Human Security In Africa

Author : Jeremiah O. Asaka,Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000610109

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Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa by Jeremiah O. Asaka,Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo Pdf

This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies. Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as diverse as migration, housing, climate change, displacement, food security, aflatoxins, land rights, and peace and conflict resolution. In particular, the book showcases innovative original research from African scholars based on the continent and abroad, and together the contributors provide policy recommendations and set forth a human security research agenda for East Africa, which encompasses Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti. As well as being useful for policy makers and practitioners, this book will interest researchers across African Studies, Security Studies, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Global Governance, International Relations, and Human Geography. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429671579

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Religion and Human Security in Africa by Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira Pdf

Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security. While some individuals and groups seek to manipulate and control through the deployment of religion, religious belief is also a common facet of those working towards peace and reconciliation. Despite the strategic importance of religion to human security in Africa, there are few contemporary publications that explore this issue on an international scale. This volume redresses that imbalance by examining religion’s impact on human security across Africa. Written by an international team of contributors, this book looks in detail at the intersection of religion and security in a variety of African contexts. Case studies from a diverse set of countries including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Burkina Faso, and more, are used to illustrate wider trends across the continent. Acknowledging that religion can be used to incite violence as well as encourage peace, the chapters employ an interdisciplinary exploration of the ethics, sociology, and politics around these issues. This is much needed volume on religion’s capacity to effect human security. It will, therefore, be of significant interest to any scholar of religious studies, African studies, political science, the sociology of religion, and anthropology, as well as peace, conflict, and reconciliation studies.

Author : Jakkie Cilliers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1919913521

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Human Security in Africa by Jakkie Cilliers Pdf

Author : Caroline Thomas,Peter Wilkin
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555876994

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Globalization, Human Security, and the African Experience by Caroline Thomas,Peter Wilkin Pdf

Eleven contributions explore security from a human rather than a state perspective and illustrate this by drawing on case material from sub-Saharan Africa. They offer an alternative to the realist, state centered, militaristic, male-dominated terrain of orthodox security and strategic studies, and study such issues as feminist perspectives, justice, economic genocide in Rwanda, security in the new world order, and the erosion of the state and the decline of race. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Helen E. Purkitt
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781621969907

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African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century by Helen E. Purkitt Pdf

Author : Kelechi Johnmary Ani,Victor Ojakorotu,Kelvin Bribena
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811620362

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Political Economy of Resource, Human Security and Environmental Conflicts in Africa by Kelechi Johnmary Ani,Victor Ojakorotu,Kelvin Bribena Pdf

This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa. It recognizes the need for resources in Africa to be processed into finished goods in order to influence global market and redefine the pattern of trade relations with powerful countries of Asia, America and Europe in shaping the destiny and future of African countries. The achievement of this laudable objective is plagued by the security challenges which are directly or indirectly linked to resource-related conflicts rocking most of the resource endowed countries in the continent, thereby threatening global peace and security. To deal with this menace in the continent, it requires global co-operation and support of foreign governments, international organizations, international non-government organizations, governments of host countries and its citizens. The book presents the cases and experiences of countries that are endowed with resource, as well as have experienced different forms of human insecurity and have witnessed environmental conflicts in its analysis, which make the discourse interesting and quite educating.

Author : Louis A. Picard,Terry F. Buss,Taylor B. Seybolt,Macrina C. Lelei
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781482255430

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Sustainable Development and Human Security in Africa by Louis A. Picard,Terry F. Buss,Taylor B. Seybolt,Macrina C. Lelei Pdf

Many new development initiatives have been introduced in Africa over the past few decades. Each of these has been heralded as marking a new era in the continent‘s development. However, many of these initiatives have failed to produce sustained results due to numerous challenges, including, most importantly, the lack of good governance. The Africa P

Author : Solomon A. Dersso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132119244

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Promotion of Human Security in Africa by Solomon A. Dersso Pdf

In Africa, various conditions pose pervasive threats to human security. Addressing these threats and promoting human security therefore constitute formidable challenges. As the paradigmatic shift in the discourse on and practice of human security has led to a change in the normative emphasis from sovereignty and non-intervention to responsibility and international humanitarian and human rights norms, questions arise not only as to the relationship between human security and human rights but also as to the contribution of the human rights system in addressing human security threats and promoting human freedom. What tools does the African human rights system have at its disposal that can be used in the promotion of human security on the continent? What are the roles of the African Commission and the AHRC in this regard? What are the potentials and the challenges? How best can these human rights bodies be employed to optimise their contributions to addressing the pervasive human security threats and to promoting the well-being of individuals and communities on the continent? This monograph investigates these and similar issues, including the basic one of the interface between human rights and human security.

Author : Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351669566

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Access to Justice and Human Security by Sindiso Mnisi Weeks Pdf

For most people in rural South Africa, traditional justice mechanisms provide the only feasible means of accessing any form of justice. These mechanisms are popularly associated with restorative justice, reconciliation and harmony in rural communities. Yet, this ethnographic study grounded in the political economy of rural South Africa reveals how historical conditions and contemporary pressures have strained these mechanisms’ ability to deliver the high normative ideals with which they are notionally linked. In places such as Msinga access to justice is made especially precarious by the reality that human insecurity – a composite of physical, social and material insecurity – is high for both ordinary people and the authorities who staff local justice forums; cooperation is low between traditional justice mechanisms and the criminal and social justice mechanisms the state is meant to provide; and competition from purportedly more effective ‘twilight institutions’, like vigilante associations, is rife. Further contradictions are presented by profoundly gendered social relations premised on delicate social trust that is closely monitored by one’s community and enforced through self-help measures like witchcraft accusations in a context in which violence is, culturally and practically, a highly plausible strategy for dispute management. These contextual considerations compel us to ask what justice we can reasonably speak of access to in such an insecure context and what solutions are viable under such volatile human conditions? The book concludes with a vision for access to justice in rural South Africa that takes seriously ordinary people’s circumstances and traditional authorities’ lived experiences as documented in this detailed study. The author proposes a cooperative governance model that would maximise the resources and capacity of both traditional and state justice apparatus for delivering the legal and social justice – namely, peace and protection from violence as well as mitigation of poverty and destitution – that rural people genuinely need.

Author : A. Kumssa,J. Williams,J. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230119260

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Conflict and Human Security in Africa by A. Kumssa,J. Williams,J. Jones Pdf

This edited volume looks at human security and conflict in northern Kenya and nearby areas within Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Uganda. It spells out the precise meaning and nuances of human security in today's global economy and examines the causes and effects of conflict in the region within the context of human security.

Author : Jorge Nef,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780889368798

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Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability by Jorge Nef,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The global political economy of development and underdevelopment (Second Edition)

Author : Ademola Abass
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191637179

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Protecting Human Security in Africa by Ademola Abass Pdf

Protecting Human Security in Africa discusses some of the most potent threats to human security in Africa. It deals especially with those threats to the security of African people which are least understood or explored. In themes varying from corruption, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, food security, the devastation of internal displacement in Africa, the link between natural resources and human security, to the problems of forced labour, threats to women's security, and environmental security, the book examines the legal and policy challenges of protecting human security in Africa. This work also analyses the role of NGOs and the civil society in advocating human security issues in Africa. It considers the role of regional human rights mechanisms and judicial bodies, such as the African Commission for Human Rights and the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, in seeking to guarantee human security in Africa. Finally, with particular reference to the Somalia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Darfur crises, the book studies the role of African regional organizations, especially the African Union, in protecting the human security of Africans. Written by leading experts on its various themes, this is an indispensable book for all those seeking to learn more about the real challenges facing Africans and African organizations.

Author : Keith Muloongo,Roger Kibasomba,Jemima Njeri Kariri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131816584

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The Many Faces of Human Security by Keith Muloongo,Roger Kibasomba,Jemima Njeri Kariri Pdf

Author : Tatah Mentan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956792368

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Africa: Facing Human Security Challenges in the 21st Century by Tatah Mentan Pdf

Africas dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversityfrom conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and interconnected world, millions of people worldwide are affected by some form of human insecurity. Infectious and parasitic diseases annually kill millions. Internally displaced persons number millions, including 5 million in Sudan alone. In Zambia 1 million people in a population of 11 million are reported to be HIV-positive, a situation much worse in other countries. Potable water crisis looms almost everywhere. In this book Tatah Mentan points out the need to shift the focus away from a state-centric and military-strategic emphasis on security to an interdisciplinary and people-centric approach that embraces notions like global citizenship, empowerment and participation. The primary elements of economic, food, health, environment, personal, community and political security all comprise the broader understanding of human security in an intricately interconnected world.

Author : Richard Obinna Iroanya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319719887

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Human Trafficking and Security in Southern Africa by Richard Obinna Iroanya Pdf

This book investigates the links between human trafficking and national security in Southern Africa. Human trafficking violates borders, supports organised crime and corrupts border officials, and yet policymakers rarely view the persistence of human trafficking as a security issue. Adopting an expanded conceptualisation of security to encompass the individual as well as the state, Richard Obinna Iroanya lays the groundwork for understanding human trafficking as a security threat. He outlines the conditions and patterns of human trafficking globally before moving into detailed case studies of South Africa and Mozambique. Together, these case studies bring into focus the lives of the ‘hidden population’ in the region, with analysis and policy recommendations for combating a global phenomenon.