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2 Conflict in Rural Settings
2 Conflict in Rural Settings
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Extension agents can help to prevent or reduce conflict, as described by three speakers in the first session of the workshop. The presenters considered the potential roles of extension agents in conflicts over land in rural settings, challenges associated with postconflict reintegration, and experiences providing training for mediating disputes between farming and pastoral communities in rural Afghanistan.
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Deeply held grievances that are not resolved by a peace accord may be related to land issues. Displaced people may return to areas that are occupied by others, endangered by land mines, or agriculturally damaged.
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SOURCE: Unruh workshop presentation. A fundamental need in such situations is to connect informal legal pluralism in postwar scenarios with formal law.
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They need to be familiar with customary means of claiming land tenure and know how to upgrade them to more formal claims. In this respect, an important function is to encourage processes that make customary institutions relevant to state law.
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Honest brokers of information can also help to make parts of state law understandable and workable for local communities. Such assistance in upgrading claims from informal or indirectly relevant documents, Unruh observed, encourages a transition from legal pluralism to more formal methods of making and appealing decisions.
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Reintegration of Communities Communities and parts of countries often need to be reintegrated into the state after a conflict. If a region was marginalized or ignored by the central government, its residents may feel little loyalty to the state and instead support nonstate actors challenging the government.
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The most appropriate and effective model will differ depending on the context. CONFLICT RESOLUTION AMONG AFGHAN HERDERS The nomadic herders in Afghanistan known as the Kuchi demonstrate a fundamental lesson of the application of extension to peacebuilding, said Michael Jacobs, CoPrincipal Investigator and Chief of Party for the Afghanistan Pastoral Engagement, Adaptation and Capacity Enhancement (PEACE)
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The PEACE project approached the challenges along migration routes by training and supporting Kuchi leaders to resolve land conflicts for their people. Project staff also sought to reestablish the relationship between villagers and herders, in part by seeking out local village and Kuchi leaders who would work together to resolve conflicts and build peace.
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Cindi Warren Mentz, Director, External Relations, Middle East and North Africa, for CRDF Global, returned to the fundamental observation that extension agents provide jobs and contribute to stability by building agricultural capacity and increasing productivity. Closely related to the tasks of extension agents is the nature of their relationship with the local population.
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In Liberia, for example, few people are available to serve as extension agents, whereas more people have those skill sets in Colombia. Unruh added that a significant challenge can be to convince a person with a university degree to serve as an extension agent in a war-torn part of a country.
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