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Library Landreform und Konflikt im Südsudan: Erkenntnisse aus Yei River County

Landreform und Konflikt im Südsudan: Erkenntnisse aus Yei River County

Landreform und Konflikt im Südsudan: Erkenntnisse aus Yei River County

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Date of publication
December 2017
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ISBN / Resource ID
NARCIS:wur:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/562466
Pages
26

Following South Sudanese independence in 2011, land reform became a major aspect of state building, partly to address historical injustices and partly to avoid future conflicts around land. In the process, land became a trigger for conflicts, sometimes between communities with no histories of “ethnic conflict.” Drawing on cases in two rural areas in Yei River County in South Sudan, this paper shows that contradictions in the existing legal frameworks on land are mainly to blame for those conflicts. These contradictions are influenced, in turn, by the largely top-down approach to state building, which has tended to neglect changes in society and regarding land resulting from colonialism and civil wars.

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Justin, Peter Hakim
Dijk, Van, Han

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