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The study traces ethnic conflict to contingent state
society constellations usage of customary power.
Periodic violence has historically erupted due to
contradictory customary interpretations contending
for legitimacy. Much of the history of state statute
is characterised by volte-face, which is both a
cause and symptom of how political power is
structured between the traditional and the modern
political realms. Volte-face is recognised as
stemming from adversaries refuting the customary as
a product of historical practice. Consequently,
through renewed state codification, the customary
beomes reproduced, whilst uncertainty remains, due
to the legitimacy of its present practice demanding
the denial of itself being a product of the very
structures, that had previously imposed their own,
contrary will and position. As a political history,
the central role of tradition in state formation is
demonstrated, which is characterised by a strong
interdependence between the traditional and modern
domains, whose fundament also rests on the
reproduction of the two realms artificial
separation.
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Paul Stacey2008- PhD student at International Development Studies, Roskilde.Project concerns chieftaincy and decentralisation in northern Ghana. Cand mag. International Development Studies and History. Roskilde University, Denmark.Master of African Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
