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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.
In Conflict and Human Security Threats in Africa, South African
scholar Victor Ojakorotu unravels the dynamics of conflicts and
human security threats now affecting numerous African nations.
While some of these conflicts are local, others are national and
international. This current and highly engaging study captures
multiple cases of insecurity, presenting discussions of terrorism,
kidnapping, militia activities, human trafficking, political
violence, teenage pregnancy, civil war, and armed conflicts, as
well as strategies for their future management. Ojakorotu documents
a philosophical assessment of African politics as well as the place
of the "new" media in the politics of human security and the
development of an African worldview in the post-modern intellectual
arena. This book is a must-read for all students of African and
global politics, as well as policy makers and diplomats working
with Africa, which will soon be home to more than three billion
people and a center of global growth.
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