professor, University of Bremen okavango@mweb.com.na

2 Structure of the presentation: 1 The Future of Kavango (TFO) project 2 Ekongoro owns the river 3 Customary law, the law of the state and the challenge of legal pluralism 4 The architecture of governance for sustainable development in a globalising world 5 Concluding remarks

3 Structure of the presentation: 1 The Future of Kavango (TFO) project 2 Ekongoro owns the river 3 Customary law, the law of the state and the challenge of legal pluralism 4 The architecture of governance for sustainable development in a globalising world 5 Concluding remarks

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6 Research on the (local, national and international) legal and political environment relevant to the Kavango basin and its maintenance My focus of today is on one aspect of the local legal and political environment.

7 Research is done within the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, University of Namibia Thanks are due to students of the Faculty of Law in Namibia, Clever Mapaure, PhD-candidate, Christian Thapa Mukuve, field assistant

8 Structure of the presentation: 1 The Future of Kavango (TFO) project 2 Ekongoro owns the river 3 Customary law, the law of the state and the challenge of legal pluralism 4 The architecture of governance for sustainable development in a globalising world 5 Concluding remarks

9 We asked: who owns the Kavango River, who owns the water?

10 The problem with ownership : - Ownership what is this? - What is owned: The holistic approach v dissecting nature

11 Options in the asking about the ownership of the river: God, Ekongoro, community, water point committees, government

12 What / who is Ekongoro????

13 Ekongoro is similar to a very big snake, it is very long, about 15 to 20 meters, it pushes and pulls water.... (Interviewee, Kavango Region))

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15 Ekongoro attacked me and my friends once. [In the river] our canoe was [stopped]... we realised that we were held by [Ekongoro]. We started talking to it as we were directed by our elders. (contd.)

16 ... Those who were with me fell out of the canoe and I was left alone my mind was off, I was walking around under water but managed to breath in the water. It took me almost six hours before Ekongoro eventually released me. I strongly believe that this [Ekongoro] is still around in the place where it attacked me and my friends. (Interviewee, Kavango Region)

17 But: Ekongoro is also said to be the guardian of the water, the protector against pollution.

18 So, what is Ekongoro in more theoretical terms? Ekongoro as it is reported to us is, like other subjectivizations of many nonhuman elements in our environment, the result of societal attempts to construct a language and, with this, a platform for interaction and negotiation. (Ref. is here to the British anthropologist Tim Ingold.)

19 Is this of relevance to legal and political anthropology? Can it have a legal / political consequence that Ekongoro owns the river? Is the concept of ownership by Ekongoro part of the customary law?

20 Structure of the presentation: 1 The Future of Kavango (TFO) project 2 Ekongoro owns the river 3 Customary law, the law of the state and the challenge of legal pluralism 4 The architecture of governance for sustainable development in a globalising world 5 Concluding remarks

21 (1) To abolish (strong modern monism); (2) To leave unregulated (unregulated dualism); (3) To regulate (regulated weak or strong - dualism); (4) To integrate into the modern structures (weak modern monism); (5) To make the traditional level the overarching level of governance (strong traditional monism).

22 Art 66 (1) of the Constitution of Namibia reads: Both the customary law and the common law of Namibia in force on the date of Independence shall remain valid to the extent to which such customary or common law does not conflict with this Constitution or any other statutory law.

23 This revolutionary wording in the independence constitution of Namibia means the acceptance of the living law of the people; it means the acceptance of legal pluralism! (Ref. is here to Eugen Ehrlich, who coined the term living law and to John Griffith who stated: Legal pluralism is the fact. Legal centralism is a myth, an ideal, a claim, an illusion.

24 However in concrete circumstances, the acceptance of legal pluralism is still far from implementation. Statutory water law is just ONE example!

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26 Ownership and management of water resources 4. Subject to this Act - (a) ownership of water resources in Namibia below and above the surface of the land belongs to the State;....

27 Consequences? The need for discourse, the need to change!

28 I repeat questions from above: Can it have a legal / political consequence that Ekongoro owns the river? Is the concept of ownership by Ekongoro part of the customary law? My answers: yes!

29 Structure of the presentation: 1 The Future of Kavango (TFO) project 2 Ekongoro owns the river 3 Customary law, the law of the state and the challenge of legal pluralism 4 The architecture of governance for sustainable development in a globalising world 5 Concluding remarks

30 Extension of what has been said into the conceptualisation of governance!

31 Political science speaks of the architecture of governance for sustainable development in a globalising world.

32 There is no commonly agreed definition of the term global governance architecture. We define the term... as the overarching system of public and private institutions that is, organizations, regimes and other forms of principles, norms, regulations and decision-making procedures that are valid or active in a given issue of world politics. Architecture can thus be described as the meta-level of governance. (Frank Biermann et al.)

33 This is a definition without the usual normative focus on public institutions such as the state and what, within it, is normally made the centre of attention the law of the state.

34 The definition of the architecture of governance, indeed, relates to the description and functionality of the major groups for action with respect to sustainable development as set out in Agenda 21 of 1992! Agenda 21, which is said by scholars of international law to be soft law.

35 Agenda 21: Women Children Indigenous peoples and their communities Non-governmental organisations Local authorities Workers and trade unions Business and industry The scientific and technological community Farmers

36 Consequences: Rethinking the inherited system of governance! Message for Africa AND elsewhere

37 Structure of the presentation: 1 The Future of Kavango (TFO) project 2 Ekongoro owns the river 3 Customary law, the law of the state and the challenge of legal pluralism 4 The architecture of governance for sustainable development in a globalising world 5 Concluding remarks

38 Strengthening the local manifestations of law and governance is difficult, but not impossible!

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40 Mpandu I thank you!

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