Transformation of Resource Conflicts: Approach and Instruments
Approach and Instruments
Published on 20. December 2002
Book
Hardback
558 pages
978-3-906769-98-1 (ISBN)
Description
The collection of contributions to this volume addresses such burning issues as natural resource management, conflict transformation, and co-operation in sub-regions of the Horn of Africa. The individual pieces of action-oriented field research constitute the final report of the international research project on Environmental Conflict Management (ECOMAN). ECOMAN focuses on theory and practice of environmental conflict management in the Horn of Africa. On one hand it draws from the discussion launched in the mid-nineties about environmental security, and about political, legal, and institutional approaches to deal with highly complex and multi-party conflict. On the other hand it refers to traditional and/or local mechanisms of conflict regulations if and when resource use and distribution is involved. It adopts mainly a transformatory approach using process-oriented and interactive problem solving methods.
Reviews / Votes
«This book is highly relevant to the conflicts that continue to occur in the Horn and other parts of Africa.» (D.J. Shaw, Development Policy Review)«Policy analysts as well as social scientists with a regional interest in the Horn of Africa will find 'Transformation of Resource Conflicts' salient and thought-provoking.» (Jeremy Lind, Environmental Change and Security Project Report)
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Persons
The Editors: Günther Baechler, Ph.D. in political science, a former director of the Swiss Peace Foundation (Swisspeace), currently is head of the conflict prevention and transformation division of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC in Berne.
Kurt R. Spillmann, Ph.D. in history, is professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and head of the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research in Zürich.
Mohamed Suliman, Ph.D. in chemistry, is director of the London based Institute for African Alternatives IFAA.
Kurt R. Spillmann, Ph.D. in history, is professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and head of the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research in Zürich.
Mohamed Suliman, Ph.D. in chemistry, is director of the London based Institute for African Alternatives IFAA.
Content
Contents: Mohamed Suliman/Kurt R. Spillmann/Günther Baechler: Environment and Co-operation in the Horn of Africa - Eva Ludi: Household and Communal Strategies Dealing with Degradation of and Conflicts over Natural Resources. Case Studies from the Ethiopian Highlands - Iyob Tesfu: Management of Conflicts Arising from Contending Demands for Land, Water, Wood, and Related Natural Resources. Resettled Returnees vs. Resident Communities and Commercial Farms at Gahtelai - Mohamed Suliman: Resource Access, Identity, and Armed Conflict in the Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan - Medhane Tadesse: Traditional Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution versus State Intervention. The Borana Oromo and Merihan Somalis in Ethiopia - Iyob Tesfu: Urbanization, Resource Sharing, and Conflict Management in Eritrea. Socioeconomic and Ecological Impact of the Expansion of Asmara on the Satellite Villages - Lia Ghebreab: Conservation and Development Interactions. The Case of Semienawi Bahri - Seyoum Gebre Selassie/Tesfu Baraki: Determinants and Consequences of Environmental Conflict in North Shoa, Central Ethiopia - Atta El-Battahani: Tribal Peace Conferences in Sudan. The Role of the Joudiyya Institution in Darfur, Western Sudan - Yacob Arsano: Conflict Management over Water Rights in Ethiopia. The Case of the Woiyto Valley in Southern Ethiopia - Andemichael Misgina/Zerabruck Tesfamariam: Microdam Water Management and Common Use by Neighboring Villages in the Eritrean Highlands. A Case Study - Günther Baechler: Transformation of Resource Conflicts. Approach and Instruments.