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VOLUME 03 (2025) | Pastures & Pastoralism

Gradually, pasturelands are being converted into other land uses or enclosed for exclusive uses under various national laws or policies. Resilience of pastoralist communities to the changing environments – ecological, economic and political – has great potential to protecting and conserving the pastureland landscapes or waterscapes. Such resilience is more talked in context of climate change and its impact on the herder communities surviving in marginal environments. In the view of widespread regional and national policy failures and modernity-catalyzed societal rejection of transhumance and nomadic pastoralism, International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 declared by the United Nations General Assembly is a grand opportunity for all to revitalize the least-external-input driven systems of livestock raising and mobility across the continents. This international blind peer-review journal, ‘Pastures & Pastoralism’, will contribute to the science, policy and practice across the world by providing a novel platform to seasoned, budding and young scientists, experts and practitioners, including the pastoral community members.

VOLUME 3, (2025)

M – 00544Research Article

Peacebuilding Practices in Cross-Border Conflicts: The Ethiopia-Turkana Case Study

Asmare Shetahun Alemneh

Department of Political Science and International Relation, College of Social Science and Humanities, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia. Email: asmare.shetahun@amu.edu.et, asmareshitahun@gmail.com

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4405-9236

Pastures & Pastoralism, 03, 48-65. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0303

Received: 18 September 2024

Reviewed: 17 March 2025

Revised: 28 March 2025

Accepted: 15 April 2025

Published: 15 May 2025


                                    

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ABSTRACT

Conflict and peace have an impact on the current and future relationship of the community. Peace is the most important need and value of the pastoral community, and conflict is destructive and unimportant to them. To build peace, various actors have participated through different approaches. Inter-state diplomacy, non-state actors' engagement, international and intergovernmental organizations' participation and the role of community-based indigenous institutions contributed to the practices of peacebuilding. However, the objective of building lasting peace is still not achieved. Particularly, the federal government of Ethiopia gives less attention to the impact of cross-border conflicts in the study area, and the Kenyan government gives much attention to the issue of conflict and peacebuilding. The environmental change, resource scarcity like water and pasture land, drought, the availability of small arms, animal raiding, and killings for revenge and heroism, cultural factors triggered the conflicts and violence. The study, therefore, concluded that using multiple approaches to peacebuilding helps to mitigate conflict and can stop violence related to resource-based conflicts. Moreover, developing peace leadership could play a vital role in the realization of peace in the area.

Keywords

Pastoralism; Agro-pastoralism; Peacebuilding; Resources; Conflict; Cross-border conflicts; Violence; Peace

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APA Style

Alemneh, A. S. (2025). Peacebuilding Practices in Cross-Border Conflicts: The Ethiopia-Turkana Case Study. Pastures & Pastoralism, 03, 48-65. https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0303

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Alemneh, A. S. (2025). Peacebuilding Practices in Cross-Border Conflicts: The Ethiopia-Turkana Case Study. Pastures & Pastoralism, 03: 48-65. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0303

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Alemneh A. S. Peacebuilding Practices in Cross-Border Conflicts: The Ethiopia-Turkana Case Study. Pastures & Pastoralism, 2025, 03, 48-65. https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0303

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Alemneh, Shetahun Alemneh. 2025. “Peacebuilding Practices in Cross-Border Conflicts: The Ethiopia-Turkana Case Study”. Pastures & Pastoralism, 03: 48-65. https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0303

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