A Comparative Study of Herder-Farmer Conflicts in West Africa
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2009
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Abstract
In Toda, Niger, in 1991, a mob of angry farmers attacked herders in
several villages, killing over 100 people. Eleven years later on the Jos
Plateau in Nigeria, tension between Muslim herders and Christian
farmers resulted in the destruction of several villages, the deaths of
hundreds of people, and the creation of 20,000 refugees. And on the
border between Senegal and Mauritania, conflict between farmers and
herders in 1989 brought the two countries to the brink of war. Mark Moritz wanted to understand why some conflicts between herders
and farmers in Africa escalate into widespread violence between
communities while most do not. To do this, he is analyzing 29 case
studies of herder-farmer conflict under different conditions with
different outcomes.
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Research project funded in academic year 2008-09
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Keywords
herder-farmer conflict