Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa
The conventional wisdom blames colonialism as the root cause of violence in Africa, but at the expense of analytical clarity about the context of collective violence over common land. This article uses qualitative data and Elinor Ostrom’s perspective on governing the commons to analyze collective vi...
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| description | The conventional wisdom blames colonialism as the root cause of violence in Africa, but at the expense of analytical clarity about the context of collective violence over common land. This article uses qualitative data and Elinor Ostrom’s perspective on governing the commons to analyze collective violence over common land in an African community. It finds that the absence of certain design principles strikes at the root of the violence in the African case. Exploring the less understood intricacies enriches analytical clarity about the conditions that lend themselves to sustaining the commons and gaining the compliance of generation after generation of resource users with property rights institutions for governing the commons. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-37801a3f52bf4f8fbb682c2bdc683fed2022-12-22T02:17:09ZengUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)International Journal of the Commons1875-02812019-10-0113210.5334/ijc.930437Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in AfricaOyebade Kunle Oyerinde0Clark Atlanta UniversityThe conventional wisdom blames colonialism as the root cause of violence in Africa, but at the expense of analytical clarity about the context of collective violence over common land. This article uses qualitative data and Elinor Ostrom’s perspective on governing the commons to analyze collective violence over common land in an African community. It finds that the absence of certain design principles strikes at the root of the violence in the African case. Exploring the less understood intricacies enriches analytical clarity about the conditions that lend themselves to sustaining the commons and gaining the compliance of generation after generation of resource users with property rights institutions for governing the commons.https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/930africacommon landdesign principlesproperty rightscommon violence |
| spellingShingle | Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa International Journal of the Commons africa common land design principles property rights common violence |
| title | Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa |
| title_full | Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa |
| title_short | Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa |
| title_sort | design principles common land and collective violence in africa |
| topic | africa common land design principles property rights common violence |
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