Assessment of Local Resolution of Land Disputes in Two Pilot Areas: Kabushinge and Nyamugali Cells, Rwanda

摘要

This Assessment is an activity for the Rwanda Land Dispute Management Project (LDMP), a USAID-supported effort under the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation. ARD, Inc. is implementing the LDMP in partnership with the Rwanda Ministry of Natural Resources (MINIRENA), the Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD), the Center for Justice and Peace Building at Eastern Mennonite University (CJP), and the Rural Development Institute (RDI). The LDMP is based on the premise that disputes and conflict are an inherent and legitimate aspect of daily life. Rather than attempt a single definition of conflict and dispute, this Assessment identifies two broad categories of dispute and conflict as: (1) those that are necessary even critical to positive change, and (2) those that end in widespread, deadly violence. The overarching goal of the LDMP is to manage disputes and conflict under the first category, thereby preventing a transformation or escalation into the second category.