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   Strong Institutions in Weak States: Institution Building, Natural Resource Governance, and Conflict in Ghana and Sierra Leone

   Journal Articles & Books

   March, 2017

   Ghana, Sierra Leone

   Land in post-conflict settings

   land governance

   land policies

   environment

   natural resources management

   land conflicts

   land dispute

   Since the end of the Cold War, natural resources have assumed an increasingly prominent role in security, conflict, and peace studies. Scholars and development practitioners alike view the development of strong institutions, which aim to domesticate global regulatory regimes that foster neoliberal principles like privatization, transparency, and accountability, as necessary to mitigate natural resource conflict in resource-rich states, as well as enhance opportunities for peace and social justice.

2. Library Resource

   

   Land Dispute and Resolution Process Among the Youth Under the Customary System in the Techiman Traditional Area of Ghana

   Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa

   Peer-reviewed publication

   January, 2020

   Ghana

   Land Conflicts

   Land in post-conflict settings

   land

   land dispute

   land dispute resolution

   youth

   Securing land rights of all including the youth to allow for investment is very imperative. This is because access to land is very fundamental to ending extreme poverty especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa where agriculture remains the economic backbone of majority of households.  To this end, access to fair and timeous land disputes resolution mechanism to adjudicate and resolve disputes which create tenure insecurity is critical. This study investigates land dispute cases and the resolution mechanisms among the youth land holders in the Techiman area of Ghana.

3. Library Resource

   

   Housing Development, Local Land Conflicts and Sustainable Land-use Planning in Peri-urban Ghana

   Vol 4, No 1: January 2021

   Peer-reviewed publication

   January, 2021

   Ghana

   Land Conflicts

   Land in post-conflict settings

   development

   land-use planning

   conflicts

   land

   land conflicts

   This paper examines the various ways local land conflicts affect sustainable land-use planning in peri-urban Ghana. In recent years, rapid urbanisation has resulted a high demand for customary lands for housing development in peri-urban areas in Ghana. Customary lands are continuously converted into housing uses; leading to eviction of indigenes from their farmlands. A mixed method approach was used to collect data from 40 participants from the research site, Aburaso.

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   Building on “Traditional” Land Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Rural Ghana: Adaptive or Anachronistic?

   Volume 10 Issue 2

   Peer-reviewed publication

   February, 2021

   Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land Conflicts

   Land in post-conflict settings

   land dispute

   land dispute resolution

   tenure security

   Despite the ongoing land administration reforms being implemented across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Ghana, as a viable pathway to achieve tenure security and greater efficiency in land administration, the subject of land dispute resolution has received relatively less attention. Whereas customary tenure institutions play a central role in land administration (controlling ~80% of all land in Ghana), they remain at the fringes of the formal land dispute adjudicatory process.