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Options Stratégiques pour l'Avenir des Opérations de Paix Africaines 2015-2025 : Rapport de Séminaire
No full textLa complexité grandissante des environnements sécuritaires impose unhaut niveau d’exigences vis-à-vis des opérations de paix africaines etcomplique les efforts de long terme pour la consolidation de la paix etle renforcement de l’État. Les expériences de l'Union africaine (UA) etdes sous-régions au cours de la dernière décennie montrent qu’unmodèle africain des opérations de paix a émergé, qui est en contradictionavec les scénarios et les hypothèses multidimensionnelles demission qui sous-tendaient originellement le cadre de la Force africaineen attente (FAA).Table: Résumé -- 1. Les opérations de paix africaines: tendances et scénarios futurs? -- 2. Le contexte: le paysage actuel de la sécurité en Afrique -- 3. Les partenariats des opérations de paix de l'UA -- 4. Les dimensions civile et de police des opérations de paix -- 5. Conclusions et recommandations -- A propos des auteurs -- AppendiceCe rapport est le fruit du séminaire 'The Future of African Peace Operations: Strategic Options 2015–2025', organisé conjointement par le Nordic Africa Instituteet le Training for Peace Programme à Cape Town, 17–18 décembre 2015. Le rapportest basé sur les travaux du séminaire.</p
Globalisation and sustainable Africa-China trade : what role play the African regional organisations?
No full textAfrica's return migrants : the new developers?
No full textMany African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to 'return' is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as connections and experience gained abroad. Yet, the reality is altogether more complex. In this much-needed volume, based on extensive original fieldwork, the authors reveal that there is all too often a gaping divide between abstract policy assumptions and migrants' actual practices. In contrast to the prevailing optimism of policies on migration and development, Africa's Return Migrants demonstrates that the capital obtained abroad is not always advantageous and that it can even hamper successful entrepreneurship and other forms of economic, political and social engagement.CONTENTS: 1. Introduction - Lisa Åkesson and Maria Eriksson Baaz -- 2. Successive flops and occasional feats: development contributions and thorny social navigation among Congolese return migrants - Maria Eriksson Baaz -- 3. Diaspora returnees to Somaliland: heroes of development or job-stealing scoundrels? - Laura Hammond -- 4. Pushing development: a case study of highly skilled male return migration to Ghana - Nauja Kleist -- 5. ‘Come back, invest, and advance the country’: policy myths and migrant realities of return and development in Senegal - Giulia Sinatti -- 6. The role of social capital in post-conflict business development: perspectives from returning migrants in Burundi -Tove Heggli Sagmo -- 7. Threatening mini-skirts: returnee South Sudanese adolescent girls and social change - Katarzyna Grabska -- 8. Obstacles and openings: returnees and small-scale businesses in Cape Verde - Lisa Åkesson</p
Why South Sudan conflict is proving intractable : Ugandan forces and lack of international commitment two reasons
No full textIn December 2013 war broke out in South Sudan as a result of the power struggle between President Salva Kiir and the ex-vice president Riek Machar. Violence from both sides led to massacres and millions of displaced persons. Agreements to end hostilities have so far been violated. A sustainable peace calls for Ugandan forces to leave South Sudan. The political parties have to reform and be a part of national reconciliation instead of fighting one another
South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy
No full textIn South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the ‘extraordinary’, which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over variouspopular grievances. In this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa’s post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa.CONTENTS: Introduction, p. 1. -- 1 Modernity: civil society, political society and the vulnerable, p. 11. -- 2 The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy, p. 41. -- 3 The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy, p. 63. -- 4 The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism, p. 83. -- 5 Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony, p. 107. -- 6 Elites, masses and democratic change, p. 133. -- 7 Crisis of the national modern: democracy, the state and ANC dominance, p. 151. -- Conclusion, p. 187.</p
Neighbours and family first : donors should consider the effects of political favouritism in Africa
No full textIn many African countries it is a known fact that a person belonging to the same ethnic group as the president is less likely to be treated unfairly by the government. The same is valid for people living in the president’s home region, regardless of their ethnic affiliation. Ethnic and regional favouritism are two distinct but parallel problems. This Policy Note, drawn from data involving 20 000 citizens in 15 African countries, explore the scope of favouritism and its implications for citizens and democratic attitudes
Food security now or wait for research to assess risks? : genetically modified crops and smallholder farmers in Africa
No full textGenetically modified (GM) crops are by proponents considered as a possible solution to the food and nutrition problems in developing countries. However, there are also concerns of how side effects may affect environment and human health. These will probably still remain unknown for decades. But can Africa wait 30 years for research to give a definite answer about the risks connected with biotechnology
Strategic Options for the Future of African Peace Operations 2015-2025 : Seminar Report
No full textIncreasingly complex security environments are placing high demands on African peace operations, and complicating efforts at long-term peace- and statebuilding. From the experiences of the African Union (AU) and the sub-regions over the last decade, an African model of peace operations has emerged that is at odds with the mission scenarios and multi-dimensional assumptions that underpinned the original framework of the African Standby Force (ASF).Contents: Executive summary -- 1. African peace operations: trends and future scenarios? -- 2. The context: the contemporary African security landscape -- 3. AU peace operations partnerships -- 4. Civilian and police dimensions of African peace operations -- 5. Conclusions and recommendations -- About the authors -- AppendixThis report is an outcome of the seminar ‘The Future of African Peace Operations: Strategic Options 2015-2025’, co-hosted by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Training for Peace programme in Cape Town, 17-18 December 2015. The report is based on the proceedings of the seminar.</p
Studying Africa : a guide to the sources
No full textContents: Literature searching & searching for facts -- Africa information on the Internet -- Periodicals -- Statistics -- Official publications</p
Women and the informal economy in urban Africa : from the margins to the centre
No full textIn this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre.Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.CONTENTS: 1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing planning and economic informality in an African city -- 3. Economic informality in Nairobi between 1980 and 2010 -- 4. Women in Nairobi -- 5. Women, mobility and economic informality -- 6. Women in economic informality in Nairobi -- 7. The quest for spatial justice: from the margins to the centre -- 8. Women's collective organizations and economic informality -- 9. Conclusion</p