Pastoralism & Peacebuilding (page 6)
Local support systems in South Sudan
The Mercy Corps report “The currency of connections: why local support systems are integral to helping people recover in South Sudan” (2019, 41 pp) by Alex Humphrey et al provides insights into local social protection and support systems and how humanitarian aid can complement or disrupt these systems. In protracted crises in which formal governance […]
Peacebuilding in Kenya-Somalia borderlands
In the article “The changing nature of local peacebuilding in Kenya’s north-eastern borderlands” (2018), published in Accord Insight 4: 26–33, Aden Abdi and Jeremy Lind examine the northeastern Kenyan borderlands with Somalia, tracing the evolution of conflict and peacebuilding from the post-independence period to today. Through a historical analysis of relations between the margins and the centre, they […]
Pastoral project & territorial conflict in southern Kenya
Interventions in the name of development often simplify complex social realities, lose sight of the relational dynamics beyond the “target group” and thus may contribute to conflict. The article “Territorial conflicts, agency and the strategic appropriation of interventions in Kenya’s southern drylands” by Angela Kronenburg Garcia (published in Sustainability 2018, 10(11), 4156) examines how a […]
NRM by pastoralists in northern Kenya
The Web article “Shalom empowers Turkana and Pokot communities on management and resolution of natural resource-based conflicts” introduces the Natural Resource Management (NRM) Project being implemented in Turkana and West Pokot Counties in northern Kenya, an area long marked by inter-ethnic conflict caused mainly by competition over access to and control of water, pasture and land. With the […]
Policy framework for informal cross-border trade
IGAD (Inter-Governmental Authority on Development) Member States have produced a draft “Policy framework on the nexus between informal cross-border trade & cross-border security governance” (2018, 40pp) for enhancing cross-border cooperation and economic exchanges in the IGAD region. Exchanges and interactions between pastoralist, agropastoralist and crop-farming communities in dryland parts of the IGAD region play a […]