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Conflict and Displacement, Citizenship and Belonging: A Framework for Discussion

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Hovil sets out the theoretical framework for the book, contending that issues of inclusion and exclusion animate and sustain cycles of violence and displacement in the Great Lakes region. Conflict is more likely when collective identities are mobilised, politicised and ‘hardened’ by conflict entrepreneurs. By the same logic, expanding spaces for belonging is important for creating the conditions for sustainable peace. She explores, therefore, the interaction between legal and policy understandings of citizenship, and wider socio-anthropological notions of belonging in the context of conflict and forced migration in the Great Lakes.

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Hovil, L. (2016). Conflict and Displacement, Citizenship and Belonging: A Framework for Discussion. In: Refugees, Conflict and the Search for Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33563-6_2

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