Unemployment The Cause Of Conflicts In Mining Areas

implications to social and political conflict. It is concerned with youth opinions regarding the causes of youth frustration and unrest, causes of unemployment, who and what youth regard as responsible for the problems they face, their aspirations, attitudes regarding social and political conflict in urban centres of Zimbabwe, youth

A look at the main causes of unemployment – including demand deficient, structural, frictional and real wage unemployment. Main causes of unemployment. 1. Frictional unemployment. This is unemployment caused by the time people take to move between jobs, e.g. graduates or people changing jobs.

of conflicts between mining communities and mining companies, mainly over issues of environmental pollution, competition over land use, unfulfilled promises, resettlement and compensation.

The study found: Long-term youth unemployment tends to be less common in rural than in urban areas, however, rural labour markets are characterised by low skilled and insecure employment. Demand ...

Today, although mining businesses only contribute 8% to the country's GDP, the mining businesses remain one of the most important employers, in term of its workforce [11].

To analyze the diversity of mining conflicts, this paper develops a multidimensional matrix typology based on the intersection of two core dimensions: the framing of claims and …

ethnic conflict, in Maluku Island and Poso in Central Sulawesi, to examine the underlying factors that triggered the initial conflicts. In addition, the case studies also provide useful information about the chronology of conflict within both areas in more detail and explain how the conflict evolved into large-scale violence. With regard to the

A study conducted by the Centre for African Elections Media Monitoring Index (CAEMMI) has identified unemployment as the strongest trigger of conflict across the extractive communities in the...

There is growing recognition of the link between land and armed conflict and more and more concern that land can be a cause or trigger for conflict, a critical factor causing its relapse, or a …

the causes of youth unemployment in Uganda has demonstrated that certain sections of the youth, especially those who are educated, tend to shun some low-level occupations with the hope of

A study conducted by the Centre for African Elections Media Monitoring Index (CAEMMI) has identified unemployment as the strongest trigger of conflict across the extractive communities …

Mining, conflicts and livelihood struggles in a dysfunctional policy environment: the case of Wassa West District, Ghana ... To have a better understanding of the problem, the main survey focused on local peoples' perceptions on unemployment: causes and effects; past and current efforts being made to arrest the situation; development partners ...

Incompatible goals between stakeholders (e.g., preserving natural resources and historical property) and mining companies (e.g., increasing company revenues) often produce conflicts that are not easy to resolve in symbiotic ways (Banerjee et al., 2021).The ICMM notes that the primary causes (i.e., the triggers for protests or use of force) and the underlying causes (i.e., the …

As the government encourages more people to join the artisanal mining trade and unemployment rages, farmers in Zimbabwe say they are increasingly battling the negative impacts of small-scale mining. While large commercial mines are regulated and have strategies to protect the local environment, small-scale miners often operate outside of ...

In order to curb the problem of unemployment, communities, employees and their unions have made various proposals ranging from the nationalisation of mines, the institution of state-owned mines, and the beneficiation of raw materials in South Africa before exporting finished products to other countries (Limpitlaw, 2011).However, many mining companies have …

Causes of Conflict in Indonesia . Sidney Jones ... there was substantial migration to these areas of Muslims from Sulawesi and elsewhere. As a result, the population balance shifted, but jobs that had traditionally been the preserve of the Christian elite started going to some of the newcomers who happened to be Muslim and it led to a situation ...

Our findings imply that, to prevent negative consequences and alleviate company-community conflicts, mining companies should address underlying structural causes and pursue informal approaches...

conflict is more prevalent in mining communities with predominantly primary occupations. This is further corroborated by his finding that predominantly rural mining communities reported higher incidence of conflict than urban mining communities. He also revealed that conflict tend to increase with youth unemployment in these communities.

This article examines the causes and impacts of land use conflicts between large-scale mines and community groups, and identifies a series of (land use) conflict resolution …

protests in the mining industries is becoming tremendously huge in a way that it endangers people's lives and the mining companies losing millions of rands. The communities in the mining areas, their benefits are shallow, Mine Operations in South Africa: Community and Employee Reactions . Sebonkile C. Thaba, Member, IAENG

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The World Wildlife Fund has highlighted that illegal mining is one of the major threats to biodiversity in the Amazon, where pristine areas are transformed into mining sites, leading to the decline of numerous species and the disruption of ecological processes.

30 Environmental rights violated by mining in Mapanzure area Right to a safe and sustainable environment The right of the people of Mapanzure to live in a healthy and sustainable environment has been violated by the mining companies operating in the area. Not only large scale mining companies have contributed to this problem, the small scale ...

Mining companies can cause or be affected by conflict, dramatically reducing the profitability of their operations, and negatively affecting the contribution of mineral wealth towards …

operations effectively and implement this Protocol). Another definition of armed conflicts is given by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) report which comprehensively measured armed conflicts as the death resulting from political violence, civil and communal conflicts, violence against civilians, rioting and protesting and

factors that cause political conflict are due to structural problems, namely regulatory policies, in this case, Government Regulation No. 78/2010 concerning Reclamation and Post-Mining. Political conflicts occur because of different interests or a belief that the aspirations of the parties to a conflict cannot be achieved simultaneously.

Some of these areas have become South Africa's new mining frontiers, with increased mining activity in many of the former 'homeland' areas, including coal and titanium mining in the former Zululand (now Kwa-Zulu Natal), titanium in the former Transkei (now Eastern Cape), and – the subject of this article – Platinum Group Metals (PGM ...

Mining has been poorly regulated in the country even in the remote areas. While government subsidize mineral production, few enact or enforce strict environmental regulations for mining operations.

MANAGEMENT OF MINING-RELATED CONFLICTS IN THE ASUTIFI NORTH DISTRICT, GHANA. ... unemployment etc., as a major cause of conflict in the district. It was realized that the success of maintaining a relatively ... conflicts have become more frequent in areas where extractive activities are in operation resulting in a confrontation between local ...

The social impacts of mining activities are varied. The impacts span through social indicators such as unemployment, population increase and migration, economic and business development, prostitution, crime, conflict, poverty issues, infrastructural development, and prices of goods and services; there is general acceptance in mining communities ...