Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

Schmidt, Bettina E.; Schröder, Ingo

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“…Tribal loyalties and highly 'exclusive' ethnic identities are imposed on a society though rebel narratives. 41 Insurgent groups also gain legitimacy by utilizing a strategy of provocation. These groups engage in violence in order to provoke the regular army to escalate its use of force, thereby creating enormous hardships for the local population.…”

Section: Small Wars and Insurgencies 35mentioning

confidence: 99%

Escalation and de-escalation of violence in insurgencies: Insights from Northeast India

Goswami

2013

Small Wars & Insurgencies

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Escalation and de-escalation of violence in insurgencies: Insights from Northeast India

Goswami

2013

Small Wars & Insurgencies

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“…Allen's approach echoes those of many other recent writers on peacemaking and social reconstruction, not only elsewhere in Africa (on Zimbabwe, for example, see Alexander, McGregor & Ranger 2000; Reynolds 1996; Werbner 1991; 1998; Reynolds 1996) but also in recent ethnographic studies of other parts of the world affected by warfare (see the collections edited by Das, Kleinman, Lock, Ramphele & Reynolds 2001; Das, Kleinman, Lock & Reynolds 2000; also Aijmer & Abbink 2000; Schmidt & Schroeder 2001; Stewart & Strathern 2002). This is the case not only in anthropology but also in related disciplinary fields, such as history, media studies, and literary theory (cf., e.g., Douglass & Vogler 2003; LaCapra 2001; Wood 1999).…”

Section: Peacemaking and Reconstructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Why Are We Cursed?’: Writing History and Making Peace in North West Uganda

Leopold

2005

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article examines the nature of peacemaking and social reconstruction in Arua district, a marginalized border area of Uganda, in the late 1990s. After considering other recent accounts of violence and peacemaking, it focuses on the roles of local history writing and other forms of historical narrative in coming to terms with past violence. Local historians had two main aims: to maintain a particular understanding of the past within the local community itself, and to present themselves to others as the victims, rather than the perpetrators, of the violence in their past, as part of a wider process of mending relationships with both neighbouring groups and the Ugandan state. In attempting this, they deployed a variety of media that may be understood as historical narratives, from the performance of ritual healing ceremonies to writing conventional local histories.This article considers the role of historical narratives in peacemaking and social reconstruction in what is now called Arua district in North West Uganda on the borders with southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre). In doing this, it departs from much recent writing on peace and reconstruction, which tends to be dominated by a medicalized and individualized bodily discourse of 'trauma', healing social 'wounds', and similar metaphors. 1 I carried out fieldwork in the district in three phases between 1995 and 1998, over which time Arua became caught up in three interlinked conflicts -civil wars in both the neighbouring countries and the Ugandan state's own fight against local rebel groups. Violence was not, however, a novel experience for the people of the district, most of whom had been forced into exile over the borders in the early 1980s. Indeed the area has been both associated with violence in the minds of others, and itself experienced the reality of violence, since the first arrival of outsiders from very different cultures in the mid nineteenth century. 2 In the course of the conflicts of the 1990s a relatively elite group of male elders who saw themselves as, in some ways, representing traditional cultural authority took to writing history. They did this, they told me, both as a way of explaining their past to others -such as the Ugandan state and people from richer and more powerful areas of the country -and as part of an internal process of social reconstruction which was itself happening at a time of

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“…The anthropological notion of conflict has usually been derived from the biological concept of competition (in its most succinct form, competition being defined as it occurs when two or more individuals, populations, or species simultaneously use a resource that is actually or potentially limiting (Schmidt and Schröder, 2001)). Conflict is a struggle or contest between people with opposing needs, ideas, beliefs, values, or goals.…”

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Vendetta case and oath based indigenous conflict management in Jawi district, Northwest Ethiopia: A symbolic ritual perspective

Genet¹

2019

J. Afr. Stud. Dev

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Study was conducted on the mitigation of vendetta case and oath based conflict management in Jawi district of northwest Ethiopia. The study was aimed at investigating the mitigation and reconciliation of vendetta and management of conflicts through an oath, from a symbolic ritual perspective. Primary data were collected by in-depth interviewing of informants and through informal conversation methods. Secondary sources reviewed from empirical researches, statistical documents and from locally conducted studies on the study theme were used to complement first hand data. The primary and secondary data were analyzed and organized thematically, cross checking the results obtained by those methods to increase validity of the research. The study found that vendetta, which has been a common phenomenon in the study area, was mitigated and resolved through an indigenous reconciliation system accompanied by a symbolic ritual. Oath involving diverse symbolic procedures was found to be another widely practiced mechanism of managing disputes in the study area. In both cases the traditional role of symbolism appeared to be crucial in terminating violence, implementing and sustaining effective reconciliation, and rebuilding harmony and peaceful coexistence in the society. The strict traditional symbolic rituals and procedures containing elements of supernatural belief conducted during reconciliation of vendetta and execution of an oath reinforce on the disputing parties a serious observance of the reconciliation. The study implied that the indigenous reconciliation of vendetta and oath based management of conflicts, together with the aid of symbolism, are effective in restoring sustainable peace and efficient in terms of finance, time, and energy.

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Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

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Escalation and de-escalation of violence in insurgencies: Insights from Northeast India

Escalation and de-escalation of violence in insurgencies: Insights from Northeast India

‘Why Are We Cursed?’: Writing History and Making Peace in North West Uganda

Vendetta case and oath based indigenous conflict management in Jawi district, Northwest Ethiopia: A symbolic ritual perspective

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