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.
