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Piracy as a result of IUU fishing: Challenging the causal link African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Sasha Jesperson, Rune Henriksen
ABSTRACT With declining global fish stocks, there is a growing literature on the negative impact of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. While undoubtedly damaging, there is increasing analysis on the wider impact of IUU fishing, without sufficient evidence to support causal claims. This is particularly evident in the links between IUU fishing and piracy. IUU fishing was blamed for the
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Human security: Countering harmful ideologies and dominant narratives African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Lisa Otto, Dries Velthuizen
Published in African Security Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2022)
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Peace agreements with no peace: A critical review of peace agreements in the Central African Republic African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Robert Kosho Ndiyun
ABSTRACT Societies faced with authoritarian rule or conflict usually adopt different paths to peace. The course adopted by each community to guarantee stability determines the extent to which the sustainability of the peace can be assured. Every attempt to pacify a society should aim to prevent a relapse to conflict or authoritarian rule while considering the damage caused and sorting out measures
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The Zimbabwe Peace and Reconciliation Commission: Towards an integrated national infrastructure for peace? African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa
ABSTRACT The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe is potentially a crucial architect of coordinated and integrated infrastructure for peace (I4P). But it is not without its critics and sceptics. The Commission is the institutional centrepiece of government’s post-conflict justice, peace, healing and reconciliation programme. It is mandated with developing national and sub-national
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Youth and the temporalities of non-violent struggles in Zimbabwe: #ThisFlag Movement African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Simbarashe Gukurume
ABSTRACT Youth in fragile and conflict-ridden spaces are often constructed as violent and restless subjects who dismember the social fabric of society. Yet, many young people are using non-violent tactics and strategies to articulate their grievances and frustrations with the state of their economies. Young people in such decaying economies live under precarious and uncertain existential conditions
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Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Aly Verjee
Published in African Security Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2022)
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Protest policing strategy and human rights: A study of End SARS protests in Nigeria African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Emma Etim, Otu Duke, Jacob Fatile, Augustine Ugar Akah
ABSTRACT In this study, we adopted the negotiation management model (NMM) and the elaborated social identity model (ESIM) to assess and match with global best practices the conduct of personnel of the Nigerian Police Force during the End SARS protest. We used the descriptive mixed-method research design to answer the research questions after taking stock of some achievements recorded by SARS and critical
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The political economy of soft power: South Africa’s neo-liberal order and multinational corporations’ attraction in Africa African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Oluwaseun Tella
ABSTRACT In recent times, the concept of soft power has emerged as one of the most important terms in international relations. It has been applied to various aspects of statecraft from democracy promotion to peace-making, cultural diplomacy, economic diplomacy, counter-terrorism and disaster management, to name but a few. However, there is a dearth of literature on the political economy of soft power
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Lies or half-truths? Boko Haram’s ideology from a social movement theory perspective African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Akali Omeni
ABSTRACT Using Social Movement Theory (SMT) as a methodological framework and explicitly employing the core SMT concepts of political opportunism and framing, this paper seeks to examine Boko Haram's use of discourse in activism. As a rarely employed research method within the Boko Haram literature, SMT holds explanatory power around the movement's approach to transforming motivation potential into
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Maritime security and the Western Indian Ocean’s militarisation dilemma African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Christian Bueger, Jan Stockbruegger
ABSTRACT Ten years after the last large scale piracy attacks in the Western Indian Ocean, other maritime crimes such as illicit fishing and maritime smuggling have emerged. The spill over of conflicts in Yemen and Mozambique and maritime grey-zone activities have also become major maritime security issues. Yet, perhaps the most worrying – though largely underappreciated – trend is the surge of naval
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A call for innovative security strategies in the face of failing governance African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Lisa Otto, Dries Velthuizen
(2022). A call for innovative security strategies in the face of failing governance. African Security Review: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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The liberation culture and missed opportunities for security sector reform in Zimbabwe: 1980–2018 African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Annie Barbara Chikwanha
ABSTRACT This article analyses the roles of key liberation war actors in shaping the new security regime in Zimbabwe. This is done through analysing the trajectory of the security sector reforms (SSR) and the missed opportunities for transformation since 1980. The post 1980 security establishment was dominated by the logistical posturing of the liberation war security structures. This allowed for the
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Evolution of Algerian influence in African Jihadist movements African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Sammie Wicks, Caleb Weiss
ABSTRACT Algerian leadership was once instrumental in organising and fomenting jihad in North Africa and the Sahel. Alongside leadership decapitations, counter-terrorism crackdowns, and a ‘Sahelian shift’ following the influx of Sahelian members, Algerian influence has since significantly waned. Today, Algerian influence is mainly seen in cautionary tales against extremism and infighting. In contrast
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The effect of military (un)professionalism on civil-military relations and security in Nigeria African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Sallek Yaks Musa, Lindy Heinecken
ABSTRACT The focus of this study is on the effect of military (un)professionalism on civil-military relations and citizens’ security in Nigeria. To sketch the context, the article provides a brief background on the nature of armed conflict, which necessitated the deployment of the military in internal operations. Following this is a brief description of the extent and nature of military abuse, which
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Security problems and afersata in Ethiopia: The case of Semen and Begemider Governorate-General (1941-1974) African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Ayele Tariku
ABSTRACT Academic literature gave less emphasis to the causes of insecurity of the society in Africa, and the role of the indigenous institutions to minimise the insecurity problems. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the sources of insecurity and the roles of the afersata (indigenous communal court) in solving insecurity problems in Ethiopia focusing on the Semen and Begemider Governorate
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Ethnic versus national identity in Ethiopia: Is ethnic identity growing and among whom? African Security Review Pub Date : 2022-01-10 John Ishiyama, Post Basnet
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine the growth of ethnopolitical divisions in Ethiopia. Using recently released Afrobarometer data and comparing current levels of ethnonational identity with previous data released in 2013, we find an erosion in support for a national Ethiopian identity, and rapidly growing ethnonational identities among Oromo and Tigrayan respondents, but not Amhara. This suggests
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Mozambique’s security challenges: Routinised response or broader approach? African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Albert K. Domson-Lindsay
ABSTRACT The ongoing security crisis in Mozambique reveals the limitations of the mainstream statist approach to security promotion. Whenever there is social conflict or unrest, state authorities instinctively and routinely rely on military means to deal with it. However, this approach disregards the root causes of the problem, which are often the internal social, political and economic triggers of
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Security the African way: From indigenous conflict resolution to state response African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Dries Velthuizen, Lisa Otto
(2021). Security the African way: From indigenous conflict resolution to state response. African Security Review: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 417-417.
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An investigation of security outcome convergence and the dynamics of their influencing factors in Africa African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-10-05 Charles Shaaba Saba
ABSTRACT This study explores the drivers of security outcome convergence for 51 African countries spanning the period from 2000 to 2018. Phillips and Sul convergence club and system generalised method of moments (SGMM) estimation techniques were applied. The main findings suggest security outcome convergence, and this implies that African countries are characterised by similar factors (economic, developmental
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Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa: In Search of Alternative Strategies African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Niguse Mandefero Alene
(2022). Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa: In Search of Alternative Strategies. African Security Review: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 115-119.
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The securitisation of COVID-19 in Africa: Socio-economic and political implications African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Hamdy A. Hassan
ABSTRACT The outbreak of COVID-19 has shifted from an urgent health issue to a major security threat requiring emergency measures that go beyond normal policies. Many African governments have exploited this pandemic as a deadly threat facing both the state and society to justify unprecedented precautionary measures that restrict people’s freedoms. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyse the current
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Gratuitous benefit for the ZANU-PF government? Securitisation of COVID-19 and authoritarian politics in Zimbabwe African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Tompson Makahamadze, Francis Sibanda
ABSTRACT This article examines how the securitisation of COVID-19 helped the ZANU-PF government to consolidate power. It uses data collected from various document sources such as news outlets, social media platforms, and websites. Additionally, the researchers conducted informal interviews with Zimbabweans through social networking platforms. The study found that the measures the government (securitising
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Africa’s security landscape of securitised-development and human rights issues African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Felix Kumah-Abiwu
ABSTRACT Africa’s security landscape has been experiencing securitised-development practices through counterterrorism activities from donor countries engaged in the ‘Global War on Terror’ (GWOT). While some African governments continue to ‘benefit’ from the securitised-development agenda, critiques argue that there are human rights concerns that are connected to the practice of securitised-development
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Securitisation initiatives and the lingering security challenges in Sub-Saharan Sahel region: An appraisal African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Stephen Osaherumwen Idahosa, Denis Andreevich Degterev, Solomon Ijeweimen Ikhidero
ABSTRACT Security in the Sahel region has traditionally been studied through a realist prism, emphasising military concerns and the pre-eminent influence of great powers in shaping local security concerns. The paper reviews the securitisation initiatives in Africa's Sahel. It specifically explores Buzan and Waever's ‘securitisation' framework to re-evaluate securitising discourse and the contemporary
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Extortionate policing and the futility of COVID-19 pandemic nationwide lockdown in Nigeria: Insights from the South East Zone African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Freedom Chukwudi Onuoha, Gerald Ekenedirichukwu Ezirim, Paul Ani Onuh
ABSTRACT The emergence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in November 2019 has nearly brought the world to a halt. Recording her first COVID-19 case on 27 February 2020, the Nigerian government’s default response to the pandemic was to lock down major parts of the country, among other measures. Despite the nationwide lockdown, inter-state travel continued unabated as many travellers bribed their way
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Covid-19 and the restrictive measures: The national security conundrum for Zimbabwe African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-09-03
ABSTRACT The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic at the onset of the year 2020 brought unprecedented suffering to humanity. Economic activities in virtually all nations across the globe were brought to a shuddering halt, with the third world suffering the worst effects on the economic front. The health security of nations across the globe was shaken, as nations came to terms with the surging health
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Protection through peacebuilding in South Sudan African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Timothy Donais, Ayiko Solomon
ABSTRACT Protecting civilians has been the primary raison d’être of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) since civil war erupted in late 2013. Since then, UN efforts to protect vulnerable civilians have focused on a handful of so-called protection of civilians (PoC) sites. While they have unquestionably saved lives, the PoC sites have also absorbed the lion’s share of mission resources, severely
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Micro-disarmament experiences in Africa: Learning from the Karamoja integrated disarmament and development programme, north- eastern Uganda African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-08-12
ABSTRACT Micro-disarmament, which refers to the removal of small arms and light weapons (SALW) from the civilian population, is one of the recent international policy frameworks through which the global challenge of illicit gun proliferation has been approached. Although Africa still grapples with this challenge, a number of successful micro-disarmament programmes have been implemented from which important
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The dividing line between human resilience and militarised state security African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-08-06
(2021). The dividing line between human resilience and militarised state security. African Security Review: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 137-138.
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Russo-African Relations and electoral democracy: Assessing the implications of Russia's renewed interest for Africa African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT After decades of diplomatic disengagement from Africa, Russia is making a strong bid to facilitate bilateral relations with more African states. Many analysts regard this as an attempt to project power and influence outside of Russia's immediate borders in Eastern Europe and to whittle down the West's influence in Africa. The deepening ties between Russia and African states have led to the
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Evolving patterns of insurgency in Southern and West Africa: Refocusing the Boko Haram lens on Mozambique African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Samuel Kehinde Okunade, Olumuyiwa Temitope Faluyi, Emmanuel Matambo
ABSTRACT Insurgency has gained prominence in Africa. It is usually associated with marginalisation, poverty, and inequality and often has religious links and bases. Insurgency frequently originates in communities situated along the borders of a country but soon spreads to neighbouring countries due to the poor response from the concerned state. The literature reveals that when state institutions ignore
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Uncovering the processes and ritual practices of indigenous conflict resolution in the shimgelina system African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Belay Asmare
ABSTRACT Despite the availability of numerous studies on the issue of indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms, the process and ritual practices have not been explored in detail. Thus, the objective of this study is to examine the process and ritual practices during conflict resolution by shimgelina. To achieve these objectives, the study involved fourteen purposely selected shimageles and five conflicting
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Implementation of the ECOWAS collective security framework: The role of multilateral cooperation in the Liberian crisis African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-07-13
ABSTRACT The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was founded exclusively to focus on economic integration. However, in 1976, the Nigerian government proposed the adoption of a non-aggression protocol to regulate issues of regional collective security. The proposal was accepted in principle and the secretariat was tasked to formulate policy prescriptions for adoption of the decision organs
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Reign of terror: A review of police brutality on Nigerian youth by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-07-12
ABSTRACT Few days after Nigeria attained the sexagenarian status on October 1, 2020, the country has once again become a subject of unusual discourse both home and abroad. This is due to the protests by disgruntled youths against the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad; a unit of the Nigeria Police Force, which has been accused of brutality, human rights violation, sexual abuse, torture, and
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Securing the African space: A collective response to threats under persisting constraints African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Dries Velthuizen,Lisa Otto
In this edition, as in others, we focus on some persisting trends that emphasise the gravity of security challenges in Africa, but also succeed in showcasing the successes of some security mechanisms that are causes of optimism and sources of good practices. The current security situation in Africa continues to be characterised by instability in some spaces with several threats to socio-economic development
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Rwanda's securitisation of genocide denial: A political mechanism for power or to combat ontological insecurity? African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Jonathan R. Beloff
ABSTRACT This article examines the concept of genocide denial as a security threat within the case study of Rwanda. Rwanda experienced the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi when an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were butchered by extremists within a one-hundred-day period. Since the ending the genocide the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) continues to dominate the post-genocide nation's
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Military expenditure, security outcome and industrialisation in Africa: Evidence from a panel data analysis African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Charles Shaaba Saba, Nicholas Ngepah
ABSTRACT This study examines the cause-and-effect relationship between military expenditure, security outcome and industrialisation for a panel of 35 African countries spanning from 1990 to 2015. We employed: (i) the Pairwise Dumitrescu-Hurlin panel causality test; and (ii) the newly developed panel VAR in generalised method of moment (GMM) estimation approach was applied to determine what magnitude
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Interrogating the nexus between irregular migration and insecurity along ‘ungoverned’ border spaces in West Africa African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Ernest Toochi Aniche, Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
ABSTRACT The ‘coloniality’, porosity, and ‘ungovernability’ of borders in West Africa, have engendered undocumented migration, in which most people engage to visit their kin and for economic reasons such as herding, farming, fishing, hunting, and trading. This occurs concurrently with human smuggling, human trafficking, gun-running, terrorism, and money laundering. The rise in these cross-border criminal
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Institutional failure in Burundi: Causes of conflict and insurgency beyond ethnicity African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Jetnor Kasmi, Mohsin Khan
ABSTRACT Ethnic and land conflicts have recently gained significance in peace and conflict resolution. It is imperative to understand both endogenous and exogenous factors and their relations towards the institutional, democratic, and state-building process to mediate the risks of class and land conflicts. This paper attempts to identify historical relations of land and class structure by analysing
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The rhetoric and reality of the AU peace operations in Darfur (Sudan): Is the ‘African Solution’ enough? African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Bewuketu Dires Gardachew
ABSTRACT This study explored whether the African Union’s peace operations driven by the ‘African solutions’ approach is enough or not. To bear evidence, this study uses the AU’s intervention in Darfur to interrogate the efficacy of the ‘African solutions’. The reason for selecting the case of Darfur is motivated due to the following two critical rationales. In the first place, this state has faced
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French involvement in the Malagasy crisis and during SADC’s mediation African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Katiana Sandra Ramsamy
ABSTRACT In March 2009, President Marc Ravalomanana of the Island of Madagascar was ousted during a coup d’état led by the Mayor of Antananarivo, Andry Rajoelina, and his supporters. After the coup, Ravalomanana and his family fled to South Africa where they remained in exile from 2009 to 2014. To restore constitutional order in Madagascar, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in July
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Gathering and processing complex conflict data for violence prevention policies and strategies African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Lisa Otto, Dries Velthuizen
(2021). Gathering and processing complex conflict data for violence prevention policies and strategies. African Security Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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The 1994 Rwandan genocide: Practising the Heidelberg conflict methodology African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-01-26 M. Bahadir Ileri
ABSTRACT Having suffered one of the worst genocides in recorded history, Rwanda today is a country still striving to maintain the equilibrium between the perpetrators and the survivors. After decades of tension between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority, during April to July 1994 an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 people were slaughtered in mass atrocities, with many more displaced from their homes
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Struck and killed in Nigerian Air Force’s campaigns: Assessment of airstrike locations, targets and impacts in internal security operations African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Samuel Oyewole
ABSTRACT The involvement of the air force in a series of Joint Task Force (JTF) arrangements, which were initiated to neutralise various security threats, accounted for a growing record of air campaigns in Nigeria. Although there is growing public attention for airpower in Nigeria, its operational relevance and associated concerns have received inadequate academic attention. Accordingly, the understanding
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Social media and national security in Zimbabwe: Embracing social media for national security and addressing social media threats African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Ishmael Mugari, Rudo Chisuvi
ABSTRACT The advent of the social media in the past decade has revolutionised communication, overshadowing the traditional ways of communication. Despite its convenience, social media is being used as a conduit for criminal activities. Notwithstanding its dark side, social media has also been utilised in enhancing national security. This study explores the various ways in which social media has been
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The ‘burden of expectation’ and political instability: A case for direct election of the President of Botswana African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Lawrence Ookeditse
ABSTRACT This article argues the fallout between Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama is demonstration of the need for the country to reform its political system to accommodate direct election of the president. This would lessen seeds for political instability in the future. The central argument in the paper is that the system of ‘automatic
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Effect of theatre for development as a communication intervention strategy on behavioural intentions towards painting, weaving and fashion and design among victims of conflict in Nigeria African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Nelson Torti Obasi, Chukwuemeka Vincent Okpara, Felicia Tochukwu Okpara, Vershima Joseph Itiav, Celestine Verlumun Gever
ABSTRACT Despite the ongoing conflict between farmers and herdsmen in Nigeria, researchers are yet to substantially focus attention on ways of empowering victims of the conflict through skills acquisition. This study attempts to fill this gap by assessing the effectiveness of theatre for development as a communication intervention strategy for positively influencing the perceptions, knowledge and behavioural
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Securing a future of uncertainty African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Lisa Otto, Dries Velthuizen
(2020). Securing a future of uncertainty. African Security Review: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 297-298.
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Beyond Ouagadougou: State-building and jihadism in Burkina Faso African Security Review Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Eeben Barlow, Bohumil Doboš, Martin Riegl
ABSTRACT The article evaluates the current worsening security situation in Burkina Faso and ties it to a lack of state-building in the country. Based on Tilly's approach to state-building, it, consequently, draws a set of recommendations aiming to strengthen the effectiveness of Burkinabe security forces as a primary step to stop the current wave of violence and establish more stable state institutions
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Humanitarian intervention (HI) and the responsibility to protect (R2P): The United Nations and international security African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Dele Jemirade
ABSTRACT Humanitarian intervention has undergone several changes since the Second World War and the justifications behind it are continually expanding and being reshaped as a result of the interventions performed to resolve the conflicts in Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan and Kosovo, as well as a result of the emerging post-9/11 paradigm. Humanitarian intervention, while open to many different definitions
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Vuwani: Understanding the violent community response to municipal boundary re-demarcation African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Modimowabarwa Kanyane, Cyril Adonis, Stephen Rule
Prior to May 2016, the relatively unknown community of Vuwani in the Limpopo Province of South Africa had hardly been prone to violent protests and destruction of public property. This changed when...
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The hydro-political dilemma in Africa water geopolitics: The case of the Nile river basin African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Yunus Turhan
Water-related conflict chronology can be grouped around two broad sets of ideas: On the one hand is material-related conflict such as water stress and under-development; while on the other is manag...
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Determinants of energy security for rural households: The case of Melani and Hamburg communities, Eastern Cape, South Africa African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Thulani Ningi, Amon Taruvinga, Leocadia Zhou
ABSTRACT Energy plays critical direct and indirect roles in the livelihoods of human beings. Despite its relevance, the literature highlights that a majority of rural households are energy insecure and very much rely on unclean energy sources that compromise their health. Against this background, this paper estimates the determinants of energy security at the household level based on evidence from
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Reflections on community-based participation to reduce violent crimes in South Africa African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Doraval Govender
ABSTRACT This article reflects on community-based participation to reduce violent crimes in South Africa. Despite many policing strategies being developed and implemented over the years to reduce violent crimes in South Africa, these crimes are still on the increase. Against this background, the researcher reflects on some of the perceptions of violent crimes and policing that erode public confidence
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Reconnoitring the past while shaping the future: The identity crisis, internal displacement and the way forward in the Democratic Republic of Congo African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Norman Pinduka, Alfred G. Nhema
ABSTRACT The conflict that has embroiled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for decades has been one of the most vexing problems in the political history of Africa and the larger international community. The grave clashes predominantly in the eastern parts of the country have occasioned various challenges for the state and the world at large, chief among them a record of the internally displaced
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Religion, rationalism and civil war: The case of Algeria African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Mujtaba Ali Isani
ABSTRACT What role does religion play in understanding the outbreak of civil war? The purpose of this study is to offer an alternative understanding which conceptualises religion as discourse, religious identity as sacred narrative, and religious nationalism as a conflict over the power to shape interpretations of political legitimacy. A rationalist explanation for the role of religion in the outbreak
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Increasing ownership for intervention in ECOWAS African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Sanae Suzuki
ABSTRACT After the Cold War, not only the United Nations (UN) but also regional organisations began to engage in the internal conflicts of their member states. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has long intervened in West African conflicts, and institutionalised its approach to interventions in 1999. Since then, member states have maintained and even increased their commitment
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Security as an outcome for promoting economic prosperity in the regional economic communities of Africa: Evidence from a panel data analysis African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Charles Shaaba Saba
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of security outcomes on economic prosperity in Africa and its Regional Economic Communities (RECs) using a balanced panel data of 35 African countries and eight RECs for the period 1990–2015. Economic prosperity was measured with real GDP per capita as the proxy while security outcomes was computed from security effectiveness and legitimacy by using principal
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When militarisation endangered both human and state security: The Zimbabwean experience, 2000–2008 African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Enock Ndawana
ABSTRACT This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore how militarisation endangers both human and state security. While militarisation in Zimbabwe manifested itself in several ways, this study focuses on prioritising military solutions to most of the real or perceived security problems in the country between 2000 and 2008. Using data collected through review of available literature and interviews
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The broken relationship between state security and human security African Security Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Lisa Otto, Dries Velthuizen
The study of security issues almost always brings with it a feeling of pessimism, as security practitioners and scholars look through a lens of the world that forms a perspective of threats against...