A Shift In Focus Putting The Interests Of Somali People First

Author : Ellie Kemp
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Humanitarian assistance
ISBN : 9781780770611

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A Shift in Focus : Putting the interests of Somali people first by Ellie Kemp Pdf

More than six months after the UN declared a famine, Somalia is still in the throes of its worst humanitarian crisis in decades, with 325,000 children suffering acute malnutrition and 31 per cent of the population estimated to be in crisis. A large scale-up of the international response from July 2011, combined with the efforts of Somali communities and civil society, saved many lives. But access to those in need has deteriorated due to expulsions of aid agencies and also to intensified, internationally backed military operations. Responsibility for this situation lies first and foremost in Somalia, where warring factions are accused of impeding and diverting aid flows, but the international community has also been at fault. Policies focused more on international security concerns than on the needs, interests and wishes of the Somali people have inadvertently fuelled both the conflict and the humanitarian crisis. In February 2012, key governments and institutions from the region and the wider Islamic and Western world will meet in London to chart a way forward. They must seize this opportunity to refocus on the Somali people that past policies have failed, developing more coherent strategies to ensure that aid and protection reach those who need it, addressing the root causes of the protracted conflict and chronic vulnerability in the country, while developing coherent strategies to ensure humanitarian aid reaches those who need it.

Author : Idil Osman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319577920

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Media, Diaspora and the Somali Conflict by Idil Osman Pdf

This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities. Media, Diaspora and Conflict demonstrates a previously overlooked complexity in diasporic media by using the Somali conflict as a case study to indicate how the media explores conflict in respective homelands, in addition to revealing its participatory role in transnationalising conflicts. By illustrating the familiar narratives associated with diasporic media and utilising a combination of Somali websites and television, focus groups with diaspora community members and interviews with journalists and producers, the potentials and restrictions of diasporic media and how it relates to homelands in conflict are explored.

Author : George A. MacLean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351161503

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Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia by George A. MacLean Pdf

Some of Bill Clinton's most basic foreign policy elements - democratic peace, the post-Cold War peace dividend, geopolitics and state-society relations - are epitomized in the US-Russian Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Purchase Agreement. It was one of the most remarkable initiatives of Clinton's presidency, but oddly one of the most obscure that still continues under George W. Bush. This agreement illustrates how successfully the US and Russia could work together to reduce global nuclear fears but also how a series of decisions pitted global designs over American domestic interests. Illustrating one of the most compelling decisions Clinton made as President, this remarkable book elucidates the theory of democratic peace and demonstrates a new and more advanced nuclear restraint regime, from reduction to elimination. The story behind Clinton's decision has repercussions for our understanding of arms control, foreign policy decision making and US-Russian relations. This is a book about the intersection of levels of analysis, international security concerns and domestic political economy, and as such is ideal as a supplementary text for advanced courses in security and foreign policy.

Author : Melvin E. Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576077627

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Colonialism [3 volumes] by Melvin E. Page Pdf

The most exhaustive reference work available on this critical subject in world history, focusing on the politics, economy, culture, and society of both colonizers and colonized. "The history of the last 500 years is the history of imperialism," writes editor Melvin Page. In the Americas, as a result of imperialist conquest, disease, famine, and war nearly wiped out a population estimated in the tens of millions. Africa was devastated by the slave trade, an integral part of imperialism from the 1400s to the 1800s. In Asia, even though native populations survived, native political institutions were destroyed. Imperialism also forged the two most important ideologies of the last five centuries—racialism and modern nationalism. In more than 600 essays presented in this three-volume encyclopedia, Page and other leading scholars—historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists—analyze the origins of imperialism, the many forms it took, and its impact worldwide. They also explore imperialism's bitter legacy: the gross inequities of global wealth and power that divide the former conquerors—primarily Europe, the United States, and Japan—from the people they conquered.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822038357026

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Understanding the Homeland Threat Landscape by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security Pdf

Author : Janet Napolitano
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781437981995

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Understanding the Homeland Threat Landscape -- Considerations for the 112th Congress by Janet Napolitano Pdf

Testimony of Janet Napolitano, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), about the changing terrorist threat that the United States faces, and how DHS is responding. Topics include: (1) The Response to a Changing Threat; (2) Countering Violent Extremism; (3) Supporting Law Enforcement with the Information and Resources They Need: Joint Terrorism Task Forces; Fusion Centers; Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative; "If You See Something, Say Something"; (4) Strengthening Vulnerable Sectors: Commercial Aviation; The Global Supply Chain; Surface Transportation; Cybersecurity; (5) Conclusion. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Author : Garth Massey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000313536

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Subsistence And Change by Garth Massey Pdf

Focusing on an agropastoral society of southcentral Somalia, this book explores the seeming incompatibility of subsistence agriculture and development goals. Based upon survey and ethnographic research carried out among the Rahanweyn, the study pays particular attention to economic activities, linking them with environmental factors as well as with history, culture, the division of labor and women's roles, family structure, demography, and herding and agriculture. How change can best be introduced into such a society is the central question of the book. The meaning of subsistence and its relationship to self-sufficiency and a survival threshold are examined within the context of an externally imposed market system. The implications of rapidly induced market involvement in a traditional society are looked at in light of data on a range of subsistence societies. The author argues for a redirection of development practices, making a case for the viability of a mixed agropastoral system that diverges little from the traditional subsistence patterns, and for peasant-centered development compatible with subsistence production, balancing national and international interests.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Krishna Prakashan Media
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8185842701

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International Realations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chandra Prakash
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0706999045

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International Relations, 2nd Edition by Chandra Prakash Pdf

This book is designed to meet the requirements of post-graduate students of political science and aspirants for higher services, the book will appeal to all those who are interested in international affairs.

Author : Mary-Jane Fox
Publisher : First Forum Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1626372047

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The Roots of Somali Political Culture by Mary-Jane Fox Pdf

¿Excellent.... a book that sheds new light on the political culture of Somaliland, Puntland, and Somalia.¿ ¿Christopher L. Daniels, Florida A&M University The fragmentation of the former Somali Democratic Republic into three distinctive entities, together with the events that have ensued since then, make for a complex political puzzle that raises a plethora of questions. M. J. Fox explores some of the most fundamental of those questions: Have the ¿three Somalias¿ of today always been as disparate as they are now? How deeply rooted are those differences? Why has southern Somalia remained steeped in violence while Somaliland and Puntland are relatively peaceful and stable? And does political culture have any role to play in contemporary Somali politics? As she traces the compelling influences of political culture over time, Fox provides a unique comparative analysis of Somaliland, Puntland, and Somalia in the twenty-first century. M. J. Fox is an independent scholar, formerly with the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

Author : Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135049423

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Superdiversity by Steven Vertovec Pdf

Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world. Migration plays a key role in these processes, bringing changes not just in social, cultural, religious, and linguistic phenomena, but also in the ways that these phenomena combine with others like gender, age, and legal status. The concept of superdiversity has been adopted by scholars across the social sciences in order to address a variety of forms, modes, and outcomes of diversification. Central to this field is the relationship between social categorization and social organization, including stratification and inequality. Increasingly complex categories of social “difference” have significant impacts across scales, from entire societies to individual identities. While diversification is often met with simplifying stereotypes, threat narratives, and expressions of antagonism, superdiversity encourages a perspective on difference as comprising multiple social processes, flexible collective meanings, and overlapping personal and group identities. A superdiversity approach encourages the re-evaluation and recognition of social categories as multidimensional, unfixed, and porous as opposed to views based on hardened, one-dimensional thinking about groups. Diversification and increasing social complexity are bound to continue, if not intensify, in light of climate change. This will have profound impacts on the nature of global migration, social relations, and inequalities. Superdiversity presents a convincing case for recognizing new social formations created by changing migration patterns and calls for a re-thinking of public policy and social scientific approaches to social difference. This introduction to the multidisciplinary concept of superdiversity will be of considerable interest to students and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005650598

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Editorials on File by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815775725

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State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror by Robert I. Rotberg Pdf

The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance. In the past, failure had a primarily humanitarian dimension, with fewer implications for peace and security. Now nation-states that fail, or may do so, pose dangers to themselves, to their neighbors, and to people around the globe: preventing their failure, and reviving those that do fail, has become a strategic as well as a moral imperative. State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror develops an innovative theory of state failure that classifies and categorizes states along a continuum from weak to failed to collapsed. By understanding the mechanisms and identifying the tell-tale indicators of state failure, it is possible to develop strategies to arrest the fatal slide from weakness to collapse. This state failure paradigm is illustrated through detailed case studies of states that have failed and collapsed (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Somalia), states that are dangerously weak (Colombia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan), and states that are weak but safe (Fiji, Haiti, Lebanon).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000090159785

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AF Press Clips by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abdi Ismail Samatar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253022370

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Africa's First Democrats by Abdi Ismail Samatar Pdf

Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country’s independence when Africa’s first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the postcolonial era—and scholars have assumed this as a standard feature of political leadership on the continent—Somalia had an authentic democratic leadership. Samatar’s political biography of Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen breaks the stereotype of brutal African tyranny. Samatar discusses the framing of democracy in Somalia following the years of control by fascist Italy, the formation of democratic organizations during the political struggle, and the establishment of democratic foundations in the new nation. Even though this early state of affairs did not last, these leaders left behind a strong democratic legacy that may provide a model of good governance for the rest of the continent.