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Policy-driven Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Southern Ethiopia

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  • Boku Tache
  • Gufu Oba

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Persistent inter-ethnic 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 inter-ethnic 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 decentralisation and referendum to claim ownership rights to grazing lands. The article contextualises the discussions within the politics of land use. Inter-ethnic 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.

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  • Boku Tache & Gufu Oba, 2009. "Policy-driven Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Southern Ethiopia," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(121), pages 409-426, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:36:y:2009:i:121:p:409-426
    DOI: 10.1080/03056240903211125
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    1. Jeylan Wolyie Hussein, 2016. "Examining the nature of defensively situated politics of difference, identity and essentialism in Ethiopia: A critical engagement," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 19(4), pages 340-354, December.
    2. Jeylan Wolyie Hussein & Fekadu Beyene, 2015. "Dynamics of institutionalized competition in the geography of inter-ethnic rivalry: The case of the Jarso and the Girhi in Eastern Ethiopia," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 18(2), pages 138-163, June.
    3. Jeylan Wolyie Hussein, 2015. "Analysis of dynamics of politicized collective identity in post-Dergue Ethiopia: A sociological and social-psychological analysis," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 18(4), pages 382-402, December.
    4. McPeak, John G. & Little, Peter D., 2018. "Mobile Peoples, Contested Borders: Land use Conflicts and Resolution Mechanisms among Borana and Guji Communities, Southern Ethiopia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 119-132.

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