July 22, 2025 Report Open Access

Melaku Belay

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    <subfield code="a">&lt;p&gt;Unless conflict is managed properly, it results in political, social and economic destruction of&lt;br&gt;
human beings. The paper focuses on Assessing and documenting the Nature (Procedures), Roles&lt;br&gt;
and Challenges of Indigenous Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in Western Districts of South Wollo&lt;br&gt;
Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia. The data were collected from key informants, in-depth&lt;br&gt;
interview, focus group discussion, and document analysis. To this end, purposive and snowball&lt;br&gt;
sampling are used to select the participants. As a finding of the research shows, the main causes&lt;br&gt;
of the conflict in the study area are abduction, violation of social values (insult), theft, conflict&lt;br&gt;
over claims of a girl, competition over ownership of land, and extramarital relationship with&lt;br&gt;
married woman and unmarried girls, Fire of house/crops, inheritance especially when children&lt;br&gt;
are born from different family, being drunkard, intoxication, by blood inheritance or in revenge&lt;br&gt;
and so forth. In addition, the finding has also revealed existence of many local and community&lt;br&gt;
based customary practices and indigenous conflict resolution institutions. Ante(yzemed dagna),&lt;br&gt;
Abagar, Mesal, Amare Kuna, Motte, Abiwolod, Abamamed, Qire, Awuchachign, Shimigilina and&lt;br&gt;
so forth are well-known and formally recognized mediation and reconciliation mechanism to deal&lt;br&gt;
with range of conflicts from simple disputes to horrifying murder acts. Though these indigenous&lt;br&gt;
conflict resolution mechanisms are relevant to ensure social cohesion, there are many encountered&lt;br&gt;
problems, which undermine the visibility and operationalization indigenous conflict resolution&lt;br&gt;
mechanisms. As we obtain evidence from any kind of research tools, low implementation, little&lt;br&gt;
acceptance of the issue to woreda formal judicial appeal, no support from the government, load&lt;br&gt;
of tasks to council of elders even they engage in every bulky tasks, lack of bureau, lack of giving&lt;br&gt;
recognition and absence of security force that enforcement of the decision when conflict parties&lt;br&gt;
will be out of culture and religion based rules. Therefore, the study recommended that Religious&lt;br&gt;
leaders should teach and preach religious and cultural values of the community instead of&lt;br&gt;
following western culture, the community should formulate organized rules and regulation which&lt;br&gt;
are accepted by the majority, Government and policy makers should give attention to develop the&lt;br&gt;
framework of indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms and its relevance for the local community.&lt;/p&gt;</subfield>
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