Pastoralism & Peacebuilding (page 6)
Uganda–Kenya Cross-border agreement for the Karamoja cluster
In mid-September 2019, the Presidents of Uganda and Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a Kenya–Uganda (Turkana/West Pokot – Karamoja) cross-border programme for sustainable peace and socio-economic transformation for the Karamoja cluster. The draft MoU for the joint cross-border initiative can be found here and the joint workplan 2019–23 for the implementation […]
Challenges in studying pastoralist conflict in southern Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Government continuously calls for policy-relevant research, but the attempts to fill the evidence gap cannot ignore the political economy and power dynamics in the country. The article “Fundamental challenges in academic–government partnership in conflict research in the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia” (2019) by Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta et al., published in the IDS Bulletin […]
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 […]