scholarly journals Fit-For-Purpose Applications in Colombia: Defining Land Boundary Conflicts between Indigenous Sikuani and Neighbouring Settler Farmers

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 382
Author(s):  
Laura Becerra ◽  
Mathilde Molendijk ◽  
Nicolas Porras ◽  
Piet Spijkers ◽  
Bastiaan Reydon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Social Cartography ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Communal Lands

One of the most difficult types of land-related conflict is that between Indigenous peoples and third parties, such as settler farmers or companies looking for new opportunities who are encroaching on Indigenous communal lands. Nearly 30% of Colombia’s territory is legally owned by Indigenous peoples. This article focuses on boundary conflicts between Indigenous peoples and neighbouring settler farmers in the Cumaribo municipality in Colombia. Boundary conflicts here raise fierce tensions: discrimination of the others and perceived unlawful occupation of land. At the request of Colombia’s rural cadastre (Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC)), the Dutch cadastre (Kadaster) applied the fit-for-purpose (FFP) land administration approach in three Indigenous Sikuani reserves in Cumaribo to analyse how participatory mapping can provide a trustworthy basis for conflict resolution. The participatory FFP approach was used to map land conflicts between the reserves and the neighbouring settler farmers and to discuss possible solutions of overlapping claims with all parties involved. Both Indigenous leaders and neighbouring settler farmers measured their perceived claims in the field, after a thorough socialisation process and a social cartography session. In a public inspection, field measurements were shown, with the presence of the cadastral authority IGAC. Showing and discussing the results with all stakeholders helped to clarify the conflicts, to reduce the conflict to specific, relatively small, geographical areas, and to define concrete steps towards solutions.

scholarly journals Transforming Land Administration Practices through the Application of Fit-For-Purpose Technologies: Country Case Studies in Africa

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 538
Author(s):  
Danilo Antonio ◽  
Solomon Njogu ◽  
Hellen Nyamweru ◽  
John Gitau
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Domain Model ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Inclusive Processes

Access to land for many people in Africa is insecure and continues to pose risks to poverty, hunger, forced evictions, and social conflicts. The delivery of land tenure in many cases has not been adequately addressed. Fit-for-purpose spatial frameworks need to be adapted to the context of a country based on simple, affordable, and incremental solutions toward addressing these challenges. This paper looked at three case studies on the use of the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) tool in promoting the development of a fit-for-purpose land administration spatial framework. Data gathering from primary and secondary sources was used to investigate the case studies. The empirical findings indicated that the use and application of the STDM in support of the fit-for-purpose land administration framework is quite effective and can facilitate the improvement in land tenure security. The findings also revealed that the tool, together with participatory and inclusive processes, has the potential to contribute to other frameworks of Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration (FFP LA) toward influencing changes in policy and institutional practices. Evidently, there was a remarkable improvement in the institutional arrangements and collaboration among different institutions, as well as a notable reduction in land conflicts or disputes in all three case studies.

scholarly journals Social Cartography as a Tool for Conflict Analysis and Resolution: The Experience of the Afro-Colombian Communities of Robles

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Bastidas ◽  
Carlos Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Conflict Analysis ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Social Cartography ◽  
Conflict Analysis And Resolution

The field of conflict resolution is in constant evolution. Every day, theories are defined and redefined, and new contributions are made to the field. This continuous process challenges scholars, researchers, and practitioners to develop new conceptual and methodological frameworks for the analysis of conflict. This article highlights the potential of social cartography (participatory mapping) as a tool for the transformation of environmental and social conflicts at the household, community, national, and international levels. The advantages of social cartography as an appraisal, planning, and analytical tool for conflict transformation are illustrated here with a case study of the Afro-Colombian community of Robles.

scholarly journals KONFLIK TANAH PERKEBUNAN ANTARA MASYARAKAT DENGAN PT DI KENAGARIAN AUA KUNING KECAMATAN PASAMAN KABUPATEN PASAMAN BARAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Meldawati Mel
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Land Conflict ◽  
Source Criticism ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
Fertile Land

Land conflicts in West Sumatra, in general are ulayat land conflicts, both between indigenous peoples (internal-horizontal conflicts) and between indigenous peoples and third parties (internal-vertical conflicts), especially with government, private, legaland military corporations. West Pasaman Regency is one of the regencies that has fertile land, many people depend on oil palm agriculture. One of them is Pasaga Kenagarian Subdistrict Aua Kuniang, is one of the sub-districts located in West Pasaman Regency which has the potential of abundant and abundant natural wealth. Therefore the community of Kenagarian Aua Kuniang is almost 70 percent dominant as oil palm farmers. The emergence of oil palm companies that are highly related to land, it is not uncommon to find land conflicts, especially land conflicts between companies themselves and local communities. This problem is how the background of the plantation land conflict between the community and PT. in Kenagarian Aua Kuniang, as for the purpose of this paper the purpose of this study is to describe the background of the occurrence of plantation land conflicts between the community and PT. in Kenagarian Aua Kuniang. This method of writing uses historical methods that go through four stages, namely heuristics, source criticism, synthesis and interpretation and historiography.

scholarly journals Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration in Violent Conflict Settings

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Clarissa Augustinus ◽  
Ombretta Tempra
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Fit For Purpose

According to the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, there were 79.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide by the end of 2019. Evictions from homes and land are often linked to protracted violent conflict. Land administration (LA) can be a small part of UN peace-building programs addressing these conflicts. Through the lens of the UN and seven country cases, the problem being addressed is: what are the key features of fit-for-purpose land administration (FFP LA) in violent conflict contexts? FFP LA involves the same LA elements found in conventional LA and FFP LA, and LA in post conflict contexts, as it supports peace building and conflict resolution. However, in the contexts being examined, FFP LA also has novel features as well, such as extra-legal transitional justice mechanisms to protect people and their land rights and to address historical injustices and the politics of exclusion that are the root causes of conflict. In addition, there are land governance and power relations’ implications, as FFP LA is part of larger UN peace-building programs. This impacts the FFP LA design. The cases discussed are from Darfur/Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Iraq, Jubaland/Somalia, Peru and South Sudan.

Natural resource use conflicts in a changing climate: The case of the wetlands of Kilombero and Kilosa districts in Tanzania.

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Emma T. Liwenga ◽  
Florian Silangwa
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Resource Competition ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Abstract In Tanzania studies on conflicts between subsistence farmers and agropastoralists/pastoralists as well communities versus conservationists have been frequently reported. These include studies on water use conflicts in the Pangan River Basin. Agropastoralists have also been evicted as a result of these conflicts. The overriding tendency has thus been centered on discussion about what keeps pastoralists and crop cultivators apart rather than what keeps them together. Although conflicts occur mainly as a result of resource competition, some conflicts constitute only one aspect of a much more complex interaction between the two groups. Little has been documented in examining the relative contribution of climatic and non-climatic factors in aggravating these conflicts and how this triggers various dimensions of conflicts among livelihood groups. This study examined the relative contribution of climatic and non-climatic factors as causes of natural resource conflict, based on a study conducted in Kilosa and Kilombero districts in south-central Tanzania. The study further examined conflict resolution mechanisms in terms of adaptive capacity to address these issues in a changing climate and in particular explored the roles of institutions in conflict resolution, and the associated challenges and opportunities involved. The study was conducted through a household survey, focus group discussions and expert interviews with Kilosa and Kilombero district land planning officers. The aim was to understand the challenges of land use planning and how those transformed into conflicts between users. The results of the interviews in the two districts revealed that there were land conflicts related to boundary disputes between and among villages, investors against villages or communities, and government agencies versus villages or investors. Unlike Kilosa, Kilombero District had more land conflicts involving villages and government institutions. There is a complicated land conflict in 25 villages against the Ramsar site area.

Understanding and Rethinking ‘Conflict Resolution’: A Conceptual and Theoretical Framework

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-71
Author(s):  
İ. Aytaç Kadıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
Grassroots Level

This chapter details the conceptual and theoretical approaches of conflict resolution and develops a framework to understanding non-violent attempts to resolve ethno-nationalist conflicts. The chapter focuses on two interrelated arguments. Firstly, that conflict resolution efforts of states, sub-state groups and third parties provide a framework for ending ethno-nationalist violence. Secondly, that conflict resolution as a process develops an understanding of non-violent resolution efforts during the pre-negotiation and negotiation stages. The chapter divides conflict resolution approaches into three levels; the elite, middle-range and grassroots level approaches. As the book addresses peacemaking efforts between states, opposition groups and third parties, the relevance of the elite level approaches as well as other groups and the initiatives of other actors towards peace are clarified by conceptualising three major parts that play a role in peacemaking efforts: backchannel communications, P/CROs and official negotiations.

scholarly journals Issues in developing a fit for purpose system for incorporating VGI in land administration in Botswana

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 402-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kealeboga Moreri ◽  
David Fairbairn ◽  
Philip James
Keyword(s):  
Land Administration ◽  
Fit For Purpose
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