Land Boundary Dispute and Creative Peace Building Mechanism: A Literature Exploration

Abstract

This study aims at conduction a literature review on land boundary dispute and creative peace-building mechanism. The study was guided to utilizing explorative research design and methods to review conceptual, theoretical and empirical perspectives on land boundary disputes and creative peace-building mechanism. The reviews revealed that leading perspectives are policy-centric, but our study conceptualizes land boundary disputes is not perceived as a theoretical ownership of land that arise from unclear or overlapping property lines, conflicting property deeds, encroachments, or misinterpretations of historical documents pertaining to land. The explorative literature review of the study also concludes that creative peace-building has not been  creative peace building is a complex and ongoing process that addresses the deep-rooted causes of conflict and strives to create societies where people can coexist peacefully. On this basis, it is recommended that perceptions on land boundary dispute and creative peace-building strategic conflict management mechanism should be perceived within a unique social construct and context.