Cultural conflicts and mediation : framework analyses of resource development and conservation on the Indigenous lands and waters, Commonwealth ofAustralia

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Corpus building approach has been adopted in this study in order to comprehend the currently ongoing process of conflicts, disputes, litigations, as well as varied cases of mediation/negotiation practices concerning the native title claims and related claims to management/access/consultation rights made by the indigenous groups in lands and waters in and around Australia. Descriptive and analytical writing on these topics have been extensively collected and analyzed.The data corpus maillly consists of 1)mass media reports and commentaries; 2) administrative releases, such as National Native Title Tribunal media releases and Government statements; 3)formal statements as well as less formal commentaries made by indigenous organizations and individuals ; and 4)expert commentaries from political, anthropological or legal points of view. To a lesser extent, court ruling texts have been referred to. Anthropological, sociological, political, historical and demographic articles have also been consulted although these are not incorporated into the database corpus. The corpus reflects specific cases and their background tendencies observed in the period from late 1996 to 2008.Obtained materials have been processed into a 28.2 megabyte FileMakerPro database, which contains 2,104 records bestowed with a number of keywords for searching and analyzing purposes.