Pastoralism & Peacebuilding (page 10)
Adapting traditional land governance in Somalia
Pastoral rangelands are vital to Somalia’s livestock-dominated economy. Traditional common-property regimes are under pressure from rangeland enclosures, population growth and charcoal production. Also under these challenging situations, hybrids of customary and “modern” law enable pastoralist communities to assert their rights. Hybrid institutions that formalise roles for traditional leaders have allowed the development of strong Somali-owned […]
Education and resilience in Kenya’s arid lands
The UNICEF “Study of education and resilience in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands” (2015, 86pp) uses a resilience framework to ask how various education systems in the arid lands are helping or hindering young people and their societies to absorb shocks, adapt to and minimise stresses, and transform in positive ways when confronted with internal […]
Resource governance in Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas
The article “Austere conservation: understanding conflicts over resource governance in Tanzanian wildlife management areas” by Jevgeniy Bluwstein et al (published 2016 in Conservation and Society 14(3): 218–231) explores how the regime of rules over access to land, natural and financial resources reflects the degree of community ownership of a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania. […]
Impact of armed conflict on pastoral economy in Kenya
The article ‘Gaafa dhaabaa – the period of stop’: narrating impacts of shifta insurgency on pastoral economy in northern Kenya, c. 1963 to 2007 by Zeinabu Kabale Khalif and Gufu Oba (published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2013 3:14) looks at the long-term impacts of the 1960–68 insurgency wars and subsequent banditry on the pastoral economy in […]
Changing conflict dynamics in Karamoja, Uganda
The report “We now have relative peace”: changing conflict dynamics in northern Karamoja, Uganda by Kimberly Howe et al with Mercy Corps (2015, 25pp) is based on research by the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and Mercy Corps in northern Karamoja, Uganda. Most pastoralists in this area have settled and become agropastoralists. The study […]