Design Principles, Common Land, and Collective Violence in Africa

The conventional wisdom blames colonialism as the root cause of violence in Africa, but at the expense of analytical clarity about the context of collective violence over common land. This article uses qualitative data and Elinor Ostrom’s perspective on governing the commons to analyze collective vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) 2019-10-01
Series:International Journal of the Commons
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Online Access:https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/930