Emerging Local Voices and New Possibilities toward Attaining Sustainable Peace in Bawku, north-eastern Ghana

IF 0.1 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aminu Dramani, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi
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Globally, conflicts continue to change dynamics and increase in complexity, weakening the potential of various peacebuilding interventions, especially in the Global South. The Bawku crisis is a notable protracted conflict in Ghana and West Africa, which attracts enormous scholarly debates, especially on how to attain sustained peace in the area. However, there remains some important dynamics that are not significantly explored in the discussions on achieving sustained peace in Bawku. Drawing on in-depth field interviews, we present a new perspective on chieftaincy and landownership (and use), shifting from absolute control to a shared system, aimed at potentially resolving conflicts. The proposed shared political and landownership system also reveals important weaknesses relating to existing court verdicts and scholarly advocacy for a parallel system or the resettlement of the Mamprusi outside of the area. However, this empirical contribution offers a new possibility to resolve the Bawku crisis and similar challenges in Ghana and Africa.
在加纳东北部的博库,正在出现的地方声音和实现可持续和平的新可能性
在全球范围内,冲突继续改变动态并增加复杂性,削弱了各种建设和平干预措施的潜力,特别是在全球南方。博库危机是加纳和西非的一场引人注目的旷日持久的冲突,引起了大量的学术辩论,特别是关于如何在该地区实现持久和平的辩论。然而,在关于在包库实现持久和平的讨论中,仍有一些重要的动态没有得到充分探讨。通过深入的实地采访,我们提出了一个关于酋长和土地所有权(和使用)的新视角,从绝对控制转向共享系统,旨在潜在地解决冲突。拟议的共同政治和土地所有权制度也显示出与现有法院判决和学术界倡导的平行制度或在该地区以外重新安置马姆普西人有关的重大弱点。然而,这一实证贡献为解决博库危机以及加纳和非洲的类似挑战提供了一种新的可能性。
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