Resource Alienation Militarisation and Development case Studies from East African Drylands

Abstract

The East African, Drylands Research Programme is a collaborative venture between the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), University of Bergen,Norway, and the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The programme involves researchers from Ethiopia, Norway, Sudan Tanzania and Uganda. Its major objective is to produce development-relevant information on East African drylands. Taking a broad view rather concentrating on the issue of crisis management, the programme focuses on the spatial and temporal dimensions of resource management. A number of workshops has been held dealing with the issue of human adaptation in East African drylands. This is the third of the proceedings published within the East African Drylands programme. The first one, Managing Scarcity: Human adaptation in East African Drylands (edited by Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed and Hassan A. Abdel Ati) was based on a workshop in Addis Ababa (24-26 August 1995),...