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2038: Rick Razor's mark is seen all over the world, with his
innovative Razor Technology owned by the majority of the
population. Professor Mike Pilkington sees a disturbing video on
his RazorVision glasses and the world turns violently upside down.
As almost every human being is wiped out through murder and
suicide, Mike helps rebuild society, but his hunger for answers
drives him on a collision course with the chilling force behind the
apocalypse... 'The Malaise will keep you turning page after page,
racing to get to the ending, and all the while hoping the
technology giants of today don't throw us into his horror of
tomorrow.' David Beers, Best-selling author
A valuable collection of articles, which should be widely read.
DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE Studies on war and violence in Bosnia,
Somalia and other regions, their effect on ethnic minorities, and
the intervention of political and other agencies. The great
majority of today's wars take place within rather than between
states and are often explained and justified by participants as the
result of deep and ineradicable differences between "them" and
"us". The contributors tothis book, whose disciplinary backgrounds
include history, political science, international relations and
anthropology, explore the growing importance of such 'ethnic'
differences in a world that is also becoming more unified,
politically, economically and culturally. They discuss the causes
of internal war, the techniques used by nationalist politicians and
intellectuals to turn ethnicity into a powerful political resource,
the response of the UN and of non-governmental agencies to such
"complex" political emergencies as those in former Yugoslavia and
Somalia and the constitutional strategies that can be used to
acknowledge and accommodate ethnic diversity. Taken together, the
papers demonstrate that the relationship between ethnicity and war
is not a simple matter of cause and effect. Ethnic differences are
not given in nature, ethnicity does not arise suddenly
andspontaneously but only in specific historical circumstances and
it is unlikely to become a lethal force in human affairs except
through the deliberate calculation of political elites. DAVID
TURTON is Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, University of
Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: TOM GALLAGHER, STEFAN TROEBST, THOMAS
ZITELMANN, KLAUS JUERGEN GANTZEL, JAKOB ROESEL, HARRY GOULBOURNE,
IOAN LEWIS, MARK DUFFIELD.
One consequence of development has been that large numbers of
people have been displaced from their land - the editors provide an
analysis of such population displacements in Ethiopia in the
context of other causes of movement, such as drought and conflict.
Development worldwide has increasingly involved displacement.
Ethiopia is no exception; population displacement resulting from
development as well as conflict, drought and conservation has been
on the increase since the 1960s. Therecent history of conflict in
the Horn of Africa has led to large-scale population movements of
refugees, returnees, internally displaced groups and demobilized
soldiers. The context of drought and food insecurity in the
mid-1980s and again in the early 2000s added a further rationale
and impetus for organizing state-led resettlement programmes. This
book brings together for the first time studies of the different
types of development, conflict and drought induced displacement in
Ethiopia, and analyses the conceptual, methodological and
experiential similarities, overlaps and differences between these
various forms. ALULA PANKHURST is an independent researcher anda
member of the Forum for Social Studies; FRANCOIS PIGUET is a
lecturer on the masters course of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian
Action at the Geneva University Published in association with the
Centre Francais des Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE)
The aim of this book is to bring a much needed comparative
dimension to the discussion of Ethiopian federalism. Since 1991,
Ethiopia has gone further than any other country in using ethnicity
as the fundamental organizing principle of a federal system of
government. And yet this pioneering experiment in 'ethnic
federalism' has been largelyignored in the growing literature on
democratization and ethnicity in Africa and on the accommodation of
ethnic diversity in democratic states. Apart from giving close
examination to aspects of the Ethiopian case, the book asks why the
use of territorial decentralization to accommodate ethnic
differences has been generally unpopular in Africa, while it is
growing in popularity in the West. The book includes case studies
of Nigerian and Indian federalism and suggests how Ethiopia might
learn from both the failures and successes of these older
federations. In the light of these broader issues and cases, it
identifies the main challenges facing Ethiopia over the next few
years, as it struggles to bring political practice into line with
constitutional theory, and thereby achieve a genuinely federal
division of powers. North America: Ohio U Press; Ethiopia: Addis
Ababa U Press
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