Pastoralism & Peacebuilding (page 8)
Building resilience and protecting livelihoods in conflict areas
Resilience is the ability of people to mitigate, withstand and bounce back from shocks and stresses. Much research on resilience has focused on climatic, environmental and economic risk. However, different kinds of analysis are needed to understand the resilience of people living in situations of violent conflict. For the past 15 years, the Feinstein International […]
Innovative ways to reduce farmer-herder conflicts
Procasur Corporation*, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), ILC (International Land Coalition), ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), the Land Portal Foundation and RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) co-organised a week-long Learning Route (LR) in September 2017 about reducing conflicts between crop farmers and livestock keepers. The Value Chain Development Project (VCDP) in Nigeria had requested to […]
Pastoralist education & peacebuilding in Ethiopia
The UNICEF study “Pastoralist education and peacebuilding in Ethiopia: results and lessons learned” (2015, 35pp), by Elizabeth King and Chrissie Monaghan of New York University, aims to strengthen peacebuilding through initiatives designed to increase access to good-quality education for remote and marginalised communities, particularly mobile peoples. The study focused on the Afar, Benishangul Gumuz, Gambella […]
Community animal health services build peace in the Sudans
In the Abyei Administrative Area (AAA) on the border between South Sudan and Sudan, Dinka Ngok and Missiriya pastoralists used to share pasture and water, with access being regulated by customary law. However, in recent years leading up to and after the independence of South Sudan, the AAA has been marked by frequent outbreaks of […]
CELEP holds EC lunchtime conference on pastoralism & conflict
“Pastoralism and conflict resolution in Eastern Africa” was the focus of a lunchtime conference organised by CELEP and VSF Belgium on 9 November 2017 at the External Cooperation InfoPoint of the European Commission (EC). The aim was to give deeper insight into the underlying causes of conflict in pastoralist areas in Kenya, South Sudan and […]