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Mauritania

Mauritania Peacebuilding Programme 2013-2023

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“Great steps were taken towards peaceful co-existence at a local level. ... just yesterday, people still in conflict became mediators for surrounding villages.”

- An independent evaluator

Background

In Mauritania, we supported two communities locked in a land dispute, helping them resolve it to mutual benefit. In 1989, nearly 100,000 Pulaar people were violently displaced from their homelands in the fertile Senegal River Valley. The land was given to Haratine people, ostensibly to help them out of modern day slavery. When the Pulaar returned, over 20 years later, returnees and Haratine both had a legitimate interest in the same land, with both acutely vulnerable to food shortages.

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