The Security Arena in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Security Arena in Africa write by Tim Glawion. This book was released on 2020-01-30. The Security Arena in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on in-depth fieldwork, Tim Glawion explores how local security functions in some of the world's most fragile states across Central and East Africa.
Regional Organizations in African Security
Regional Organizations in African Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Organizations in African Security write by Fredrik Soderbaum. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Regional Organizations in African Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has the state’s capacity to provide security and political stability to its citizens. This book deals with the role of regional organizations in Africa’s security. It focuses on three basic—yet often overlooked—questions: (1) the advantages and disadvantages of African regional and sub-regional organizations vis-à-vis other security mechanisms, (2) the official and unofficial reasons to intervene, and (3) whether security is actually protected by the peace activities carried out by the regional organizations. The contributors to the book—all leading researchers in the field—systematically assess and compare the role of the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). This book was based on a special issue of African Security.
Reimagining Security Communities
Reimagining Security Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reimagining Security Communities write by Francis Onditi. This book was released on 2021-05-24. Reimagining Security Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community (“RSC”) arrangement in Africa. In responding to the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms. However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional “RSC” into a simplified tool kit of “resources”, making this text book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international relations, and all those concerned with regional security and strategic studies.
Security Arena
Security Arena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Security Arena write by Tim Glawion. This book was released on 2018. Security Arena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-conflict Societies
Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-conflict Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-conflict Societies write by Judy Smith-Höhn. This book was released on 2010. Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-conflict Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Liberia and Sierra Leone, strategies to reform and reconstruct the security sector have centred on re-establishing the state's monopoly on the use of force. However, little attention is given to the array of non-state actors that often play a major role in how individuals and communities experience security. Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-Conflict Societies: Perceptions from Urban Liberia and Sierra Leone seek to address this gap by applying a human security approach to security provision across these two contexts. A key point of departure is that in the long run there can be no alternative within post-conflict societies to a locally owned security sector. Operationalising the concept of local ownership means that internationally-supported security sector reform (SSR) activities need to reflect these local realities. As explored within this study, fostering synergies between state and non-state security actors may therefore offer an important avenue to support more sustainable, legitimate SSR efforts. Judy Smith-HÃ?¶hn is a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to her present position she was a research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg, Germany and later a senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town in South Africa. Her thematic emphases lie in the areas of violent conflict and its prevention, and security sector reform within a regional focus on Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe. She has published nationally and internationally on topics ranging from security sector reform and postconflict peacebuilding to democratic transformation in South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Leipzig, Germany, and a Diplom (masters degree) in Political Science from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
