Description: Further DetailsTitle: Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of SudanCondition: NewEAN: 9781847010261ISBN: 9781847010261Publisher: James CurreyFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/18/2010Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmAuthor: Guma Kunda KomeyLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1847010261Description: 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 (1983-2005) - 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Eastern Africa SeriesTopic: Business & FinanceItem Weight: 472gRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan
Title: Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan
EAN: 9781847010261
ISBN: 9781847010261
Release Date: 12/18/2010
Release Year: 2010
ISBN-10: 1847010261
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Book Title: Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: African, Africa / East
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Collections, History
Item Weight: 16.6 Oz
Author: GUMA Kunda Komey
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Book Series: Eastern Africa Ser.
Format: Hardcover
