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标题：Pastoral Land Rights and Protracted Conflict in Eastern Sudan
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作者：Yasin Abdalla Eltayeb El Hadary ; Narimah Samat
期刊名称：生活経済学研究
印刷版ISSN：1341-7347
电子版ISSN：2424-1288
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：8
出版社：生活経済学会
摘要：Land in pastoral communities is considered a highly valuable entity, as it is not just a means of livelihood, but also a source of wealth, identity, social peace and a source of conflict. This implies that lack of access to land does not only deprive rural people from the major source of their livelihood, but it also threatens their existence as human beings. Historical evidence shows that pastoral communities adapted themselves to the harsh nature and created symbiotic harmony with both the social and ecological milieus. Recently, most pastoral areas especially in Africa have witnessed severe conflicts and bloodshed. This is attributed to several factors such as high population growth rates, repeated droughts, ecological stresses and climatic changes. Although not denying its role, this article questions the validity of such claims. Under the pretext of ¡°development¡±, pastoral lands have been taken and vested to outside investors, without taking into account the historical right of local communities and their livelihood interests. Unequal access to land remains one of the fundamental causes that contributed to the grievance and protracted conflict in the area. This article focuses on the insecurity of land rights and its association with pastoral conflict in the Gedarif state in eastern Sudan. The study also aims to go beyond degradation to investigate the role of the state in creating land resource scarcity and thus fuelling conflict. For years, much has been written on the conflict in Darfur and its relation to ecological degradation. Hence, filling the existing lack of literature on the east, although facing the same situations, and conceptualizing the problem in the perspective of political economy, is one of the main contributions of this article.
关键词：political economy, conflict, communal right, pastoral livelihood, mechanized farming, and Sudan.