The political economy of conflict and peace: Interrogating chieftaincy and ethnic conflicts in northern Ghana

The political economy of conflict and peace: Interrogating chieftaincy and ethnic conflicts in northern Ghana

AI Braimah, CK Mbowura

This chapter elucidates the various armed and violent conflicts that characterize and stifle the development of northern Ghana. These conflicts have lingered over a century though armed confrontations have gradually waned and receded recently. The root of these armed conflicts is traceable to the colonial balkanization and amalgamation of ethnic groups and kingdoms into one whole for effective colonial management or administration. Postcolonial governments failed or did little to ?uproot? the seeds of conflict perpetuated by the colonialists. Armed conflicts in northern Ghana are both intraethnic and inter-ethnic with their associated cost to the region and the state at large. Pivotal to the litany of causes of these conflicts in northern Ghana are issues relating to chieftaincy, jurisdiction, and allodial land rights. Resolving these conflicts has so far been elusive. This chapter delineates the political economy of conflicts …

Nova Science Publishers, Inc

2018

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English