Conclusion: Identity, Ownership, Belonging and Resource Contestation—Responding to the Crisis

The chapters in this volume, by authors from Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, have grappled with the coming together of differing knowledge systems, and consequently governance and conflict resolution systems, in a highly contested context. The Albertine area and other contexts discussed in this volume are concerned with resource contestation, but more critically, as a consequence of this, contestations of identity, ownership and belonging. Contributors of this volume succinctly bring out the major forces that have been responsible for resource contestations and conflicts in this region and in the process have offered some insights into the ways in which these contestations might be peacefully resolved.