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The denial of full citizenship rights to selected individuals and groups in Africa has triggered political violence. In many instances, these conflict...
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...Using the insights of political theory and philosophy, this Article identifies thr... protection by the state from poverty and violence. In this understanding, dignity demands that the g... inclination in Germany, France, or South Africa is to separate dignity from autonomy in order to e...
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ISBN: 9780896802513
TITLE: Violence, political culture & development in Africa.
AUTHOR: Ed. by Preben Kaarsholm.
PUBLISHER: Ohio University Press
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I have seen some instances of poverty that are demeaning in our country," [Desmond Tutu] said. "And I have warned, and I am not the only one who has, that we are sitting on a powder keg. It is the obligation of all of us to be trying to do something about it.
The recent statements of Tutu and de [FW de Klerk], who are both Nobel peace laureates, comes at the same time that a previously classified document detailing white South Africa's secret military activities in the early 1990's was released.
The Steyn report, compiled by former apartheid General Pierre Steyn, says that the military largely contributed to the destabilization of the country leading up to the end of apartheid, including the deaths of thousands of Black South Africans just before the country's first democratic electio...
... during de Klerk's rule who perpetuated political and racial violence in an attempt to thwart South ...
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... observer of historical events and political developments related to the establishment of the S... in the current distrust and political violence that have become so common in the Middle East and North Africa today. . The social-science significance of this b...
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... meaning the absence of the use of direct violence, as its point of departure. (3) However, this disc..., ed., Islamism and Secularism in North Africa (Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1994), pp. 149-167. ....
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... of Third World Studies (ATWS) and African Studies and Research Forum (ASRF) female professio... (1) "Western Discourse and the Socio-Political Pathology of Ethnicity in Contemporary Africa," (33) (2) "Subjectivities of Violence and the Dilemmas of Transitional Governance," (4) ...
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LONDON, February 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Head of Middle East and North Africa Forecasting, Zaineb Al-Assam, and her team at Exclusive Analysis have rated the likelihood of the following game- changing scenarios taking place in the Middle East and North Africa in our risk brief for clients Middle East / North Africa Scenario Analysis: Civil Unrest and Political Stability. There are two variables for scenarios: where a country is likely to end up, and how it gets there. These Key Judgements suggest the balance of probabilities for each. They represent 'what-if' scenarios, rather than forecasts.
Algeria: We expect violent protests to be ruthlessly suppressed, leaving a military-dominated regime in charge. The transition would involve moderate violence and disruption. In the long-term ...
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... African nations which would achieve political independence in the space of a few years. The Duch... not only extreme greed and personal violence but delusions of grandeur unsurpassed by any other...
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... Peninsula and access to the Horn of Africa and Central Asia, make it a strategically attracti... that have supported, funded or politically backed global terrorist groups. The list includes ... was followed by massive protests and violence, creating much uncertainty; elections were delayed...