Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Conflict and Peace Building: Experiences from East Africa

This essay examines the experiences of Indigenous Peoples in East Africa in respect to violations of their human rights and ensuing conflict. It examines the mechanisms used to address and resolve these conflicts at the local and regional levels. It further assesses the efficacy of these methods of conflict resolution in the face of other peace building possibilities that have been attempted in the region in addressing and resolving persistent conflict involving Indigenous Peoples

The Local, the ‘Indigenous’ and the Limits of Rethinking Peacebuilding

© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1882755Recent critical perspectives on peacebuilding have sought to shed light on experiences so far marginalized by mainstream approaches. In particular, critics have pushed peacebuilding towards radically different ways of thinking about governance, conflict and peace, by engaging with narratives, experiences and knowledge coming from societies perceived as not invested in modernity or liberalism, such as Indigenous communities. Whilst this may force theory to confront questions of human-centrism, colonial erasure, and structural violence, turning to Indigeneity without questioning the impact of liberal peace ‘thinking', might further elicit marginalization and appropriation, and simply ‘save’ liberal peacebuilding through the back door.Peer reviewe