ABSTRACT
The Peace Prize awarded to Wangari Maathai in 2004 for her grassroots Green Belt Movement marked an awakening to the potency of community environmental projects in contributing to reconciliation and sustainable coexistence between humans and nature. In this chapter I explore the idea of grassroots involvement in linear landscapes in liminal conditions – that is, in border zones of conflict – and, more specifically, in the interstitial spaces that are confined in military buffer zones and extracted from the pressures of development. The premise is that a Right to Landscape can be asserted within, and inserted into and along, these landscape lines, which are envisaged as future backbones for reconciliation and healing.
