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Political Economy of Resource, Human Security and Environmental Conflicts in Africa

Author : Kelechi Johnmary Ani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811620369
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Economy of Resource, Human Security and Environmental Conflicts in Africa by : Kelechi Johnmary Ani

Download or read book Political Economy of Resource, Human Security and Environmental Conflicts in Africa written by Kelechi Johnmary Ani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa. It recognizes the need for resources in Africa to be processed into finished goods in order to influence global market and redefine the pattern of trade relations with powerful countries of Asia, America and Europe in shaping the destiny and future of African countries. The achievement of this laudable objective is plagued by the security challenges which are directly or indirectly linked to resource-related conflicts rocking most of the resource endowed countries in the continent, thereby threatening global peace and security. To deal with this menace in the continent, it requires global co-operation and support of foreign governments, international organizations, international non-government organizations, governments of host countries and its citizens. The book presents the cases and experiences of countries that are endowed with resource, as well as have experienced different forms of human insecurity and have witnessed environmental conflicts in its analysis, which make the discourse interesting and quite educating.

Environment and Conflict in Africa

Author : University for Peace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789977925639
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis Environment and Conflict in Africa by : University for Peace

Download or read book Environment and Conflict in Africa written by University for Peace and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book by Marcel Leroy investigates the broader context within which environmental and climate factors are affecting conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on Darfur. It includes the project's in-house research, as well as twenty-five contributed articles that were developed from presentations to a conference that was held in Addis Ababa on 20-23 July 2009. At this meeting, academics (including faculty members of the three Darfur universities) and officials of agencies with responsibility for conducting humanitarian efforts and environmental management in Darfur looked at concrete avenues for addressing the crisis. Particular attention is paid to environmental and livelihood aspects of the crisis in Darfur. Conclusions are drawn regarding peace-building in areas facing resource constraints. The book includes research conducted in-house at UPEACE Africa in Addis Ababa under a project funded by the Preventive Diplomacy Programme of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Also included are twenty-five contributed papers that are based on presentations made at a conference which was organized by the project in Addis Ababa in July 2009.

Environmental Peacemaking

Author : Ken Conca
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871931
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)

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Book Synopsis Environmental Peacemaking by : Ken Conca

Download or read book Environmental Peacemaking written by Ken Conca and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2002-11-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight contributions written by professors of political science, government, and politics as well as researchers and program directors for environmental change, energy, and security projects provide insight into the process of environmental peacemaking, based on their experiences in a variety of international regions. An initial chapter makes a case for the process; successive chapters address the Baltic, South Asia, the Aral Sea basin, southern Africa, the Caspian Sea, and the US-Mexican border. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Conflict-sensitive adaptation to climate change in Africa

Author : Urmilla Bob
Publisher : BWV Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3830533047
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Conflict-sensitive adaptation to climate change in Africa by : Urmilla Bob

Download or read book Conflict-sensitive adaptation to climate change in Africa written by Urmilla Bob and published by BWV Verlag. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In preparation for COP17 (17th Conference of the Parties) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC), the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in Durban, held a two- day expert seminar to identify issues and recommendations for ensuring that adaptation to climate change is conflict-sensitive ...papers presented during the meeting were peer-reviewed and compiled for this pertinent book." -- ACCORD.

Conflict and the Environment

Author : N.P. Gleditsch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940158947X
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Conflict and the Environment by : N.P. Gleditsch

Download or read book Conflict and the Environment written by N.P. Gleditsch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War. The decline of the East-West conflict has opened up the arena for increased attention to other lines of conflict, in Europe and at the global level. Environmental disruption, not a new phenomenon by any means, is a chief beneficiary of the shift in priorities in the public debate. The Scientific and Environmental Affairs Divi sion of NATO has moved with the times and has defined environmental security as one of its priority areas for cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. This book is the main output of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), held in Bolkesjl/l, Norway, 12-16 June 1996. I would like to acknowledge the personal support of L. Veiga da Cunha, Director of the Priority Area on Environmental Security. Research on these issues is now very much a collaborative effort across former lines of division in Europe. NATO encourages, indeed requires, that this be reflected in the composition of the participants, as well as the organizing committee. This meeting was organized by a group of five people from five different countries: Lothar Brock (Germany), Nils Petter Gleditsch (Norway), Thomas Homer-Dixon (Canada), Renat Perelet (Co-Director, Russia), and Evan Vlachos (USA).

African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century

Author : Helen E. Purkitt
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969908
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Book Synopsis African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century by : Helen E. Purkitt

Download or read book African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century written by Helen E. Purkitt and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa

Author : Kelechi Johnmary Ani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811973431
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa by : Kelechi Johnmary Ani

Download or read book Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa written by Kelechi Johnmary Ani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the failure of many African governments in providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources. Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned, explored and marketed by the machinery of the state. The problem arises when the masses begin to challenge state access and ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral land, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government officials. Paradoxically, in Niger Delta of Nigeria, as discussed in the book, the state has unleashed unlimited might upon all social groups and agitators, thereby leading to the increased act of taking arms by such groups. When the informal resource agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand social and environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict between them and the government security agencies. Sometimes, the confrontation could be between them and other rival local resource actors in the informal sector of their country’s economy bearing in mind that the resources within their jurisdiction have become the central determinant of national commonwealth. It is at that state of desperado to control access, extraction and sale of natural resources in a State, by different armed groups that the process of natural resources extraction qualifies as the most visible cause of conflicts and crises around the African continent that is the centrepiece of the book. This is quite understandable given that mineral resource is a gift of nature; and nature is that phenomenon that every human, group and nation claim to represent, or, believe to represent them.

Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa

Author : Charlène Cabot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642292372
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa by : Charlène Cabot

Download or read book Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa written by Charlène Cabot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in West Africa and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats. In the wake of climate change, rising temperatures, increasingly irregular rainfall and more frequent natural hazards will endanger the ways of life of vulnerable population groups in this region and destabilize their human security. A surge in violence and conflicts could take place. One of the conflict constellations could be between farmers and herders. These groups are highly vulnerable to climate change due to their dependence on natural resources Millions of people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in West Africa and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats. In the wake of climate change, rising temperatures, increasingly irregular rainfall and more frequent natural hazards will endanger the ways of life of vulnerable population groups in this region and destabilize their human security. A surge in violence and conflicts could take place. One of the conflict constellations could be between farmers and herders. These groups are highly vulnerable to climate change due to their dependence on natural resources for their subsistence. Furthermore, they are historically prone to enter into conflict over issues of access to natural resources. However, social, economic and political circumstances fundamentally influence environmental conflicts. There might thus be opportunities to face the societal challenges of climate change in a peaceful way and the political and institutional framework could play an important role in reducing conflict and violence. In order to explore such a path, this study analyses the potential of political factors (policies and institutions) for the reduction of climate-change-induced or aggravated conflicts between farmers and herders. After a theoretical demonstration, a case study of agro-pastoral conflicts in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana is conducted. their subsistence. Furthermore, they are historically prone to enter into conflict over issues of access to natural resources. However, social, economic and political circumstances fundamentally influence environmental conflicts. There might thus be opportunities to face the societal challenges of climate change in a peaceful way and the political and institutional framework could play an important role in reducing conflict and violence. In order to explore such a path, this study analyses the potential of political factors (policies and institutions) for the reduction of climate-change-induced or ‐aggravated conflicts between farmers and herders. After a theoretical demonstration, a case study of agro-pastoral conflicts in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana is conducted.

Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa

Author : M.A. Salih
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401591652
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa by : M.A. Salih

Download or read book Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa written by M.A. Salih and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the subject of an ongoing debate. The de bate has moved on from the earlier, but still popular, notions of 'power struggles', 'class struggles' and 'ethnic conflicts', to a perception of conflict as the product of intense group competition for resources. Where the state controls the distribu tion of resources, itself inevitably becomes party to conflicts whose bone of con tention is access to state power as the most efficient means of gaining access to resources. The resources in question are social (health, education, transportation, communication, recreation, etc. ) and material (land, water, housing, jobs, con tracts, licenses, permits, etc. ). In parts of the world, and especially in Africa, di minishing resources and authoritarian state rule exacerbate group competition leading to political confrontation. This is the line I have followed in analysing conflict in the Hom of Africa (Markakis, 1987, 1998). Mohamed Salih's first contribution in this volume is to move the debate a step beyond this line, which can be criticized as unduly materialist. He does it by bringing culture into the realm of resources, not only as a resource in itself, but also as the agency that assigns natural resources their value. Culture thus becomes a contextual element in conflict over resources whose value is culturally deter mined.

Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance

Author : Tim Krieger
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 1529202167
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance written by Tim Krieger and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental conflict is a key driver of migration and this will only increase with climate change. Presenting insights from across the social sciences, this book examines the complex interdependencies between conflicts induced by environmental challenges and migration, proposing important governance strategies for the future.

Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

Author : Abiodun Alao
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462679
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa written by Abiodun Alao and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.

The Challenge for Africa

Author : Wangari Maathai
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307378098
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge for Africa written by Wangari Maathai and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the author of Unbowed, sees things differently, and here she argues for a moral revolution among Africans themselves. Illuminating the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, Maathai offers “hardheaded hope” and “realistic options” for change and improvement. She deftly describes what Africans can and need to do for themselves, stressing all the while responsibility and accountability. Impassioned and empathetic, The Challenge for Africa is a book of immense importance.

Violence Through Environmental Discrimination

Author : Günther Baechler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940159175X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Violence Through Environmental Discrimination by : Günther Baechler

Download or read book Violence Through Environmental Discrimination written by Günther Baechler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con flict studies focus more and more on domestic conflicts. This is a broad field, not only because the arbitrary line between war and sub-war violence disap pears and the analyst is confronted with phenomena reaching from criminal violence and clashes between communities to violent conflicts of long duration and civil wars with massacres and genocides as their characteristics. It is also because there are so many different types of conflicts to be analyzed, so many different types of behavior to be studied, whereas there is often little informa tion available on what is really going on. Against the background of internal conflicts, which tend to be as protracted as diffuse in terms of time, intensity, actors, and their goals, this study aims to follow a specific pathway through the current thicket of violent circumstances. It focuses on causation patterns by exploring the causal role of the environ mental factor in the genesis of violent conflicts occurring today and probably even more so tomorrow. This approach, which for once does not focus on a specific level of the conflict system, on one area in the conflict geography, or on a specific category of actors, analyzes causation dynamics.

War and Conflict in Africa

Author : Paul D. Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509509089
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book War and Conflict in Africa written by Paul D. Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them? In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace. Part I, Contexts provides an overview of the most important attempts to measure the number, scale and location of Africa's armed conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged. Part II, Ingredients analyses the role of five widely debated features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as well as the impact of natural resources and religion. Part III, Responses, discusses four major international reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent; this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking initiatives and peace operations; and efforts to develop the continent. War and Conflict in Africa will be essential reading for all students of international peace and security studies as well as Africa's international relations.

Environmental Scarcity and Violent Conflict

Author : Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Scarcity and Violent Conflict written by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa

Author : Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815775942
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (759 download)

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Book Synopsis Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa by : Donald S. Rothchild

Download or read book Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa written by Donald S. Rothchild and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. The book demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution, along with a political environment that fosters development.

Governing Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Africa

Author : Obasesam Okoi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003830188
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Governing Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Africa by : Obasesam Okoi

Download or read book Governing Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Africa written by Obasesam Okoi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace. One of the most prominent challenges facing Africa today is the consequences of natural resource extraction. While these resources hold the potential for economic transformation across Africa, their extraction also comes with a range of environmental, social, and economic consequences, including issues related to governance. This book assembles a unique cohort of peacebuilding, environmental justice, and sustainable development scholars and practitioners from Africa and beyond to examine the dynamics of natural resource conflict and explore the governance approaches that offer pathways for sustainable peace in Africa. Drawing on case studies and empirical lessons from the Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, East Africa, and the Central Sahel region, along with the African Union, the multidisciplinary contributors offer fresh insights into the nature of natural resource conflict in Africa, delve deeper into the complexities of natural resource governance, and highlight the interplay between resource governance and sustainable peace. By shedding light not only on Africa’s experiences and vulnerabilities but also on the challenges of natural resource governance, this book fills a crucial gap in understanding the connection between natural resource governance, conflict, and pathways for sustainable peace in Africa. Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance, peace and conflict studies, environmental policy and justice, sustainable development, security studies and African studies more widely.