Abegar Indigenous Conflict Resolution System: a Community Based Reconciliation

Beneyam Lake Yimer ()
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Beneyam Lake Yimer: Bahir Dar University

Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2022, vol. 35, issue 4, No 6, 579-590

Abstract: Abstract Reconciliation is inevitable for restoring harmony among a society and making peaceful interaction between those who are at variance. The main objective of this study is to investigate the Abegar indigenous conflict resolution system based on community reconciliation in Haberu Woreda, North Wollo. This study has employs a qualitative research design and descriptive nature. The study collected primary data from different informants by employing such qualitative data collection techniques as an interview, focus group discussions and observation to achieve the research objectives. Accordingly, the finding of the study revealed that Abegars indigenous conflict resolution system aims at the restoration of order and harmony of the community. The types of conflicts presented and resolved in the community are inter-personal, homicide, inter-group in nature which stemmed from abduction of girls and women, violation of social values, theft, conflict over claims of a girl, competition over ownership of land, and drunkenness. The findings further show that family reconciliation, blood reconciliation (dem maderk) and compensation performance are the major community reconciliation procedures (methods) of conflict management used by the studied community depending on the nature and types of conflicts. Moreover, the ritual ceremony has symbolic and practical significance to established trust between conflicting parties that their relationship is restored. Based on the above findings, a strategy has to be developed to protect, develop, promote and disseminate indigenous knowledge so that they can be easily accessible and utilized for the development of local communities were forwarded as recommendations.

Keywords: Conflict resolution; Indigenous; Reconciliation; Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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