Africa S Peacemakers

Author : Adekaye Adebajo
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780329451

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Africa's Peacemakers by Adekaye Adebajo Pdf

As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose career was inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles promoted by fellow Nobel Peace laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Albert Luthuli; to influential figures in peacemaking such as Ralph Bunche, Anwar Sadat, Kofi Annan, and F.W. De Klerk; as well as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei, who have been variously involved in women's rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.

Author : Adekeye Adebajo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1350218227

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Africa's Peacemakers by Adekeye Adebajo Pdf

As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique and provocative collection of biographical essays provides insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, to influential figures in peacemaking, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.

Author : Kurt Shillinger
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781920196240

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Africa's Peacemaker? by Kurt Shillinger Pdf

South Africa has done much in the 15 years since the fall of apartheid to establish its leadership on the continent. It has been a constant architect of Africa's new peace and security architecture and an advocate of new diplomatic norms.

Author : Adekaye Adebajo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780329444

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Africa's Peacemakers by Adekaye Adebajo Pdf

As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose career was inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles promoted by fellow Nobel Peace laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Albert Luthuli; to influential figures in peacemaking such as Ralph Bunche, Anwar Sadat, Kofi Annan, and F.W. De Klerk; as well as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei, who have been variously involved in women's rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.

Author : Steven C.Y. Kuo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429679919

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Chinese Peace in Africa by Steven C.Y. Kuo Pdf

China’s emergence in Africa is the most significant development for the continent since at least the end of the Cold War. Of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, China is also the largest contributor in terms of troop numbers to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO). While China’s potential to be a force for change in Africa is undeniable, there are wildly varied and sometimes unrealistic expectations in both the West and Africa of China’s role in Africa. A more detailed and nuanced understanding of Chinese motivations in its African engagement is necessary, in order to work effectively with China for African peace, security and development. With Liberia, Darfur and South Sudan as case studies, Kuo comprehensively examines the "Chinese peace" and places it within the context of the liberal peace debate. He does so using primary sources translated from the original Chinese, as well as interviews conducted in Mandarin with Chinese policymakers, academics, diplomats as well as Chinese company managers and businessmen working in Liberia and South Sudan. He also traces and analyses the Chinese discourse of peace, from traditional Chinese political philosophy, through Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping to post-reform and the Xi Jinping era.

Author : Hendrik W. Van der Merwe
Publisher : Tafelberg
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112417360

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Peacemaking in South Africa by Hendrik W. Van der Merwe Pdf

A political memoir by an internationally known peacemaker. H W van der Merwe has been described in the media as 'the man who brings South Africa's enemies together'. Here he tells his own story, which is also largely the story of the South African 'miracle' negotiated settlement.

Author : Donald Eugene Miller
Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1931038384

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Seeking Peace in Africa by Donald Eugene Miller Pdf

Author : African Women and Peace Support Group
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060844985

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Liberian Women Peacemakers by African Women and Peace Support Group Pdf

Women are usually seen as victims of wars, as indeed they are. But they are also peacemakers, so that the riches of their land may be invested in their children's education and health services and in agriculture and industry. In this book, Liberian women and men who were caught in the civil war between 1989 and 2003, tell their own stories of assisting the afflicted, feeding the hungry, pleading with trigger-happy young soldiers to stop the killing, seeking to heal trauma, taking to the streets in protest, and storming peace conferences "to speak plainly and forcefully about the destruction of families, communities and the nation." This book celebrates them.

Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074244966

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South Africa's Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking in Africa by Roger Southall Pdf

This collection is a product of a research workshop conducted on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Foundation by the Democracy & Governance (D & G) Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Africa Institute of South Africa, which was held in December 2004.

Author : Adekeye Adebajo,Kudrat Virk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786723321

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Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Adekeye Adebajo,Kudrat Virk Pdf

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is little scholarship that focuses on South Africa as a regional hegemon. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of South Africa's post-Apartheid foreign policy. Over its 23 chapters - -and with contributions from established Africa, Western, Asian and American scholars, as well as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern of the country's foreign relations in impressive detail. The geographic and thematic coverage is extensive, including chapters on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa's foreign policy; peace-making; defence and security; bilateral relations in Southern, Central, West, Eastern and North Africa; bilateral relations with the US, China, Britain, France and Japan; the country's key external multilateral relations with the UN; the BRICS economic grouping; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organization (WTO). An essential resource for researchers, the book will be relevant to the fields of area studies, foreign policy, history, international relations, international law, security studies, political economy and development studies.

Author : Luigi Esposito,Vidya Jain
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527519190

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Connecting Contemporary African-Asian Peacemaking and Nonviolence by Luigi Esposito,Vidya Jain Pdf

This collection brings together accomplished and emerging scholars who are researching and working for grassroots social change throughout Africa and Asia. The essays within are sourced from a series of seminars held during the founding African Peace Research and Education Association Conference at the Economic Community of West African States Parliament in Abuja, Nigeria. The book draws strategic lines of connection between diverse peoples on the two most populous continents. Looking at contemporary Gandhian, Chinese, armed guerrilla, insurrectionist, state-supported, and civil resistance movements, each essay reviews recent attempts at peace-building, while also placing modern efforts in traditional, historic, indigenous contexts.

Author : Y. Tesfai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230110120

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Holy Warriors, Infidels, and Peacemakers in Africa by Y. Tesfai Pdf

Out of the many challenges facing Africa today, there is the tendency of some to manipulate religious and ethnic identities for private interests. The book examines how religion has given rise to these conditions in Africa, by weaving together issues of poverty, wealth, and violent conflicts.

Author : Ken Conca,Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 080187193X

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Environmental Peacemaking by Ken Conca,Geoffrey D. Dabelko Pdf

Eight contributions written by professors of political science, government, and politics as well as researchers and program directors for environmental change, energy, and security projects provide insight into the process of environmental peacemaking, based on their experiences in a variety of international regions. An initial chapter makes a case for the process; successive chapters address the Baltic, South Asia, the Aral Sea basin, southern Africa, the Caspian Sea, and the US-Mexican border. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : H. Cohen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349418234

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Intervening in Africa by H. Cohen Pdf

As the Cold War faded, Ambassador Hank Cohen, President George Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, engaged in aggressive diplomatic intervention in Africa's civil wars. In this revealing book Cohen tells how he and his Africa Bureau team operated in seven countries in crisis: Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan. He candidly characterizes key personalities and events and provides a treasure trove of lessons learned and basic principles for practitioners of conflict resolution within states.

Author : P. Toit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230509658

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South Africa's Brittle Peace by P. Toit Pdf

South Africa has succeeded in establishing a democracy, but has yet to eliminate public violence from society. This book takes up the issue of post-settlement violence and ways of consolidating the newly found democratic peace. The role of negotiated institutions such as the new police force, economic factors relevant to the anticipated 'peace dividend', external factors such as arms smuggling networks, popular responses to rising threats to physical safety, and symbolic factors in enhancing the capacity of the state to deal with this issue are examined.