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Features:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1999th edition (31 March 1999)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0792356527
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0792356523
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 kg 40 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.27 x 23.39 cm
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the subject of an ongoing debate. The de­ bate has moved on from the earlier, but still popular, notions of ‘power struggles’, ‘class struggles’ and ‘ethnic conflicts’, to a perception of conflict as the product of intense group competition for resources. Where the state controls the distribu­ tion of resources, itself inevitably becomes party to conflicts whose bone of con­ tention is access to state power as the most efficient means of gaining access to resources. The resources in question are social (health, education, transportation, communication, recreation, etc. ) and material (land, water, housing, jobs, con­ tracts, licenses, permits, etc. ). In parts of the world, and especially in Africa, di­ minishing resources and authoritarian state rule exacerbate group competition leading to political confrontation. This is the line I have followed in analysing conflict in the Hom of Africa (Markakis, 1987, 1998). Mohamed Salih’s first contribution in this volume is to move the debate a step beyond this line, which can be criticized as unduly materialist. He does it by bringing culture into the realm of resources, not only as a resource in itself, but also as the agency that assigns natural resources their value. Culture thus becomes a contextual element in conflict over resources whose value is culturally deter­ mined.