ABSTRACT
This chapter examines specific indigenous traditional1 practices of resolving inter-group or communal conflicts and restoring peace and peaceful co-existence among the pastoralists of East Africa, particularly the ‘Karamoja Cluster,’2 also known ‘Ateker’ cluster.3 It consisted of communities with close cultural and linguistic ties. Social organization, regulation of community rules and the exercise of power were organized through the age-set system.4 A combination of pastoral mobility, fluid frontiers, interethnic contacts, and extreme vulnerability of livestock to a host of catastrophes made the life of the pastoralists ‘inherently unstable,’5 and thus prone to conflicts.
