Prédation et violence au Mali: élites statutaires peules et logiques de domination dans la région de Mopti

Jourde, Cédric; Brossier, Marie; Cisse, M.G. (Modibo)

doi:10.1080/00083968.2019.1666016

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“…Farmer-herder conflicts have increased in the last decade due to various factors, including the expansion of farming into livestock corridors and the mobility of herders induced by the violent conflict and droughts (Ibrahim and Zapata, 2018;Jourde et al, 2019). The increasing variability in climate and the rise in the number of extreme weather events have negatively affected pastoralist communities in different ways, including the reduction of pasture and water that will further diminish their ability to maintain their primary source of livelihood (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, 2018; USAID, 2018; Nagarajan, 2020).…”

Section: Pathway : Farmer-herder Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is climate exacerbating the root causes of conflict in Mali? A climate security analysis through a structural equation modeling approach

Pacillo

Kangogo²,

Madurga-Lopez³

et al. 2022

Front. Clim.

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Climate continues to pose significant challenges to human existence. Notably, in the past decade, the focus on the role of climate on conflict and social unrest has gained traction in academic, development, and policy communities. This article examines the link between climate variability and conflict in Mali. It advances the argument that climate is a threat multiplier, in other words, climate indirectly affects conflict occurrence through numerous pathways. We take the view that maize production and household food security status sequentially mediate the relationship between climate variability and the different conflict types. First, we provide a brief review of the climate conflict pathways in Mali. Second, we employ the path analysis within the structural equation modeling technique to test the hypothesized pathways and answer the research questions. We use the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), a nationally representative data from Mali merged with time and location-specific climate and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) data. Results show that an increase in positive temperature anomalies when sequentially mediated by maize production and household food security status, increase the occurrence of the different conflict types. The results are robust to the use of negative precipitation anomalies (tendency toward less precipitation compared to the historical norm). Our findings highlight two key messages, first, the crucial role of climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies and interventions on influencing household food security status and thus reducing conflict occurrence. Second, that efforts to build peace and security should account for the role of climate in exacerbating the root causes of conflict.

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Section: Pathway : Farmer-herder Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is climate exacerbating the root causes of conflict in Mali? A climate security analysis through a structural equation modeling approach

Pacillo

Kangogo²,

Madurga-Lopez³

et al. 2022

Front. Clim.

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“…The conflict in Sari and its consequences demonstrate the cleavage within Fulani society between traditional elites and more common pastoralists (Benjaminsen and Ba, 2019;Jourde, Brossier, and Cissé, 2019). At the same time, it is a representation of a classic farmer-herder conflict over control over space.…”

Section: Land Relations and Governance In The Seeno Plainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For decades, the rural peasantry in Mali, and especially pastoralists, have complained about the predatory behavior of state and traditional elites (Turner, 2006;Ba, 2009, 2019;De Bruijn and Both, 2017;Jourde, Brossier, and Cissé, 2019). Rent-seeking by government officials has been particularly intense in relation to conflicts between farming and pastoralism often leading herders to feel disempowered and marginalized when access to key spaces is lost.…”

Section: Insurgency Counterinsurgency and Communal Violencementioning

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“…But since 2015, state officials have been leaving the central Mopti region for security reasons and insurgency groups have gradually been able to replace the state and expand their authority and influence. In particular many Fulani pastoralists have joined the armed insurgency due to a general feeling of marginalization and because they are attracted by a jihadist anti-corruption, anti-elite and pro-pastoral discourse (De Bruijn and Both, 2017;Benjaminsen and Ba, 2019;Jourde, Brossier, and Cissé, 2019).…”

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Fulani-Dogon Killings in Mali: Farmer-Herder Conflicts as Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

Benjaminsen

2021

African Security

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Violent clashes between Fulani and Dogon have recently escalated in the Seeno plains in central Mali. After failing to defeat a "jihadist" insurgency dominated by Fulani, the Malian army has sponsored and trained a Dogon militia, which has systematically attacked Fulani villages, and again caused counterattacks. In addition, internal conflicts within Fulani and Dogon society have emerged. This demonstrates the complexities of the current crisis in Mali and how simplistic narratives about its causes are unhelpful. It also shows how views of the enemy as "terrorists" or "jihadists" are dangerous and able to further fuel violent conflicts.

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“…These elements have produced two principal effects: On the one hand, they have increased criticism of the presence of the international interveners among local communities, diffusing the perception of external powers as ‘imperialist invaders’ (Charbonneau, 2017a). On the other hand, they have dramatically impacted on the political legitimacy of the governmental elites and their local clients and representatives (Jourde et al., 2019). As a result, the presence of jihadist fighters could be seen as a self-fulfilling prophecy vis-a-vis the international region-building project: the strong international security engagement in the area and the indirect support the international actors are providing to dysfunctional governmental practices have turned the Sahel into an ‘ideal’ theatre for developing a Sahelian branch of the global jihad (Pérouse de Montclos, 2015).…”

Section: Conclusion: An ‘Impossible Truth’ For the Sahel?mentioning

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Rashomon in the Sahel: Conflict dynamics of security regionalism

Baldaro

2020

Security Dialogue

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The African Sahel is a region whose geopolitical dimensions are constantly changing and evolving as a result of new intersections of international, regional and local security dynamics. In this context, various actors have initiated different regional projects in an attempt to reframe the area according to their interests and specific interpretations of security and to impose the form of order that best fits with their goals. The discursive, normative and material struggle about the definition of the region is having obvious effects on security and conflict, furthering regional instability. This article disentangles the different region-building initiatives at work in the area by identifying the four groups of actors advancing a specific project around the Sahel, namely: (1) international security deliverers, (2) jihadist insurgent groups, (3) regional governmental elites, and (4) local communities and populations. In so doing, it explores how the different spatial and security imaginaries advanced by these four collective agents struggle and interact, and shows that the Sahel can be considered the unintended result of a competitive process that is furthering conflict and violence in a shifting regional security system.

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Prédation et violence au Mali: élites statutaires peules et logiques de domination dans la région de Mopti

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Is climate exacerbating the root causes of conflict in Mali? A climate security analysis through a structural equation modeling approach

Is climate exacerbating the root causes of conflict in Mali? A climate security analysis through a structural equation modeling approach

Fulani-Dogon Killings in Mali: Farmer-Herder Conflicts as Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

Rashomon in the Sahel: Conflict dynamics of security regionalism

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