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Burundi: Land Rights & Repatriation — 2007

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In April 2007, Barefoot Workshops partnered with UNESCO to run a 2 week workshop to train Burundian youth from local community based organizations (CBOs) to produce a 25 minute documentary project on the subject of conflict resolution, specifically the issue of repatriated refugees as it relates to land rights and struggles for reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi families struggling to resettle after living in the wake of conflict and ethnic violence in refugee camps.

Families, both Hutu and Tutsi, are struggling to make a living in a country of more than 8 million people, packed into a country the size of Maryland, in which 90% of the population survive on subsistence farming alone. The influx of refugees into the country has exacerbated an already tense situation, with people fighting for small plots of land and, by extension, their own survival and that of their families. As a result, land reformation is one of the biggest dilemmas Burundians face. Approximately 439,000 people have been displaced because of internal conflict.