I’ve come across an “International Handbook onTourism and Peace” that’s published by the Centre for Peace Research and Peace
Education of the Klagenfurt University in Austria in cooperation with the United
Nations World Tourism Organization. There’s a chapter in this handbook that deals with the conflict between the people of Loliondo and the government working in
the interest of the “investor” OBC, but unfortunately this chapter gets some
basic facts totally wrong presenting last year’s land grabbing attempt by the
Ministry for Natural Resources and Tourism led by the then Minister Khamis
Kagasheki as “entirely based on wisdom”! I sent an email - copied and pasted
below – to the writer of the chapter and to the two editors of the handbook.
This handbook was launched already in January this year with the support of the
Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth and the Ministry of European and
International Affairs of Austria. I’d kindly ask everyone reading this blog post
to if possible share it with anyone who has read the disinformation of the
handbook. I have so far only read the chapter about Loliondo and hope that the
rest is not in the same vein. (Though I wouldn’t know since I only have detailed
information about Loliondo…)
Email sent on Thursday 28th August
2014 22:47 “Misleading information in Handbook on Tourism and Peace”.
Dear Emmanuel,
Cordula and Werner (writer and editors),
