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Title:Policy-driven inter-ethnic conflicts in Southern Ethiopia
Authors:Tache, Boku
Oba, GufuISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:36
Issue:121
Pages:409-426
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:land conflicts
land rights
ethnic conflicts
government policy
pastoralists
Boran
Somali
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240903211125
Abstract:Persistent interethnic conflicts in southern Ethiopia have created a crisis in security of customary land tenure in the grazing lands. This article explores the links between government administrative policies and interethnic conflicts on grazing resource borders by discussing the historical relationships between contesting pastoral groups, their perceptions of resource borders and how the groups used government policies of ethnic-based decentralization and referendum to claim ownership rights to grazing lands. The article contextualizes the discussions within the politics of land use. Interethnic conflicts have interfered with customary resource allocations by undermining customary institutions for resource sharing. There is a need for urgent dialogue between the government and different pastoral communities for negotiating access to key resources supported by conflict resolution in the southern rangelands of Ethiopia. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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