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Environmental conflicts in the Bui Division stem from unequal resource distribution and conflicting claims across fluid boundaries. An examination using historical data, surveys, and interviews across 504 households and local institutions identified several distinct conflict categories. Farmer-grazer disputes proved the most common, followed by inter-tribal conflicts, broader land use disagreements, and human-wildlife encounters. These tensions concentrate in areas experiencing both resource scarcity and abundance, driven by overlapping claims and diverse land management practices. Resolving these endemic disputes requires multi-stakeholder and cross-sector interventions alongside the formal redrawing and clarification of land resource boundaries. Participatory collaboration helps safeguard community welfare while supporting ongoing resource exploitation activities.
Disputes over land and water resources can disrupt local communities, threaten livelihoods, and lead to persistent instability. By pinpointing the specific types of conflict and their geographical drivers, this work provides evidence that community leaders, local administrators, and policymakers need to manage competing land uses, reduce local friction, and protect community welfare.
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Environmental conflicts in the world are very ubiquitous and arise from incompatibilities over the use and control of land resources that portray deterministic propensities. These conflicts in Bui Division are linked to inequality in resource distribution and conflicting claims over fluid and fuzzy boundaries. The study aims to identify environmental resource conflicts triggers and plausible stakeholder mitigation options in Bui Division. Historical and survey research designs were used to obtain primary and secondary data. Semi-structured questionnaires and in-depth interviews were used to obtain information from 504 households and institutions from 10% of the population. This was complemented by secondary data sources from published and unpublished documents. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Findings revealed multiple environmental resource conflicts including inter-tribal (57.1%), land use (47.2%), farmer-grazer (66.7%) and human-wildlife (10.3%). These conflicts are concentrated in areas of resource scarcity and abundance. The causality factors depict an overlap of complex phenomenon of contest over resources and claims over fluid boundaries, amidst multiple land use practices. Multi-stakeholders/sectorial interventions and remaking of land resource boundaries are salient efforts to reversing the trends of endemic conflicts. This study posits that participatory collaboration efforts are commendable in holistically resolving conflicts, with commonplace signatures seen on the general welfare of communities valued and preserved through environmental resource exploitation activities.
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DOI: 10.63002/gres.306.1225
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