Promoting Peace and Managing Farmer-Herder Conflict

The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Agogo, Ghana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2098567
AutoresMary Boatemaa Setrana (0000-0002-5686-2721, University of Ghana, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen65
Número2
Páginas430-454
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2021.92
OpenAlexW4284881385
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas21

Continued clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers generate concerns about the capacity of community-based civil society organizations to effectively navigate conflict resolution in Agogo Traditional Area (ATA), Ghana. The Agogo and Fulani associations ostensibly manage farmer-herder conflict but with mixed results. Setrana argues that, unlike foreign or international civil society organizations, community-based associations play important roles in managing conflict because they often have better cultural understanding. The success of such organizations, however, depends on whether they are perceived as indigenous or non-indigenous. This binary framework often leads to a winner-takes-all attitude and rarely results in sustainable conflict resolution

Civil Conflict · Civil society · Conflict management · Conflict resolution · Geography · Indigenous · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology