After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur

This article uses a unique database on 542 villages in southwestern Darfur to analyze patterns of land reallocation and population change that have emerged as a consequence of the recent conflict. The analysis demonstrates that a displacement from this region alone of more than 300,000 people from t...

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Main Author:	Olsson, Ola
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank 2013
Subjects:	civil war civilian population developing countries effective policies environmental stress ethnic cleansing ethnic groups land tenure meat migration mortality natural resource peace peacekeeping policy implications population change population changes post-conflict reconstruction refugees security situation
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13445

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spelling	okr-10986-134452021-04-23T14:03:08Z After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur Olsson, Ola civil war civilian population developing countries effective policies environmental stress ethnic cleansing ethnic groups land tenure meat migration mortality natural resource peace peacekeeping policy implications population change population changes post-conflict reconstruction refugees security situation This article uses a unique database on 542 villages in southwestern Darfur to analyze patterns of land reallocation and population change that have emerged as a consequence of the recent conflict. The analysis demonstrates that a displacement from this region alone of more than 300,000 people from three targeted African groups has occurred and that villages have been repopulated by Arab and other African groups. Almost a fourth of all villages have been squatted by newly settled populations. The probability of squatting is shown to be largest in peripheral areas with good access to surface water, where soils are of good quality, and where many households from targeted tribes previously lived. A key challenge for postconflict reconstruction will therefore be the restoration of rights to land. 2013-05-16T18:26:40Z 2013-05-16T18:26:40Z 2011-03-30 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X doi:10.1093/wber/lhq019 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13445 en_US World Bank Economic Review;24(3) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Journal Article Sudan
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description	This article uses a unique database on 542 villages in southwestern Darfur to analyze patterns of land reallocation and population change that have emerged as a consequence of the recent conflict. The analysis demonstrates that a displacement from this region alone of more than 300,000 people from three targeted African groups has occurred and that villages have been repopulated by Arab and other African groups. Almost a fourth of all villages have been squatted by newly settled populations. The probability of squatting is shown to be largest in peripheral areas with good access to surface water, where soils are of good quality, and where many households from targeted tribes previously lived. A key challenge for postconflict reconstruction will therefore be the restoration of rights to land.
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title	After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur
title_short	After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur
title_full	After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur
title_fullStr	After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur
title_full_unstemmed	After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur
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After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur

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