Politics And Violence In Eastern Africa

Author : David M. Anderson,Øystein H. Rolandsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317539513

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Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa by David M. Anderson,Øystein H. Rolandsen Pdf

Over the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as the Cold War replaced colonialism. The articles gathered here illustrate how significant, widespread, and dramatic this violence was. In these years, violence was used as a principal instrument in the creation and consolidation of the authority of the state; and it was also regularly and readily utilised by those who wished to challenge state authority through insurrection and secession. Why was it that eastern Africa should have experienced such extensive and intensive violence in the fifty years before 1990? Was this resort to violence a consequence of imperial rule, the legacy of oppressive colonial domination under a coercive and non-representative state system? Did essential contingencies such as the Cold War provoke and promote the use of violence? Or, was it a choice made by Africans themselves and their leaders, a product of their own agency? This book focuses on these turbulent decades, exploring the principal conflicts in six key countries – Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Elections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115191152

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Political and Electoral Violence in East Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Marongwe, Ngonidzashe
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956763542

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Violence, Politics and Conflict Management in Africa by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Marongwe, Ngonidzashe Pdf

This volume critically interrogates, from different angles and dimensions, the resilience of conflict and violence into 21st century Africa. The demise of European colonial administration in Africa in the 1960s wielded fervent hope for enduring peace for the people of Africa. Regrettably, conflict alongside violence in all its dimensions – physical, religious, political, psychological and structural – remain unabated and occupy central stage in contemporary Africa. The resilience of conflict and violence on the continental scene invokes unsettling memories of the past while negatively influencing the present and future of crafting inclusive citizenship and statehood. he book provides fresh insightful ethnographic and intellectual material for rethinking violence and conflict, and for fostering long-lasting peace and political justice on the continent and beyond. With its penetrating focus on conflict and associated trajectories of violence in Africa, the book is an inestimable asset for conflict management practitioners, political scientists, historians, civil society activists and leaders in economics and politics as well as all those interested in the affairs of Africa.

Author : Tsega Etefa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030105402

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The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa by Tsega Etefa Pdf

From Darfur to the Rwandan genocide, journalists, policymakers, and scholars have blamed armed conflicts in Africa on ancient hatreds or competition for resources. Here, Tsega Etefa compares three such cases—the Darfur conflict between Arabs and non-Arabs, the Gumuz and Oromo clashes in Western Oromia, and the Oromo-Pokomo conflict in the Tana Delta—in order to offer a fuller picture of how ethnic violence in Africa begins. Diverse communities in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya alike have long histories of peacefully sharing resources, intermarrying, and resolving disputes. As he argues, ethnic conflicts are fundamentally political conflicts, driven by non-inclusive political systems, the monopolization of state resources, and the manipulation of ethnicity for political gain, coupled with the lack of democratic mechanisms for redressing grievances.

Author : Aidan Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499347

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Politics and Violence in Burundi by Aidan Russell Pdf

Reveals the neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi through the political language of truth, citizenship and violence.

Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015008189626

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Violence and Thought by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui Pdf

Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199211883

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Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa by Richard J. Reid Pdf

Relates violent conflict through the 19th and 20th centuries in the region of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the Sudanese and Somali frontiers to ethnic, political, and religious conflict and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region.

Author : Andre du Toit,N.Chabani Manganyi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349210749

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Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa by Andre du Toit,N.Chabani Manganyi Pdf

This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s. The work of a group of social scientists and professionals, whose own work and thinking have been profoundly affected by the political crisis of that time, it provides an in-depth research and analysis as well as critical reflections on the difficult political and theoretical issues raised by political violence and the struggle in South Africa.

Author : David M. Anderson,Øystein H. Rolandsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317539520

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Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa by David M. Anderson,Øystein H. Rolandsen Pdf

Over the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as the Cold War replaced colonialism. The articles gathered here illustrate how significant, widespread, and dramatic this violence was. In these years, violence was used as a principal instrument in the creation and consolidation of the authority of the state; and it was also regularly and readily utilised by those who wished to challenge state authority through insurrection and secession. Why was it that eastern Africa should have experienced such extensive and intensive violence in the fifty years before 1990? Was this resort to violence a consequence of imperial rule, the legacy of oppressive colonial domination under a coercive and non-representative state system? Did essential contingencies such as the Cold War provoke and promote the use of violence? Or, was it a choice made by Africans themselves and their leaders, a product of their own agency? This book focuses on these turbulent decades, exploring the principal conflicts in six key countries – Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Author : William Gutteridge,J.E. Spence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135244378

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Violence in Southern Africa by William Gutteridge,J.E. Spence Pdf

Violence in southern Africa has occurred in a variety of modes including ethnic confrontation, liberation struggles and cross-border aggression and crime. This volume examines the degree to which violence however defined has influenced political change across the region. The contributions include analyses of the ramifications of violent disorder in Angola and Mozambique, the impact on the political economy of both states and the prospects for lasting peace following the end of civil war.

Author : Zainab Ladan Mai-Bornu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030455255

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Political Violence and Oil in Africa by Zainab Ladan Mai-Bornu Pdf

The book argues that in order to better understand the undercurrents of the Niger Delta conflict, it is imperative to analyse the dynamics of choice in terms of the distinct courses of action taken by the Ogoni and Ijaw. Given the similar structural constraints, the author considers why the Ogoni adopted nonviolent resistance, and the Ijaw violent resistance. This book is divided into seven chapters starting with an introduction to oil and political violence in African conflicts, and includes a synoptic overview of four other resource-rich countries in Africa. Theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of conflict are then presented with the aim of situating the Niger Delta conflicts within the wider conflict literature. Chapter Three concentrates the discussion on the Nigerian Niger Delta, outlining the core issues at the centre of the contestations. The following three chapters offer an in-depth empirical analysis on the interaction between the narratives on nonviolence versus violence, the nature of leadership styles, and the organisation of the Ogoni and Ijaw movements along with a concluding chapter.

Author : B. Makulilo,Eugene Ntaganda
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781928331179

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Election Management Bodies in East Africa by B. Makulilo,Eugene Ntaganda Pdf

The management of elections is increasingly generating impassioned debate in these East African nations Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The bodies that manage and conduct elections are, therefore, coming under intense citizen and stakeholder scrutiny for the manner in which they are composed, how they organise and perform their mandates, and the outcomes they achieve. The effectiveness of electoral management bodies (EMBs) has largely been influenced by the impact of political violence on election management reforms in East Africa. Even in countries where EMBs are the products of reforms initiated in the aftermath of violent disputes over elections, they still face enormous challenges in dealing with electoral disputes and anticipating election-related crises. Although changes to constitutions and the laws in these countries have sought to make EMBs independent and, therefore, more inclined to deliver free, fair and credible elections, there are many issues that determine their impartiality and their ability to allow for the aggregation and free expression of the will of the people. These shortcomings negatively impact on democracy. This volume assembles case studies on the capacity of EMBs in these five East African countries to deliver democratic and transparent elections.

Author : Kathleen Klaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488501

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Political Violence in Kenya by Kathleen Klaus Pdf

An analysis of land and natural resource conflict as a source of political violence, focusing on election violence in Kenya.

Author : Chris Vaughan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847011114

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Darfur by Chris Vaughan Pdf

The first in-depth account of Darfur's history during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (from 1916).

Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745695617

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The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa by Alex de Waal Pdf

The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their goals. Drawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high-level peace talks, Alex de Waal provides a unique and compelling account of how these countries’ leaders run their governments, conduct their business, fight their wars and, occasionally, make peace. De Waal shows how leaders operate on a business model, securing funds for their ‘political budgets’ which they use to rent the provisional allegiances of army officers, militia commanders, tribal chiefs and party officials at the going rate. This political marketplace is eroding the institutions of government and reversing statebuildingÑand it is fuelled in large part by oil exports, aid funds and western military assistance for counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa is a sharp and disturbing book with profound implications for international relations, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa and beyond.