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• [Publication] Infrastructure for peace: conflict settlement betweenpastoralists and farmers in Kilosa-Tanzania

  Journal of Eastern African Studies

  • Infrastructure for Peace: Conflict Settlement Between Pastoralists and Farmers in Kilosa/Tanzania
  • This article examines the conflict dynamics between Parakuyopastoralists and Kaguru and Saguru farmers in Kilosa, Tanzania. It focuses on the socioeconomic transformation generated by the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), which began in 2018 and traverses Parakuyo pastoral land. Against the background of the so-called Kilosa killings of the year 2000, when Parakuyo pastoralists murdered 38 farmers, this article investigates how the SGR has affected relationships betw...

• [Publication] Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Tanzania: Reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Cong...

  • Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Tanzania: Reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Congolese and Burundian refugees in Dar es Salaam (TRAFIG working paper no. 8). Bonn: BICC.
  • This working paper investigates the livelihoods, trajectories, networks and self-generated opportunities of vulnerable migrants in refugee-like situations in Dar es Salaam. Its main purpose is to arrive at a deeper understanding of protracted displacement through a ‘figurational approach’, which stresses the networks and the interdependencies of urban refugees in Dar es Salaam, across Tanzania, and across national borders. Refugees’ social relations do not unfold in a vacuum but are...

• [Publication] Local water governance: Negotiating water access and resolving resource conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes (MICROCON R...

  • Local water governance: Negotiating water access and resolving resource conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes (MICROCON Research Working Paper 33).

• [Press] New TRAFIG publication \ Starting up and starting over: Refugee entrepreneurs in East Africa

  • A new policy brief, based on studies conducted by the EU Horizon 2020 research project TRAFIG in two refugee-hosting countries in Africa, Ethiopia and Tanzania, highlights the critical role that networks play in getting refugee businesses up and running.
  • Friday, 16 July 2021: “While the findings from Ethiopia and Tanzania highlight the important role of individual-level support, they also point to a potential role for donors, investors and NGOs in strengthening networks and providing start-up capital to get more refugee ventures off the ground, thereby lifting refugees out of protracted displacement”, the authors conclude. In particular, the central findings and policy implications of TRAFIG policy brief no. 4, “Starting up and starting over: How network...