Land Conflict – Resources and Conflict

A local to global framework on resource governance and conflict

Janpeter Schilling, Christina Saulich & Nina Engwicht Land Conflict, Resource certification, Resource governance, Scale December 28, 2018June 15, 2019 0 Comment

by Janpeter Schilling¹, Christina Saulich² & Nina Engwicht³

How do global schemes of resource certification and global demand for valuable resources like diamonds and land influence local conflicts? How do local resource and conflict dynamics influence global processes related to resource demand and certification? To address these questions, we have edited a special issue in the journal Conflict, Security and Development that introduces a local to global framework to examine resource governance and conflicts across scales.

New Pieces to the Puzzle: The Food-Water-Energy-Mining Nexus in Environmental Conflicts

Sören Köpke Extractive Industries, Land Conflict, Methodology, Terms and concepts March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 0 Comment

by Sören Köpke, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology

The conflict dimensions of large-scale land acquisitions and water management issues have gained a lot of scholarly attention over the last decade. A small, but growing research community is investigating the social consequences of extractive industries. There is a need for integrative approaches bringing these topics together – inquiries into the food-water-energy-mining nexus. Read more

Framing identity in contestations over land in post-repatriation settings: The case of southern Burundi

Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo Burundi, Framing, Land Conflict, Migration, Post-Conflict June 5, 2017February 14, 2018 0 Comment

by Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo, Leiden University, the Netherlands

The shift from violence to peace in Burundi has been marked by heavy contestations over land as a result of mass displacement and repatriation (see Kamungi, Oketch & Huggins, 2005). To facilitate policy-making, these land disputes have been framed by different (inter-)national actors as opposing two major camps: repatriates vs occupants. In this dichotomist representation, repatriates refer mainly to former Hutu civilians who fled mass violence perpetrated by former Tutsi-dominated ruling regimes; while occupants involve civilians who took over refugees’ land in their prolonged absence. Yet, these land disputes are much more complex than that. Read more