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  • Victims as Security Threats

    Refugee Impact on Host State Security in Africa

    by Edward Mogire ...
    Series series Global Security in a Changing World
    The refugee phenomenon is a major force in international politics. This is more so in sub-Saharan Africa where refugees are major actors in the affairs of their home and host countries. But, are refugees just victims of insecurity or also major causes of insecurity? Mogire analyses how and why refugees, victims of insecurity caused by persecution and the many incessant conflicts which continue ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Security Governance in East Africa

    Pictures of Policing from the Ground

    by Kennedy Agade Mkutu, Edward Mogire, Doreen Alusa, Laura Wunder, Daniel Nygaard Madsen, Patrick Mutahi, Tom Ogwang, Emmanuel Lameck Mkilia, Venance Shillingi, Perry Stanislas0, Lusungu Mbilinyi1 ...
    This collection of cases from East Africa, contributed largely by locally-based authors, explores the increasing security governance phenomenon in the region: that is, the mix of state and non-state actors, including private entities, volunteer auxiliaries, homegrown vigilantes and gangs, and the relationship between police and communities. Local dynamics brought by globalization, liberalization, ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    by Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

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  • Condemned to Repeat?

    The Paradox of Humanitarian Action

    by Fiona Terry ...
    Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the ... Read more

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  • Fighting for Darfur

    Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide

    by Rebecca Hamilton, Mia Farrow ...
    Around the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can make a difference. When we failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, we promised to never let such a thing happen again. But nine years later, as news began to trickle out of killings in western Sudan, an area known as Darfur, the international ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Unsilenced

    Unmasking the United Nations’ Culture of Cover-Ups, Corruption and Impunity

    by Rasna Warah, Aicha Elbasri ...
    In a world experiencing increasing conflicts, terrorism and displacement, many people are wondering what the United Nations the organization established in 1945 to save future generations from the scourge of war should or could have done to prevent these disasters from escalating. UNsilenced shows that, in fact, the UN has remained a bystander in many of these conflicts and that peace-building ... Read more

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  • Humanitarian Intervention

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Côte d�Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. But what about Syria? Why have we observed the Syrian slaughter and done nothing? Is humanitarian intervention in crisis? Is the so-called ... Read more

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  • The Politics Of Humanity

    The Reality of Relief Aid

    by John Holmes ...
    John Holmes was the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs from 2007 until 2010. His work took him to some of the most troubled areas of the world: to Sri Lanka, Darfur, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among other places, and exposed him to the harsh realities of humanitarian aid.Frequently he found that the UN's humanitarian programmes in these hotspots were ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Sanctuaries

    Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid

    by Sarah Kenyon Lischer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises prompts the following questions: Under what ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Lord's Resistance Army

    Myth and Reality

    by Adam Branch, Andrew Mwenda, Kristof Titeca, Sverker Finnström, Mareike Schomerus, Christopher Blattman, Jeannie Annan, Ben Mergelsberg, Sandrine Perrot, Ronald R. Atkinson, Simon Simonse, Willemijn Verkoren, Gerd Junne, Matthew Brubacher ...
    The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa's most persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres and mutilations. Since the mid 1980s, it has abducted tens of thousands of people, including large numbers of children forced to train as fighters. The IC in 2005 issued warrants for Kony and his ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Foreign Intervention in Africa

    From the Cold War to the War on Terror

    by Elizabeth Schmidt ...
    Series Book 7 - New Approaches to African History
    Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the periods of state collapse and the 'global war on terror'. In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The USA, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and the former colonial ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Africa Uprising

    Popular Protest and Political Change

    by Adam Branch, Zachariah Mampilly ...
    Series series African Arguments
    From Egypt to South Africa, Nigeria to Ethiopia, a new force for political change is emerging across Africa: popular protest. Widespread urban uprisings by youth, the unemployed, trade unions, activists, writers, artists, and religious groups are challenging injustice and inequality. What is driving this new wave of protest? Is it the key to substantive political change?Drawing on interviews and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD