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granted titles—and will not grant titles until the matter is resolved. The district should
immediately develop a policy to be implemented in a timely and transparent fashion.
Finally, if it is true that much of the violence against local inhabitants during the war was
committed by other local residents, the end of war may lead to yet another round of social
struggles. These conflicts will be intensified, however, in a climate of tenure uncertainty,
where the government further challenges existing land rights by granting concessions to
nonlocal producers without the local denizens' participation or consent.