%0 Journal Article
%T Governing violence in the pastoralist space: Karrayu and state notions of cattle raiding in the Ethiopian Awash Valley
%A Mulugeta
%A Alemmaya
%A Hagmann
%A Tobias
%J Afrika Focus
%D 2008
%I Gents Afrika Platform, Afrika Brug
%X Based on recent fieldwork this article examines how cattle raids involving Karrayu pastoralists are governed by the local administration and customary authorities in Ethiopia¡¯s Upper and Middle Awash Valley. It argues that the regulation of violent conflicts in areas marked by weak state presence and legitimacy must be understood as a function of multiple social orders, actors and norms. The authors draw attention to the evolving rationales of inter-ethnic cattle raids, highlight the incomplete nature of state expansion into the Karrayu pastoralist space, and scrutinize the ambiguities of government and community peacemaking.
%K cattle raiding
%K pastoralism
%K conflict resolution
%K governance
%K Karrayu
%K Ethiopia
%U http://www.gap.ugent.be/africafocus/pdf/08-21-2-Mulugeta.pdf