Description: Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of SudanAuthor(s): Guma Kunda Komey Format: Hardback Publisher: James Currey, United Kingdom Imprint: James Currey ISBN-13: 9781847010261, 978-1847010261 Synopsis The conflict in the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan illustrates how state policies concerning the control of land can cause local conflicts to escalate into large scale wars, which become increasingly difficult to manage or resolve. The conventional perspective on Sudan's recent civil war [tel] - one of the longest and most complex conflicts in Africa - emphasises ethnicity as the main cause. This study, on the contrary, identifies the land factor as aroot cause that is central to understanding Sudan's local conflicts and large-scale wars. Land rights are about relationships between and among persons, pertaining to different economic and ritual activities. Rights toland are intimately tied to membership in specific communities, from the family to the nation-state. Control over land in Africa has been, and still is, used as a means of defining identity and belonging, an instrument to control, and a source of, political power. Membership of these communities is contested, negotiable, and changeable over time. For national governments land is a national economic resource for public and private development, but the interests and rights of rural majorities and their sedentary or nomadic subsistence forms of life are often difficult to harmonise with land policies pursued by national governments. The state's exclusionary land policies and politicsof limiting or denying communities their land rights play a crucial role in causing local conflicts that then can escalate into large-scale wars. Land issues increase the complexity of a conflict, thereby reducing the possibilityof managing, resolving, or ultimately transforming it. The conflict in the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan, the regional focus in this study, is living proof of this transformation. Guma Kunda Komey is Assistant Professor of Human Geography, Juba University, Sudan.
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Book Title: Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Width: 138 mm
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Author: Guma Kunda Komey
Publication Name: Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: James Currey
Subject: Government, Finance, Politics
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
