Militianisation of resource conflicts
Subtitle: the case of land-based conflict in the Mount Elgon region of Western Kenya
By: Robert Romborah Simiyu.
Contributors: Institute for Security Studies (South Africa)
Series: ISS monograph series -- no. 152
Publisher: Institute for Security Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781920114497
Subjects: Militia movements -- Kenya; Internally displaced persons -- Kenya; Land tenure -- Kenya
Description: The land conflict currently playing out in the Mount Elgon District can be traced back to the colonial policy of alienating African land to create room for white settler farms. In the case of the Sabaot community, their ancestral grazing land on the extensive plains of what is now Trans-Nzoia District was taken away from them in the early 1930s without compensation. Not only did this alienate the community from its means of livelihood, but the dispersal patterns of the displaced members also heralded a process of intra-community differentiation and rivalry that fuels the current conflict.
Notes: "October 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (73-75).

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