Land, Identity and Climate change: Understanding the peacebuilding efforts to address complex farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria.

土地、身份和气候变化：了解尼日利亚为解决复杂的农牧民冲突而进行的建设和平努力。

• 批准号: 2751058
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2751058
• 关键词: Land; Identity; Climate; change; Understanding

In the Middle-Belt region of Nigeria, there are regular violent clashes between farming communities, and herders. The herders are mostly from the dryer Northern part of the country, and they bring their cattle to the greener agrarian south in search of grass and water for their herds. The farmers mostly identify as Christian and are from different ethnic groups indigenous to the region, while the herders mostly identify as Muslim and are primarily from the Fulani ethnic group. Several explanations have been suggested as to why this conflict continues. Some focus on the impact of climate change and the desertification in the North, others on the struggle for scarce land resources, and others on the different identities of the groups in conflict. Instead of looking at these as individual reasons for the conflict, however, this research will explore how these factors converge. It seeks to provide a comprehensive explanation for why the farmer-herder conflict occurs and the reasons for its' persistence. International organisations, the Nigerian government, and local NGOs are all making efforts to promote peace in the region. This research will analyse these efforts and explore how the groups in conflict are experiencing the various peacebuilding interventions and policies at the different levels of intervention, the underlying reasons for why the interventions are being experienced as they are, why interventions in the region have been failing, and what policy makers and peacebuilders need to do differently. The project will produce both academic outputs and policy recommendations for peacebuilding actors.

在尼日利亚的中部地带，农业社区和牧民之间经常发生暴力冲突。牧民大多来自该国干燥的北方地区，他们把牲畜带到更绿色的南方农业区，为牲畜寻找草和水。农民大多认为自己是基督徒，来自该地区的不同土著民族，而牧民大多认为自己是穆斯林，主要来自富拉尼族。关于这场冲突为何继续存在，人们提出了几种解释。有些侧重于气候变化和北方荒漠化的影响，有些侧重于争夺稀缺土地资源，还有一些侧重于冲突群体的不同身份。然而，本研究将探讨这些因素如何融合，而不是将这些因素视为冲突的个别原因。它试图全面解释为什么会发生农牧民冲突及其持续存在的原因。国际组织、尼日利亚政府和当地非政府组织都在努力促进该地区的和平。这项研究将分析这些努力，并探讨冲突中的群体如何在不同的干预水平上经历各种建设和平的干预措施和政策，为什么这些干预措施正在经历的根本原因，为什么该地区的干预措施一直失败，以及决策者和建设和平者需要做些什么不同的事情。该项目将为建设和平行为体提供学术产出和政策建议。