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Mitigating ethnic conflict in Africa

Reframing ethnic conflicts as political competitions for power and resources should shift how we think about mitigation strategies.

Rather than accepting identity conflict as an inevitable feature of Africa’s highly diverse ethnic landscape, a number of preventative policy interventions can be pursued.

This piece shall attempt to analyse key areas that can go a long way in mitigating ethnic conflict in Africa.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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