Combatants In African Conflicts

Author : Simon David Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351065440
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combatants in African Conflicts written by Simon David Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the different types of combatants in conflicts in Africa, exploring the fine lines between what might be classified as a militia in one conflict, a rebel in another, or a terrorist in a third. Drawing on the work of Carl von Clausewitz, this book provides a conceptually stable and analytically sound new typology on combatants. Analysing the relationships between state and society, and drawing on Clausewitz's Trinity of passion, chance, and reason, the book presents a set of five types of armed actors: Professionals, Praetorians, Militias, Insurgents, and Mercenaries. Each type is developed through a close reading of foundational theoretical texts, reviews of contemporary studies, and a historical analysis of their unique characteristics. Unlike a reductionist binary perspective, this typology accounts for the dynamic, complex, and evolving relationships of these actors with the state and society. A typology of combatants in conflicts in Africa can provide avenues for more in-depth analysis of such conflicts and holds implications for Security Sector Reform projects and other peace-building programmes. As such, this book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of African Politics and Military and Security Studies.

Author : Alfred G. Nhema
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roots of African Conflicts written by Alfred G. Nhema and published by James Currey (GB). This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, along with 'The Resolution of African Conflicts', clearly demonstrates the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies.

Author : Gunnar M. Sørbø
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Conflict written by Gunnar M. Sørbø and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post Cold War Dilemmas

Author : Chris Coulter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789171066343
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Female Fighters in African Wars written by Chris Coulter and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the numerous armed conflicts that are tearing the African continent apart, young women are participants and carry guns alongside their male comrades-in-arms. Challenging the stereotype of women in African wars as victims only, this issue of the Nordic Africa Institute Policy Dialogues shows how in modern African wars women have often been as active as men. Female fighters are victimized, yet they are not mere victims. Girls and young women who volunteer to fight often possess quite considerable strength and independence. Programmes for disarming, demobilizing, and reintegrating former fighters must be based on better understanding of the range of women's roles and experiences in war and post-war settings in order to act in a gender-sensitive way and to empower this group of women in the aftermath of war.

Author : David Killingray
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010474
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Britain written by David Killingray and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of over half-a-million African troops who served with the British Army in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy, and Burma. Looks at the impact of army life and travel on the men and their families, and the role of ex-servicemen in post-war nationalist politics.

Author : Chris Peers
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848841215
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Wars written by Chris Peers and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and sub-tropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. [The author] describes in ... detail the organization and training of African warriors, their weapons, their fighting methods and traditions, and their tactics"--Jacket.

Author : Krijn Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-examining Voluntarism written by Krijn Peters and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the most important reasons, according to Sierra Leonean youth ex-combatants, leading to their decisions to join the army or rebel forces.

Author : J. McMullin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137312939
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State written by J. McMullin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Author : Guy Arnold
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810868857
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Civil Wars in Africa written by Guy Arnold and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the end of World War II, and even more so since 1960, when 17 African colonies became independent of colonial rule, the African continent has been ravaged by a series of wars. These wars have ranged from liberation struggles against former colonial powers to power struggles between different factions in the aftermath of independence. They have ranged from border wars between newly independent states to civil wars between ethnic groups. As with many conflicts, outside forces were drawn into these wars, and major powers outside the continent intervened on one side or the other for a variety of reasons: political ideology, Cold War considerations, ethnic alignments, and stemming the flow of violence. Whether referring to Algeria's struggle for independence from French colonial rule, Nigeria's internal struggles to achieve a balanced state after the British departure, the Rwandan genocide of 1994, or the current ethnic cleansing in Darfur, The A to Z of Civil Wars in Africa covers all of the wars that have occurred in Africa since independence. This is done through a chronology broken down by country, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries covering the wars, conflicts, major political and military figures, child soldiers, mercenaries, and blood diamonds.

Author : Mats Utas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848138849
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Conflicts and Informal Power written by Mats Utas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities 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 their own goals. Through a variety of in-depth case studies, including the DRC, Sierra Leone and Liberia, this comprehensive volume shows how important informal political and economic networks are in many of the continent's conflict areas. Moreover, it demonstrates that without a proper understanding of the impact of these networks, attempts to formalize African states, particularly those emerging from wars, will be in vain.