Sensitive issues in natural resource management and discursive strategies addressing them

摘要: In natural resource management facilitation literature, little attention is paid to sensitive issues in multi-stakeholder interaction and learning. This article aims fill this gap. It discusses the variety of discursive strategies used by stakeholders address with regard fishery Benin, three different settings: individual interviews, homogeneous groups' discussions, a heterogeneous group meeting. Issues that proved were discussed openly interviews or but not at all, only indirectly, With indirect strategies, two out seven put on discussions' agenda. We conclude other too among others because historically grown interdependency between interventionists fishers. suggest dealing an important dimension interactive learning processes provide methodological guidelines detect such issues.