Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (80 Seiten)
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Edition:
Culture and Environment in Africa Series 2.pdf
Series Statement:
Culture and Environment in Africa Series Issue 2
Keywords:
Kenia Massai
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Kikuyu
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Beziehungen, interethnische
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Gewalt
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Grenzstreit
Abstract:
The Maasai/Kikuyu agro-pastoral borderlands of Maiella and Enoosupukia, located in the hinterlands of Lake Naivasha`s agro-industrial hub, are particularly notorious in the history of ethnicised violence in the Kenya`s Rift Valley. In October 1993, an organised assault perpetrated by hundreds of Maasai vigilantes, with the assistance of game wardens and administration police, killed more than 20 farmers of Kikuyu descent. Consequently, thousands of migrant farmers were violently evicted from Enoosupukia at the instigation of leading local politicians. Nowadays, however, intercommunity relations are surprisingly peaceful and the cooperative use of natural resources is the rule rather than the exception. There seems to be a form of reorganization. Violence seems to be contained and the local economy has since recovered. This does not mean that there is no conflict, but people seem to have the facility to solve them peacefully. How did formerly violent conflicts develop into peaceful relations? How did competition turn into cooperation, facilitating changing land use? This dissertation explores the value of cross-cutting ties and local institutions in peaceful relationships and the non-violent resolution of conflicts across previously violently contested community boundaries. It mainly relies on ethnographic data collected between 2014 and 2015. [...] (Verlagsangaben)
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 70-80
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Masterarbeit, Köln, Universität zu Köln, 2012
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