Bunia, 4-5 June 2014 – A workshop on land-related inter-communal conflict resolution was facilitated by the UN Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO) in Bunia, the administrative center of Ituri, Eastern Province attended by traditional leaders and other local officials.

Altogether 33 participants reflected on the means and ways to sustainably resolve disputes around collective breeding and the administrative demarcations between the different communities in Irumu, one of the five territories of the district of Ituri.

The aim of the workshop was to help traditional as well as political and administrative leaders acquire a better understanding of above issues with a view to averting risks of confrontations and violent conflicts between local communities on the one hand and, on the other, with the stock breeders. Participants made a situation analysis of collective stock breeding, disputed administrative demarcations and ensuing conflicts.

Recommendations were issued to the government and local authorities to avail official administrative cards, to restore state authority across the territory of Irumu, to ease administrative procedures for issuance of concessions and land titles for everyone to understand and avert crisis between farmers and stock breeders with reference to the Act on crisis resolution.

Amadou Maiga/MONUSCO