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Conflict, Livelihoods, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau

Author : Boubacar-Sid Barry
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821370227
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Conflict, Livelihoods, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau written by Boubacar-Sid Barry and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict, Livelihoods, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. Conflict and political instability have weakened Guinea-Bissau's productive infrastructure considerably during the past three decades. This situation contributes to an increase in the degree of vulnerability of the population, especially in rural areas where most economic activities continue to take place. As growth has been weak, poverty levels remain high. This book provides a collection of papers on conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau based on both the nationally representative 2002 household survey and a small scale survey with both quantitative and qualitative components implemented in 2004. The chapters deal with growth and poverty, institutions and social networks, the determinants of poverty, the means of livelihoods of the population, and finally cashew production and taxation. Book jacket.

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies

Author : Akanmu G. Adebayo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739188054
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies by : Akanmu G. Adebayo

Download or read book Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies written by Akanmu G. Adebayo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know that since the end of the Cold War, conflicts in non-Western countries have been frequent, frequently violent, largely intra-state, and protracted. But what do we know about conflict management and resolution strategies in these societies? Have the dominant Western approaches been transplantable, suitable, effective, durable, and sustainable? Would conflicts in non-Western societies be better handled by the adaptation and adoption of customary, traditional, or localized mechanisms of mitigation? These and similar questions have engaged the attention of scholars and policy-makers. Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives is offered as a global compendium on indigenous conflict management strategies. It presents diverse perspectives on the subject. Fully aware of the tendency in the literature to over-generalize, over-romanticize, and over-criticize the localized and customary mechanisms, the book takes a slightly different approach. It presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of the successful integration of the indigenous and Western strategies in the contemporary period. The main features, strengths, challenges, and weaknesses of a multitude of indigenous systems are also presented.

The Democratic Coup d'État

Author : Ozan O. Varol
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190626038
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Coup d'État written by Ozan O. Varol and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term coup d'état--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the same, and present the same threats to democracy. It's a powerful, concise, and self-reinforcing idea. It's also wrong. In The Democratic Coup d'État, Ozan Varol advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: Sometimes, a democracy is established through a military coup. Covering events from the Athenian Navy's stance in 411 B.C. against a tyrannical home government, to coups in the American colonies that ousted corrupt British governors, to twentieth-century coups that toppled dictators and established democracy in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book takes the reader on a gripping journey. Connecting the dots between these neglected events, Varol weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we thought we knew about military coups. In so doing, he tackles several baffling questions: How can an event as undemocratic as a military coup lead to democracy? Why would imposing generals-armed with tanks and guns and all-voluntarily surrender power to civilian politicians? What distinguishes militaries that help build democracies from those that destroy them? Varol's arguments made headlines across the globe in major media outlets and were cited critically in a public speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Written for a general audience, this book will entertain, challenge, and provoke, but more importantly, serve as a reminder of the imperative to question the standard narratives about our world and engage with all ideas, no matter how controversial.

Dispute Settlement in Eastern Guinea-Bissau

Author : Anne-Kristin Borszik
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643907400
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Dispute Settlement in Eastern Guinea-Bissau written by Anne-Kristin Borszik and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is no justice in Guinea-Bissau' many people lament in this West African country. Impunity and legal uncertainty tend to mark their interactions with judges, regulos (chiefs), police officers, or imams when they have become involved in a dispute. Based on case analysis, this book analyzes dispute settlers' self-presentations, stories told of them, and aggrieved parties' agency in semi-rural Guinea-Bissau. By introducing a typology of dispute settlers, as well as the concepts of person-bound dispute settlement and supporter activation, this book contributes to debates in legal anthropology. Dissertation. (Series: Contributions to African Research / BeitrÃ?Â¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 72) [Subject: African Studies, Legal Anthropology]

Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique

Author : Eric Morier-Genoud
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222618
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique by : Eric Morier-Genoud

Download or read book Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique written by Eric Morier-Genoud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together new research on nations and nationalism in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It provides original case studies as well as a theoretical discussion on the subject.

Political Ecology of Industrial Crops

Author : Abubakari Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000431207
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Political Ecology of Industrial Crops written by Abubakari Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformation. Using the conceptual tools and perspectives of political ecology, namely multi-scalar analysis and attention to marginalisation, social difference, and discourses and narratives, this volume provides a critical and comprehensive assessment of the transformative power of industrial cropping systems. It presents a truly international overview by drawing on a range of case studies from the global South, including soybeans in South America, cashew nuts in Guinea Bissau, cotton in India, maize in China, jatropha in Ghana, sugarcane in Peru and Eswatini, and oil palm in Ghana and Peru. The unique case studies are put into perspective with chapters introducing the key concepts of political ecology and critical dimensions of industrial cropping systems related to large-scale land acquisitions, land grabbing, and marginal land. The individual chapters employ different approaches all rooted in political ecology, thus offering a rich overview of how the field engages with such cropping systems. Overall, this volume contains valuable propositions for improving current policies and practices in industrial crop settings in both developed and developing countries. Through its comprehensive and interdisciplinary outlook, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of political ecology, agrarian studies, development studies, and ecological economics.

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Author : Peter Karibe Mendy
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081088027X
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau by : Peter Karibe Mendy

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau written by Peter Karibe Mendy and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be proud of, and there was also a moment about two decades ago, when it looked like a trendsetter for democracy. Since then things have gone seriously wrong, with a collapsing infrastructure, a dilapidated economy and a political stage prone to military coups d’etats. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Guinea-Bissau tells the long and sometimes unpleasant story. However, like all the country historical dictionaries, it tells it several times and in several ways. First, the chronology traces the history of what became Guinea-Bissau, and this over a period of centuries and not just decades. Then the introduction recounts that history again, providing more insight and understanding, and conveys a good idea of how things are going now. The details follow in the dictionary section with entries on important persons, places, institutions, and events among other things. And the bibliography points to further reading.

Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention

Author : Jens Herpolsheimer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000364216
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention by : Jens Herpolsheimer

Download or read book Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention written by Jens Herpolsheimer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies relevant actors and practices of conflict intervention by African regional organizations and their intimate connection to space-making, addressing a major gap regarding what actually happens within and around these organizations. Based on extensive empirical research, it argues that those intervention practices are essentially spatializing practices, based on particular spatial imaginations, contributing to the continuous construction and formatting of regional spaces as well as to ordering relations between different regional spaces. Analyzing the field of developing practices of conflict intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), the book contributes a new theory-oriented analytical approach to study African regional organizations (ROs) and the complex dynamics of African peace and security, based on insights from Critical Geography. As such, it helps to close an empirical gap with regard to the ‘internal’ modes of operation of African ROs as well as the lack of their theorization. It demonstrates that, contrary to most accounts, intervention practices of African ROs have been diverse and complexly interrelated, involving different actors within and around these organizations, and are essentially tied to the space-making. This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of African Politics, Governance, Peace and Security Studies, International or Regional Organizations and more broadly to Comparative Regionalism, International Relations and International Studies.

Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention

Author : Kosta Mathéy
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839429900
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention written by Kosta Mathéy and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardening remain inefficient, the population must organize itself. This book contains first-hand accounts on a selection of the most innovative experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab region and is of interest likewise for academics and urban practitioners, policy makers, international cooperation experts or travelers preparing a visit of one of the affected countries. With a preface by Caroline Moser.

Maritime Security Cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea

Author : Kamal-Deen Ali
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301046
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Maritime Security Cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea written by Kamal-Deen Ali and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maritime Security Cooperation in the Guinea: Prospects and Challenges, Kamal-Deen Ali provides ground-breaking analyses of the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty

Author : Mehmet Odekon
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483345718
Total Pages : 2496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty written by Mehmet Odekon and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 2496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Second Edition addresses the persistence of poverty across the globe while updating and expanding the landmark work, Encyclopedia of World Poverty, originally published in 2006 prior to the economic calamities of 2008. For instance, while continued high rates of income inequality might be unsurprising in developing countries such as Mexico, the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported in May 2013 even countries with historically low levels of income inequality have experienced significant increases over the past decade, including Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. The U.N. and the World Bank also emphasize the persistent nature of the problem. It is not all bad news. In March 2013, the Guardian newspaper reported, “Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University’s poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.” On the other hand, the U.N. says environmental threats from climate change could push billions more into extreme poverty in coming decades. All of these points lead to the need for a revised, updated, and expanded edition of the Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Key Features: 775 evaluated and updated and 175 entirely new entries New Reader’s Guide categories Signed articles, with cross-references Further Readings will be accompanied by pedagogical elements Updated Chronology, Resource Guide, Glossary, and thorough new Index The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Second Edition is a dependable source for students and researchers who are researching world poverty, making it a must-have reference for all academic libraries.

The Environmental Crunch in Africa

Author : Jon Abbink
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319771310
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Crunch in Africa written by Jon Abbink and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the problems and challenges of environmental–ecological conditions in Africa, amidst the current craze of economic growth and ‘development’. Africa’s significant economic dynamics and growth trajectories are marked by neglect of the environment, reinforcing ecological crises. Unless environmental–ecological and population growth problems are addressed as an integral part of developmental strategies and growth models, the crises will accelerate and lead to huge costs in later years. Chapters examine multiple emerging tension points all across the continent, including the potential benefits and harm of growing urban-based ecotourism, the trajectory of labour-saving technologies and the problems facing agro-pastoralism. Although environmental management and sustainability features of African rural societies should not be idealized, functional 'traditional' economies, interests and management practices are often bypassed, seen by state elites as inefficient and inhibiting 'growth'. In many regions the seeds are now sown for lasting environmental crises that will affect local societies that have rarely been given opportunity to claim accountability from the state regimes and donors driving these changes.

The Statesman's Yearbook 2015

Author : B. Turner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349672785
Total Pages : 1588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Statesman's Yearbook 2015 written by B. Turner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 151st edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: http://www.statesmansyearbook.com.

The Statesman's Yearbook 2016

Author : Nick Heath-Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349578231
Total Pages : 1564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book The Statesman's Yearbook 2016 written by Nick Heath-Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 1564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 152nd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www.statesmansyearbook.com .

Twins in the World

Author : A. Piontelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230615538
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Twins in the World written by A. Piontelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling narrative Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her travels around the world, Piontelli has studied the role of twins, especially throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific rim, observing different cultural perspectives and how differing societies treat them.

The Statesman's Yearbook 2017

Author : Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349683981
Total Pages : 1529 pages
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Download or read book The Statesman's Yearbook 2017 written by Palgrave Macmillan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 1529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 153rd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www.statesmansyearbook.com.

Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations

Author : Semali, Ladislaus M.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799846474
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations written by Semali, Ladislaus M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, poverty affects millions of people’s lives each day. Children are hungry, many lack the means to receive an education, and many are needlessly ill. It is a common scene to see an impoverished town surrounded by trash and polluted air. There is a need to debunk the myths surrounding the impoverished and for strategies to be crafted to aid their situations. Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations is an authored book that seeks to clarify the understanding of poverty reduction in a substantive way and demonstrate the ways that poverty is multifaceted and why studying poverty reduction matters. The 12 chapters in this volume contribute to existing and new areas of knowledge production in the field of development studies, poverty knowledge production, and gender issues in the contemporary African experience. The book utilizes unique examples drawn purposely from select African countries to define, highlight, raise awareness, and clarify the complexity of rural poverty. Covering topics such as indigenous knowledge, sustainable development, and child poverty, this book provides an indispensable resource for sociology students and professors, policymakers, social development officers, advocates for the impoverished, government officials, researchers, and academicians.