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SUMMARY:Why do rural people in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecol
 ogical explanation - Professor Tor Benjaminsen\, NMBU
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CONTACT:Valerio Donfrancesco
DESCRIPTION:‘Mali has been in a deep security crisis since 2012. To expl
 ain this crisis\, the dominant literature has focussed on global political
  economic developments and international jihadist thinking and organisatio
 n and links to national dynamics. As an alternative\, or addition\, to the
 se contributions I will in this presentation take a materialist political 
 ecology approach to explain the current situation. By focusing on the poli
 tics of land-use conflicts and and environmental governance\, I seek to ex
 plain peasant logics behind joining the various armed groups labelled ‘j
 ihadist’. In particular\, pastoralists support jihadist groups\, because
  of an anti-state\, anti-elite and pro-pastoral jihadist discourse\, becau
 se they have become increasingly fatigued and disgruntled by a predatory a
 nd corrupt state\, and because the development model imposed by the state 
 and international donors has not responded to pastoral priorities. Rent-se
 eking by government officials has been especially intense in relation to c
 onflicts over pastoral land\, environmental management and the fight again
 st desertification. This happened while the international community contin
 ued to praise Mali as a model of African democracy’.
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