4 District Governments Nation-states are often created through wars and mergers whereas district or counties are generic. They generally form a mini-catchment in which people have cultural links and can traverse within a reasonable time. They constitute the highest level of local governance. They provide professional support to and coordinate village governments. An intermediate level government is often provided as a link between district and village governments.
Large cities have autonomous city governments.
Most social and environmental matters are in the exclusive jurisdiction of local governments. Social or environmental conflict at the grassroots level should be mediated at the intermediate and finally at the district or city level. The state and national governments should have no jurisdiction over such issues. History has shown that communities have lived in harmony with each other at the local level, and that it is higher level politics, priesthood and feudal interests that have divided them. Ethnic conflicts are becoming a major global concern the world over.