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Unravelling Reconciliation and Justice? Land and the Potential for Conflict in Namibia
Author(s) -
Pankursy Donna
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/0149-0508.00153
Subject(s) - ideology , settlement (finance) , human settlement , economic justice , government (linguistics) , set (abstract data type) , land use , key (lock) , political science , political economy , sociology , development economics , law , geography , politics , economics , ecology , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , finance , computer science , payment , biology , programming language
This article uses the case study of Namibia to illustrate three key aspects of the implementation of peace settlements in Africa. First it reveals the ways in which a complex issue such as land can become oversimplified. Second, it illustrates the way in which a set of inaccurate, ideologically driven views about land issues still holds sway over land policy in much of Africa. Third, itshows how prioritising reconciliation at the time of a peace settlement, at the cost of some form of redistributive or social justice, can continue to influence and constrain government policy choices for years afterwards.