The world today faces a wide range of critically important issues, whose resolution require international
collaboration of various stakeholders. Environmental conservation and conflict resolution
are such examples. Interestingly enough, these two issues have been until very recently conceptualized
as separate problems, and coordinated resolution came to be pursued only recently. This paper
attempts to connect these two critical agendas by using the case study of land issues in Rwanda in
Africa. Land issues were one of the most important background factors of the 1994 genocide in
Rwanda. Establishing appropriate land regulatory framework in post-genocide Rwanda is indispensable
for sustainable peace in this part of the world. Whereas the land registration piloted in four
areas in 2006 and 2007 presents some promises, this exercise also invites additional concerns,
which need to be carefully considered in the scaling up process.