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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Liberia
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Burkina Faso
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Sierra Leone
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Nigeria
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Niger
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Mali
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Senegal
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2010Guinea
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2010Mali
Does climate change drive conflict over land use in Mali?
This study investigates the alleged relationship between climate change and conflicts, using the Inland Delta of the Niger River in Mali as a case study, where this region is an African hotspot area in terms of land use conflicts.
The author emphasises that, despite the clear climate developments in the region throughout the last century, researchers are much less sure about future changes. Moreover, the paper finds that:
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksFebruary, 2010Africa, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone's conflict has often been characterized as a 'crisis of youth'. For some, the post-war resurgence of grassroots associational life represents the unleashing of long-suppressed youth egalitarianism, yet this analysis tends to ignore the role of international aid in providing an economic incentive for impoverished Sierra Leoneans to embrace formal association. Case study evidence also shows that politics of 'community' identification and moral economies of patronage continue to affect postwar aid.
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