Conflict over water threatens mining, farming communities. While mining and farming activities have been hailed for creating employment and bringing development to Zimbabwe, development is still ...
conflict dynamics at global, regional, national and local levels. There is growing recognition of the link between land and armed conflict and more and more concern that land can be a cause or trigger for conflict, a critical factor causing its relapse, or a bottleneck to post-conflict recovery. Almost every major peace agreement
Land tenure is often overlooked as a cause of tension or driver of conflicts especially in the design of responses to conflict situations in mining areas.
While mining promotes rapid urban development, it also aggravates land use conflicts and threatens the sustainable development of mining cities. Land use conflict evaluation provides a basis for the coordination of different land use types.
Trained scientists complemented the dataset by sampling additional locations. We analyzed the resulting dataset to address the concerns about potential mining impacts on the environment and community health. Based on those outcomes, we further evaluated the effectiveness of community-based monitoring for mining areas in …
"The sources of conflict are many, from resource extraction, logging, land for renewal energy sources and agribusiness to conflict between indigenous pastoralists, nomadic herders and farmers over shrinking grazing lands due to war, and the effects of climate change as well as the establishment of conservation areas", she said in a ...
The main areas that are taken into account in this research paper are, causes of the occurrence of problems and challenges in rural areas, the problems and challenges experienced by rural ...
The Mnangagwa government can take a number of steps to tamp down violence in gold mining areas. It should revise the country's Mines and Minerals Act to give artisanal mining cooperatives legal standing, and adequately fund the ministry of mines unit responsible for the artisanal mining sector.
Increase in competition for limited resources has oftentimes led to violent conflicts between herdsmen and farmers in many parts of Nigeria. The conflict has in recent years taken more dangerous ...
The practical implications of our study suggest that policy mak-ers and mining companies must better understand the underlying causes of mining conflicts and that mining companies must consider informal approaches, such as dialog, to alleviate the negative con-sequences of conflicts.
Causes. The causes of conflicts in Africa are many and they frequently recur, including major causes of potential tensions and conflicts, which could perhaps be summarised and classified below. Inter-state borders. Common to many conflicts is the unsatisfactory nature of inter-state borders.
Unemployment and underemployment are closely linked to poverty and insecurity, two concepts that are common among Nigerian youths. Their negative implications are also reflected in vices such as ...
Project documenting illegal gold mining or 'galamsey' operations in the Western Region of Ghana and their environmental impacts.
The root causes of these conflicts which have almost become persistent are largely traceable to the introduction of secular political authority (Chieftaincy) in areas which before colonisation ...
This paper examined the link between youth unemployment and violent crime, as available data sourced from 2006-2016 for ten developing countries in Africa (Botswana, Morocco, Mauritius, Namibia ...
A Brief Overview of Mining in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has a glorious history of the mining industry dating back to the pr e-colonial era. Its mineral resource base is composed of coal, chromium ore ...
MINDANAO, Philippines — Mount Apo, a protected area on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, is threatened by small-scale illegal mining, which remains a lingering problem elsewhere in …
The study by Urdal and Hoelscher (2012) that has been done to conduct the causes of political instability and which is a study on youth unemployment and political violence found that the presence of youth unemployment increases the risk of conflict.
Moreover, the dearth of research on hidden unemployment in the Northeast State-owned Forest Areas exacerbates this issue. Thus, it has become imperative to quantify the extent of hidden unemployment in these regions to facilitate a deeper analysis of its causes and ramifications.
Mining conflicts are comprised of diverse socio-territorial mobilizations that originate in different parts of countries where mineral deposits are exploited, and became politicized to target international companies and national state policies. To analyze the diversity of mining conflicts, this paper develops a multidimensional matrix typology …
Moreover, land use conditions were simulated in Pingshuo mining area, and the potential land use conflicts in the future were predicted. Based on the prediction in the natural development mode of land use conflict in Pingshuo mining area in 2025, the causes and mitigation measures of land use conflicts were discussed.
Conflicts are an inevitable part of life, and when it comes to managing conflicting interests among stakeholders in software companies, they are bound to arise. But what are the common sources of these conflicts? Let's dive into that ocean of swirling emotions and agitated opinions to uncover the underlying causes.
In the postcolonial era, however, these two variables have combined with high population growth rates, low levels of urbanization, and rural–rural migration flows to produce large amounts of 'sons of the soil' conflict over land. Evidence from contemporary civil wars in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo supports my theory.
Some of the factors that have led to the rise and persistence of banditry in Nigeria are under-governed spaces, a weak security apparatus, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, socioeconomic conditions such as poverty and unemployment, cattle rustling, and illegal mining activities in the North West.
The high incidence of galamsey or illegal mining in recent times, have been on several discussions and heated debates for some time now and has perplexed the minds of the general public in Ghana ...
This paper offers insight on the missed narrative of land and resource conflict beneath the reality of gemstones and ores in the inchoate industry of limestone, marble and gold mining by communities in Karamoja – Uganda. Land tenure is often overlooked as a cause of tension or driver of conflicts especially in the design of …
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), about the size of Western Europe, is the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). DRC is endowed with exceptional natural resources, including minerals such as cobalt and copper, hydropower potential, significant arable land, immense biodiversity, and the world's second-largest rainforest.
The paper reveals the peculiar nature of the Obuasi ASM-mining company conflict in which grievance seems to factor minimally in explaining the cause. The recent escalation of illegal mining activity on the company's concession has, at times, sparked disputes and violent clashes between the parties.
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