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This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.

The case study literature is ripe with examples of a positive association between inequality and civil war, but systematic country-level studies have largely failed to find a significant relationship. One reason for this discrepancy may be that large-N studies tend to ignore spatial variations in group welfare within countires, although civil wars often take place within limited areas. We address this gap in the literature by applying GIS operations to \"Demographic and Health Surveys\" to construct new disaggregated data on welfare and socioeconomic inequalities between and within subnational regions in 22 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. These measures are coupled with geographical dtat on the location of conflict zones for the period 1986-2004. We find that conflict onsets are more likely in regions with (1) low levels of education; (2) strong relative deprivation regarding household assets; (3) strong intraregional inequalities; and (4) combined presence of natural resources and relative deprivation.

This article briefly discusses the various factors that gave rise to tension in northern Ghana between Fulbe pastoralists coming in from Burkina Faso and the local Kassena farmers (who have livestock of their own). The Ghanaian government's decision in 1988–89 to expel the Fulbe resulted in more problems, not least the dilemma of how to patrol effectively the permeable borderland and the gradual introduction there of modern firearms. In consequence some argue that it is not the policies of conservation that are being called into question but the government's sovereignty. Cet article examine brièvement les facteurs á l’origine des tensions survenues dans le nord du Ghana entre pasteurs Fulbe venus du Burkina Faso et agriculteurs Kassena locaux (également propriétaires de bétail). La décision du gouvernement ghanéen d’expulser les Fulbe, en 1988 et 1989, engendra d’autres problèmes, á commencer par le dilemme entre une surveillance efficace de la région frontalière perméable par des patrouilles et l’introduction progressive d’armes á feu modernes dans cette région. Par conséquent, certains soutiennent que ce ne sont pas les politiques de protection qui sont mises en question mais la souveraineté du gouvernement.

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