Land is now the biggest gun: climate change and conflict in Karamoja, Uganda

Abrahams, Daniel

doi:10.1080/17565529.2020.1862740

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“…Unstable political circumstances may undermine the effectiveness of foreign aid in coping with external shocks such as climate change (Chauvet and Guillaumont 2004 ). A growing body of literature shows that climate change could exacerbate social and political tensions (Schleussner et al 2016 ; Abrahams 2020 ; Sofuoğlu and Ay 2020 ), while few studies have focused on the Pacific. The political risk category lays out vulnerability in the sub-categories of social and demographics, governance, and stability (Table 5 ).…”

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Climate change and coastal resiliency of Suva, Fiji: a holistic approach for measuring climate risk using the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI)

Shiiba

Singh

Charan

et al. 2023

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Coastal cities are under severe threat from the impacts of climate change, such as sea-level rise, extreme weather events, coastal inundation, and ecosystem degradation. It is well known that the ocean, and in particular coastal environments, have been changing at an unprecedented rate, which poses increasing risks to people in small island developing states, such as Fiji. The Greater Suva Urban Area, the capital and largest metropolitan area of Fiji, is expected to be largely impacted by climate-related risks to its socio-economic, cultural, and political positions. In the face of these threats, creating a resilient city that can withstand and adapt to the impacts of climate change and promote sustainable development should be guided by a holistic approach, encompassing stakeholders from the government, the private sector, civil society organizations, and international institutions. This study assesses the risk profile of Suva city using an innovative risk information tool, the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI), which applies structured expert judgment to quantify climate-related risks in data-sparse environments. Through comparative quantification of diverse risk factors and narrative analysis, this study identifies three priority areas for Suva’s future climate-resilient actions: development of climate risk-informed urban planning, harmonized urban development and natural restoration, and enhancing the climate resilience to the tourism sector. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11027-022-10043-4.

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Climate change and coastal resiliency of Suva, Fiji: a holistic approach for measuring climate risk using the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI)

Shiiba

Singh

Charan

et al. 2023

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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“…The Karamoja region, in the northeast of Uganda, is recovering from decades of intense violent conflict, with the peak of conflict beginning following the fall of Ida Amin in 1979 and continuing into the mid‐2000s when the central government implemented a disarmament campaign (Abrahams, 2020b). Though seemingly successful in its intended outcome of removing firearms and slowing armed violence in the region, the disarmament, which was implemented under the auspices of the Karamoja Integrated Disarmament and Development Programme (KIDDP), was extremely violent with many alleged human rights violations (Human Rights Watch, 2007; Stites & Akabwai, 2009).…”

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“…In this article, I examine how sodas can influence development outcomes and local political economies. The intended goal of the field work informing this research was neither to examine sodas nor was it to examine the background objects of development (Abrahams, 2020a(Abrahams, , 2020b(Abrahams, , 2021. The importance of soda, however, became readily apparent during data collection.…”

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Lessons in a bottle: The outsized impacts of soda in development practice

Abrahams

2022

J of Intl Development

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In this article, I demonstrate how soda, an ostensibly inconsequential component of development implementation, can have wide‐ranging impacts in shaping programmatic outcomes. Drawing upon 6 months of participant observation alongside an international nongovernmental organization (NGO), I demonstrate how sodas contributed to new ways of valuing time, altered intracommunity and intercommunity relations, and offered unique insight into programme efficacy. In so doing, I argue that refocusing attention beyond the larger discourses of development to the everyday objects, mundane practices, and the interstitial spaces that populate implementation enables critical insights that would otherwise be overlooked.

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“…Th e overall livelihood and food security situation in Karamoja in the past decades has been deeply aff ected by cattle raiding, climate change, disarmament and attempts to settle and 'modernize' pastoralists (Gray and Sundal 2017;Nakalembe, Dempewolf and Justice 2017;Hopwood, Porter and Saum 2018;Stites 2020;Abrahams 2021). Th e artisanal mining practices and brokerage we describe take place in communities that have been and are in serious livelihood crises because pastoralism is not respected and supported by authorities but considered 'backwards' and less valuable than agriculture, even though the ecosystem is more fi t for pastoralism Little 2021).…”

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THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

2023

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Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.

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Land is now the biggest gun: climate change and conflict in Karamoja, Uganda

Cited by 17 publications

References 73 publications

Climate change and coastal resiliency of Suva, Fiji: a holistic approach for measuring climate risk using the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI)

Climate change and coastal resiliency of Suva, Fiji: a holistic approach for measuring climate risk using the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI)

Lessons in a bottle: The outsized impacts of soda in development practice

THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

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