Land Conflict
We recently accompanied one of our partners to a negotiation meeting between two families over a disputed piece of land. The dispute had lasted 30-some years. (The meeting had been scheduled by the Peace Promoters described in the previous blog entry.) The route to the meeting was very interesting, in that it seemed that whenever there was a turn to be made, we always took the “road less traveled” until we were driving along a footpath. We first met one of the parties to the dispute in their home and then walked through the bush to a neutral tree where the meeting was to be held. We waited several hours until the other party appeared and the local government official arrived. There was talk, some complaints, some tension, and finally an agreement to meet again.
This meeting was not entirely successful but we were interested in the process and in the hope for settlement in the near future.
September 27th, 2011 at 3:06 am
Peace making is often long, hard work. More power to Peace Promoters.