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This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors
in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and
security of African states. Each chapter tackles a unique angle on
violent organizations on the continent with the view of
highlighting the conditions that lead to the rise and
radicalization of these groups. The chapters further examine the
ways in which governments have responded to the challenge and the
national, regional and international strategies that they have
adopted as a result. Chapter contributors to this volume examine
the emergence of Islamist terrorists in Nigeria, Mali and Libya;
rebels in DR Congo, Central African Republic, Ethiopia and Rwanda;
and warlords and pirates in Somalia, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors
in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and
security of African states. Each chapter tackles a unique angle on
violent organizations on the continent with the view of
highlighting the conditions that lead to the rise and
radicalization of these groups. The chapters further examine the
ways in which governments have responded to the challenge and the
national, regional and international strategies that they have
adopted as a result. Chapter contributors to this volume examine
the emergence of Islamist terrorists in Nigeria, Mali and Libya;
rebels in DR Congo, Central African Republic, Ethiopia and Rwanda;
and warlords and pirates in Somalia, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
The end of the Cold War was to usher in an era of peace based on
flourishing democracies and free market economies worldwide.
Instead, new wars, including the war on terrorism, have threatened
international, regional, and individual security and sparked a
major refugee crisis. This volume of essays on international
humanitarian interventions focuses on what interests are promoted
through these interventions and how efforts to build liberal
democracies are carried out in failing states. Focusing on Africa,
the Middle East, and Europe, an international group of contributors
shows that best practices of protection and international
state-building have not been applied uniformly. Together the essays
provide a theoretical and empirical critique of global liberal
governance and, as they note challenges to regional and
international cooperation, they reveal that global liberal
governance may threaten fragile governments and endanger human
security at all levels.
The end of the Cold War was to usher in an era of peace based on
flourishing democracies and free market economies worldwide.
Instead, new wars, including the war on terrorism, have threatened
international, regional, and individual security and sparked a
major refugee crisis. This volume of essays on international
humanitarian interventions focuses on what interests are promoted
through these interventions and how efforts to build liberal
democracies are carried out in failing states. Focusing on Africa,
the Middle East, and Europe, an international group of contributors
shows that best practices of protection and international
state-building have not been applied uniformly. Together the essays
provide a theoretical and empirical critique of global liberal
governance and, as they note challenges to regional and
international cooperation, they reveal that global liberal
governance may threaten fragile governments and endanger human
security at all levels.
Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on
Changing Wave of Law Enforcement provides critical insights into
the trends and patterns of crime and insurgency in contemporary
African society. In Africa criminals and insurgents are becoming
more resourceful, smart, and connected, as criminal syndicates are
increasingly deploying modern technologies to commit crimes in ways
and manners that are profoundly daring, and on a transnational and
global scale. Meanwhile, the capacity of local, state, and security
forces to stem the tide of crimes and insurgencies is decimated by
dwindling resources on the part of the state due to official
corruption, down-sizing of public institutions and a fierce
competition for resources between security and other developmental
agencies. In this volume, the contributors, who are expert
academics in policing and security in Africa as well as security
practitioners, provide detailed explanations of the new wave of
crime, characterized by cyber insecurity, terror financing, the
proliferation of small arms and light weapons, and transnational
networking among criminal syndicates. The volume forensically
explores how these complex waves and emerging trends of criminality
and insurgency impact on the socio-economic and political
development of Africa. Editors, Usman A. Tar and Dawud Muhammad
Dawud highlight how these factors affect and shape policing and law
enforcement in an era of "smart crimes" and insurgency within the
continent.
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars
addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three
Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The
contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths
address the needs of the poor and the needy in their respective
societies, and reflect on the interrelatedness of such practices
among the three religions. They ask how the three traditions deal
with the distribution of wealth, in the recognition that not all
members of a given society have equal access to it, and in the
relationship of charity to the inheritance systems and family
structures. They reveal systemic patterns that are similar--norms,
virtue, theological validations, exclusionary rules, private
responsibility to society--issues that have implications for
intercultural and interfaith understanding. Conversely, the essays
inquire how the three faiths differ in their understanding of
poverty, wealth, and justifications for charity.
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars
addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three
Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The
contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths
address the needs of the poor and the needy in their respective
societies, and reflect on the interrelatedness of such practices
among the three religions. They ask how the three traditions deal
with the distribution of wealth, in the recognition that not all
members of a given society have equal access to it, and in the
relationship of charity to the inheritance systems and family
structures. They reveal systemic patterns that are similar--norms,
virtue, theological validations, exclusionary rules, private
responsibility to society--issues that have implications for
intercultural and interfaith understanding. Conversely, the essays
inquire how the three faiths differ in their understanding of
poverty, wealth, and justifications for charity.
This book presents critical perspectives on the impacts of
globalization in Africa with particular reference to the crisis of
development and governance, the crisis of peace and security, and
the environmental crisis. It explores both global and local factors
that exacerbate these crises, and seeks solutions to these
challenges. With a strong slant on African experience and
perspectives, the book reveals that globalization has presented
Africa with both challenges and opportunities for governance and
existence in an increasingly inter-connected planet.
This book critically explores the emerging architecture of regional
security in Africa with particular reference to counterterrorism
and counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region. In New
Architecture of Regional Security in Africa, the
contributors--scholars, policy-makers, and defense/security
practitioners from both within and outside Africa--examine the
evolution, dynamics, and working mechanisms for peace and security
or emerging regional security architecture for regional security in
the region. The volume will be essential reading for all academics,
scholars, and researchers in academia and NGOs with interests in
counterinsurgency and counterterrorism related issues in the Lake
Chad Basin region. Additionally, the volume will also be useful for
students of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, small wars,
terrorism and strategic studies, and defense and security studies.
It will also provide invaluable reference material for policy
practitioners working on the activities in the contemporary
operating environment within the Lake Chad Basin region. This book
offers innovative perspectives on the emerging architecture for
regional security in Africa, with a focus on how member states of
the Lake Chad Basin Commission are coping with the challenges of
terrorism and insurgency. Edited by Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala,
the volume is the first to critically document regional security in
the Lake Chad Basin.
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