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Figure 4.3 Framework Marble/Gypsum - Conflicts In southern Kenya (Kamba and Maasai).
ruled against a President Kibaki's decree to interfere in the appointment of key officials.
This option for justice was not available to the Maasai during the times of President
Kenyatta when he apparently made a secret deal with a Kamba politician over a shift
of a boundary, adding land to the Kamba territory without the Maasai knowing.
This historical dimension is as important as the recognition of which natural
resources are at stake, where these resources are located and or mined (which is
the geographical dimension), and whether other elements (jobs created through these
resources) play a role. Potential environmental problems, such as dangerous quarry
pits, air pollution, destruction of topsoils, and noise from blasts, among others, can be
identified. However, these are not the key issues at stake. The economic value of the
social subsystem is central in this conflict over natural resources. The scheme also helps
us to establish the geographical scale of the conflict, which in this case was situated
at local/regional and national levels. Finally, having disentangled all these players and
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