Addressing Mining Sector Conflicts in Ghana

of conflicts between mining communities and mining companies, mainly over issues of environmental pollution, competition over land use, unfulfilled promises, resettlement and compensation.

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The rise of 'Mashurugwi' machete gangs and violent conflicts …

Machete gang violence signify a class struggle over the control of resource rich mining areas. • A gold rush is a major trigger of mining conflicts. • Under Zimbabwe's post Mugabe government, the youths have been marginalised in favour of an emerging capitalist class with interest in gold mining. •

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Unemployment and Implications to Social and Political …

implications to social and political conflict. It is concerned with youth opinions regarding the causes of youth frustration and unrest, causes of unemployment, who and what youth regard as responsible for the problems they face, their aspirations, attitudes regarding social and political conflict in urban centres of Zimbabwe, youth

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The Impact of Poverty, Unemployment, Inequality, Corruption and Poor

The outcomes of the estimations showed that poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor governance were significant causes of Niger Delta militancy, Boko Haram terrorism and Fulani ...

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Measurement and prediction of land use conflict in an opencast mining area

Opencast coal mining can result in a large-scale land destruction. Due to the diversity of land use and the complexity of land use structure, there are severe conflicts in the production-living-ecology space in large-scale opencast coal mine areas, resulting in various degrees of impacts on land use, human settlements and ecological stability of …

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All That Glitters is Not Gold: Turmoil in …

The Mnangagwa government can take a number of steps to tamp down violence in gold mining areas. It should revise the country's Mines and Minerals Act to give artisanal mining cooperatives legal …

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Conflicts between mining companies and communities: …

Our findings imply that, to prevent negative consequences and alleviate company-community conflicts, mining companies should address underlying structural …

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Perceptions of local communities regarding the impacts of mining …

Communities were identified based on the reported contribution of their provinces to the mining industry and the size of the workforce. Sampling of personnel was conducted in the local communities living in the vicinity of the targeted mining areas, including locations such as mining towns, townships, rural and informal settlements.

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'Conflict Minerals' initiatives in DR Congo: …

that this mineral wealth is not one of the root-causes of conflict, their trade does play a central role in funding and fuelling conflicts in the DRC, further weakening the already fragile government. ... The research team visited mining areas across the four eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema and (North) Katanga. The ...

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Youth unemployment in Nigeria: nature, causes and solutions

This study investigates the nature and causes of youth unemployment in Nigeria, with the aim of proffering evidence-based workable solutions as policy recommendation. Its contribution to the literature on youth unemployment is the joint examination of the nature and causes of youth unemployment, which gives a holistic …

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Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa's rural

The legacies of apartheid, including extreme poverty, high unemployment, poor education standards and a lack of basic services, are still very much alive in many mining areas (Mnwana and Capps, 2015), and were exacerbated by population influx to mining areas during the boom years, which overwhelmed social services, stoked ethnic …

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The Intersection of Economic Inequality and Political Conflict …

The findings of the research indicate that economic inequality significantly contributes to political conflict in Africa, and conflicts have adverse effects on the African economy.

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Causes of Conflict in Indonesia

Causes of Conflict in Indonesia . Sidney Jones ... there was substantial migration to these areas of Muslims from Sulawesi and elsewhere. As a result, the population balance shifted, but jobs that had traditionally …

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Youth Unemployment in Nigeria: Implications for Development …

causes of youth unemployment crisis in Nigeria, while Section 5 is devoted to the analysis of th e consequences of youth unemploym ent crisis in the country.

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Conflict analysis

2.2 Causes of conflict In order to understand a given context it is fundamental to identify potential and existing conflict causes, as well as possible factors contributing to peace. Conflict causes can be defined as those factors which contribute to people's grievances; and can be further described as:

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Mining-induced displacement and resettlement: The case of rutile mining

1. Introduction. Mining-induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR) can cause major social disruption and affect the socioeconomic condition of resettled persons, yet it is an inevitable outcome of incremental mineral exploitation (Kemp, Owen, & Collins, 2017; Owen & Kemp, 2015).Mining-induced displacement involves, mostly, the …

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Mining and Local Economies: Dilemma between …

Mining areas often experience a climate of social tension due to the potential trade-off between expected employment impact and concerns for environmental …

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13 Most Common Causes of Unemployment Rate in the …

We'll highlight the most common causes of unemployment in the country in the following sections, so make sure to read until the end to learn more. According to the video, the Philippines' unemployment rate has reached its highest level in over a decade, with 3.7 million people out of work in 2021.

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Unbridled illegal coal mining in Meghalaya despite court ban

Despite a ban on rat-hole mining of coal in Meghalaya by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2014, illegal coal continues to be extracted and moved across borders of Meghalaya. Illegal coal mining has not only been a nemesis to the environment but also a threat to human lives. LCW analysis of news reports shows that nearly 60 people either …

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Natural Resources, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution

diamond mining to fund their rebellions against their respective governments. Research has also indicated that wars appear to be lasting longer: the expected duration of conflict is now more than double that of conflicts that started prior to 1980.2 One possible explanation is that it is now much easier to sustain and

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Land Degradation: Causes, Impacts, and Interlinks with the …

In some cases, the land where mining activities have occurred can remain completely barren even after the mining has concluded. The Niger Delta region of Nigeria can be a perfect example of such land degradation because of mass extraction of fossil fuels following traditional practices from the pipelines (Uyigue and Agho 2007 ).

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(PDF) UNEMPLOYMENT AND FACTORS AFFECTING UNEMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING

PDF | On Aug 5, 2021, Ecem Turgut published UNEMPLOYMENT AND FACTORS AFFECTING UNEMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of …

Conflict may decrease or increase deforestation depending on the relationship between conflict and other causes of land use change, such as mining expansion or protected area establishment.

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Conflicts between mining companies and communities: …

This paper analyzes characteristics and cause of mining conflicts through descriptive analysis by employing two comparative cases and 162 conflicts between …

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Mine Operations in South Africa: Community and …

protests in the mining industries is becoming tremendously huge in a way that it endangers people's lives and the mining companies losing millions of rands. The communities in the mining areas, their benefits are shallow, Mine Operations in South Africa: Community and Employee Reactions . Sebonkile C. Thaba, Member, IAENG

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Frontiers | The Long Shadow of Job Loss: Britain's Older …

The striking feature of Figure 2 is the rise in the numbers out-of-work on incapacity-related benefits, these days Employment and Support Allowance or, as the changeover takes place, Universal Credit on the grounds of ill health or disability. The numbers on these benefits rose from around 750,000 to a plateau of more than 2.5 …

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The Impact of Youth Unemployment on the …

The unemployment rate was estimated at 13.8 per cent in 2020 of this number, the male unemployment rate was 11.9 per cent and that of females was higher at 16.4 per cent.

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Conflicts between mining companies and communities: …

Incompatible goals between stakeholders (e.g., preserving natural resources and historical property) and mining companies (e.g., increasing company revenues) often produce conflicts that are not easy to resolve in symbiotic ways (Banerjee et al., 2021).The ICMM notes that the primary causes (i.e., the triggers for protests or use of force) and the …

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LAND CONFLICTS IN GHANA, CAUSES, EFFECTS AND RESOLUTION …

A lot causes or event leading to land conflicts have been identified and analysed in this paper. Land conflicts in Ghana have directly and indirectly affected the country's economy and Gross ...

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Living with conflicts in Ghana's Prestea mining area: Is …

The dominant source of conflicts in Prestea is land use conflicts (75) representing 93.8% and the least source of conflicts is environmental pollution related …

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19.4: Causes of Unemployment around the World

The Natural Rate of Unemployment. Unemployment rates in European nations have typically been higher than in the United States. In 2020, before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. unemployment rate was 3.5%, compared with 8.5% in France, 10% in Italy, and 7.1% in Sweden.We can attribute the pattern of generally …

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One industry, different conflicts: A typology of mining …

To analyze the diversity of mining conflicts, this paper develops a multidimensional matrix typology based on the intersection of two core dimensions: the …

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CHAPTER 9 LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND MINES

of community involved in or affected by mining operations: • Occupational communities– s or families who derive all or most of their income from mining. • Residential …

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The struggle of unemployment: A South African perspective

What are the leading causes of unemployment in South Africa? The country's background and apartheid-induced inequality have created a legacy system of inequality. To date, black people in the country face an unemployment rate quadruple that of their white counterparts.

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Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries

origin areas and that other factors, such as amenity differences, are also important. Involuntary migration due to climate change, wars and conflicts is also becoming increasingly more frequent in developing countries. A surge of involuntary migration is expected in the Africa region due to

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Conflicts between mining companies and communities: …

The ICMM ( 2015) notes that the primary causes (i.e., the triggers for protests or use of force) and the underlying causes (i.e., the structural issues that reside at mining sites) …

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