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Pastoralist areas of Ethiopia continued to be afflicted by the scourge of conflicts, drought and famine. Conflicts in this area are often linked to conflict over scare resources and new boundaries limiting their movements. Conflicts between pastoralists in southern oromia are not a new phenomena, it has existed in different forms for centuries. However, these conflicts have intensified and changed over the last decade due to a range of factors. There is a long history of conflict among various pastoral groups, which raised sections of clans, tribes and ethnic groups against each other. Today, internal border are creating more challenges for pastoralist communities than international challenges. Cattle raiding and counter raiding in which people are deliberately killed are among the main feature of pastoralist including pastoralist areas of Borana and Guji zone. Pastoralism is a cultural and economic system in communities founded on livestock rearing as the primary economic activity. It incorporates and defines social structure, resource management, productivity, trade and social welfare mechanisms. The majority of the world�s pastoral community lives in the horn of Africa. The pastoralist livelihoods require both extensive use of land and freedom of movement. For pastoralists mobility is a necessary response to climate and vegetation variations.