https://jass.journal.fi/issue/feed 2024-12-30T13:11:06+02:00 Petra Granholm petra@peace.ax Open Journal Systems <p>The Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies (JASS) is a peer-reviewed, open access e-journal published by <a href="https://peace.ax/">the Åland Islands Peace Institute (ÅIPI)</a>. The journal addresses its overarching theme of peace and security from the perspectives of autonomy, demilitarisation, and minority protection.</p> https://jass.journal.fi/article/view/142991 2024-02-02T20:46:30+02:00 Shane Barter

<p>Increasingly the go-to option for managing separatism, territorial autonomy provides special self-government for territorially concentrated minorities. Rather than an institution in its own right, autonomy is often studied as a form of decentralization and federalism or an endpoint in peace processes. To aid in conceptual development and demonstrate varied applications, this paper analyzes the varied forms and uses of territorial autonomy. The best-known forms are democratic and post-conflict. Less understood are indigenous, authoritarian, and ‘nested’ autonomies. These types of territorial autonomy are approach by distinct scholarly subfields and feature varied causes, institutions, effects, and defects.</p>

2024-12-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Shane Barter https://jass.journal.fi/article/view/144600 2024-03-30T06:35:19+02:00 Clifford Collins Omondi Okwany Evelyne Atieno Owino

<p>This study examines the impact of informal arrangements between the Northern Rangeland Trust (NRT), a non-governmental organization, pastoral communities, and state actors in northern Kenya, focusing on Isiolo and Samburu counties. The cases in these counties highlight the contrasting impacts of NRT-led conservation interventions on natural resource management (NRM). The work draws on 56 in-depth interviews, 41 focus group discussions, repeated field observation, and transect walks conducted between 2018 and 2024 with key informants, including NRT representatives, government officials, civil society actors, and pastoral community members, triangulating findings with conservation literature and government documents. The analysis reveals that public-private partnerships (PPPs) involving NRT and government actors are characterized by secrecy, and their influence is primarily evident through their impacts. Conservation efforts, often justified under the guise of environmental protection, have increasingly relied on the privatization and legitimization of coercive force. This militarized approach exacerbates resource conflicts and perpetuates cycles of violence. The study, thus, underscores the need for greater transparency and accountability in conservation initiatives to balance resource management and community livelihoods effectively.</p>

2024-12-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Clifford Collins Omondi Okwany, Evelyne Atieno Owino