How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article examines land as the arena in which ethnicity and environment intersect in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, and traces how competing systems of land tenure lie at the root of the region’s conflict. The author contrasts jhum, the swidden agriculture practised by the ethnic minority communities and grounded in communal ownership, reciprocity and shared access, with the plough based, individually titled cultivation favoured
by state policy, and shows how the two entail incompatible concepts of ownership. The paper follows the successive…
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