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Title: | A Participatory Approach for Local Level Peace Initiatives: The Lodwar Border Harmonization Meeting |
Author: | Frank, Emily |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | Winter |
Pages: | 69-87 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Ethiopia Uganda Kenya |
Subjects: | aid agencies ethnic relations conflict resolution pastoralists Politics and Government |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v049/49.4frank.pdf |
Abstract: | In December 1999, the Border Harmonization Meeting, held in Lodwar, Kenya, brought together local community elders, government officials, and members of the international donor community to discuss local strategies for resolving widespread pastoralist conflict in the Karamojong Cluster. The Karamojong Cluster is an ethnogeographic designation that includes the Karamojong, Dodosa Nyakwai, Toposa, Nyangatom, Teso, Turkana and Jie, closely related ethnic groups that inhabit the semiarid area of northeast Uganda, southeast Sudan, northwest Kenya and southwest Ethiopia. The meeting was a good example of how participatory strategies, used widely in development programmes, provide a valuable framework for local peace initiatives. It also illustrated the multiple levels on which peace processes operate and in which issues are discussed and resolved. The paper provides some background on the current destabilization in the Karamojong Cluster, explores the development of the peace process, and discusses how success was achieved, or not, on a variety of levels. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |