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"Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives. Divided into three sections, the volume observes historical and current relations between mediation and the criminal justice system and provides anthropological perspectives and case studies to explore mediation and arbitration in international arenas. In this regard, the book provides an innovative perspective on mediation and new insights into conflict regulation"--

Series Editor's Preface iv. - Acknowledgments v. - Introduction vii. - LOGOLOGO. - Introductory Remarks about the Town 1. - Sabamba (Logologo) 2. - Manyatta Juu (Logologo) 17. - NAMAREI. - An Introduction to the Region 25. - Ong'eli: Lomurut 30. - Ong'eli: Goob Harugura 34. - Ong'eli: Goob llmongoi 38. - GOOB LENGIMA, HALIBALLADEN 45. - BOSNIA 57. - LORORA 73. - RENGUMO (LAISAMIS) 91. - LEPINDIRA 99. - APPENDIX . - A Sample Questionnaire 113. - Index 123. - References 125. - Selected Bibliography 126

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like 'backwardness' and 'primitiveness'.