TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting Peace and Managing Farmer-Herder Conflict
T2 - The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Agogo, Ghana
AU - Setrana, Mary Boatemaa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association.
PY - 2022/6/5
Y1 - 2022/6/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Civil Society Organizations
KW - Diaspora Association
KW - Farmers Association
KW - Fulani Association
KW - resource mobilization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133877140&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/asr.2021.92
DO - 10.1017/asr.2021.92
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133877140
SN - 0002-0206
VL - 65
SP - 430
EP - 454
JO - African Studies Review
JF - African Studies Review
IS - 2
ER -