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Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability and
urbanization have led to the rapid spread of private security
providers. While these PSPs have already had a significant impact
on African societies, their impact has so far received little in
the way of comprehensive analysis. Drawing on a wide range of
disciplinary approaches, and encompassing anthropology, sociology
and political science, Private Security in Africa offers unique
insight into the lives and experiences of security providers and
those affected by them, as well as into the fragile state context
which has allowed them to thrive. Featuring original empirical
research and case studies ranging from private policing in South
Africa to the recruitment of Sierra Leoneans for private security
work in Iraq, the book considers the full implications of PSPs for
security and the state, not only for Africa but for the world as a
whole.
As a policy field largely characterised by handbooks and manuals,
gender and Security Sector Reform (SSR) has been insufficiently
studied and analysed. Analytical discussion of what gendering SSR
means is quite rare, as is the study of the already gendered nature
of the security institutions that are the subject of intervention.
This policy dialogue unpacks aspects of the discourses and
practices regarding gender and SSR. It highlights limitations and
problems both in the conceptualisation of gender and its
incorporation into practical SSR work. The publication also
demonstrates how researchers and policymakers often have divergent
views of what gendering SSR means. Finally, it calls for closer and
more constructive dialogue between researchers and practitioners, a
dialogue which acknowledges the conditions and constraints in these
two spheres of work.
The international aid community has in their efforts to aid
post-conflict communities in Africa actively promoted projects
catering for the psycho-social healing of people traumatized during
wars and violent conflict. To a large degree these projects have
been established in the tradition of Western psychology. However a
more recent realization has been that in order to efficiently help
survivors of war it is necessary to adapt projects that enhance
"local" psycho-social healing.This policy report locates the
structures-that have local legitimacy-which are available to young
sexual abuse survivors in the Sierra Leone civil war (1991-2002).
To this end, the book discusses a healing complex that comprises a
number of overlapping actors, including herbalists, Zoe Mammies
(heads of the female secret societies), Mori-men (Muslim healers);
Karamokos (Muslim teachers), and Christian pastors.
Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability and
urbanization have led to the rapid spread of private security
providers. While these PSPs have already had a significant impact
on African societies, their impact has so far received little in
the way of comprehensive analysis. Drawing on a wide range of
disciplinary approaches, and encompassing anthropology, sociology
and political science, Private Security in Africa offers unique
insight into the lives and experiences of security providers and
those affected by them, as well as into the fragile state context
which has allowed them to thrive. Featuring original empirical
research and case studies ranging from private policing in South
Africa to the recruitment of Sierra Leoneans for private security
work in Iraq, the book considers the full implications of PSPs for
security and the state, not only for Africa but for the world as a
whole.
In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international
community both produces and demands from local partners a variety
of blueprints on how to reconstruct state and society. The aim is
to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a brief or
extended period of fragmentation and informalization caused by
armed conflict. In reality, both African economies and politics are
very much informal in character, with informal actors (including
so-called "Big Men") often using their positions in the formal
structure as a means to reach informal goals. Through a variety of
in-depth case studies - from DRC to Somali to Liberia among others
- this book shows how important informal political and economic
networks are in many of the continent's conflict areas. More than
this, it demonstrated that without a proper understanding of their
impacts in areas such as borderlands and in "narco-states" such as
Guinne-Bissau, attempts to "formalize" African states, particularly
those emerging from wars, will be in vain.
In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international
community both produces and demands from local partners a variety
of blueprints on how to reconstruct state and society. The aim is
to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a brief or
extended period of fragmentation and informalization caused by
armed conflict. In reality, both African economies and politics are
very much informal in character, with informal actors (including
so-called "Big Men") often using their positions in the formal
structure as a means to reach informal goals. Through a variety of
in-depth case studies - from DRC to Somali to Liberia among others
- this book shows how important informal political and economic
networks are in many of the continent's conflict areas. More than
this, it demonstrated that without a proper understanding of their
impacts in areas such as borderlands and in "narco-states" such as
Guinne-Bissau, attempts to "formalize" African states, particularly
those emerging from wars, will be in vain.
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