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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Acronyms -- Part I Conceptual and Contextual Background -- Chapter 1 Introduction: DDR in Theory and Practice in Africa and Beyond - Emerging Trends and Frameworks -- Chapter 2 Lessons from the African Union's Engagement on DDR in Africa -- Part II Concepts, Contexts and Themes -- Chapter 3 Linking Transitional Justice and DDR in Africa: A Practical Analysis -- Chapter 4 Release and Reintegration of Children Formerly Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups in Africa: A Critical Reflection -- Chapter 5 Lessons Learned and Promising Approaches to Gender-Responsive DDR Programming in Africa -- Chapter 6 Emerging Trends: DDR and Countering Violent Extremism in Africa -- Part III Contextual Case Studies -- Chapter 7 Counterinsurgency, Deradicalisation and Demobilisation: Operation Safe Corridor and Defectors' Programmes in Northeast Nigeria -- Chapter 8 Innovations to DDR to Address Conflicts and Stabilise Combatants and Communities in the Central African Republic -- Chapter 9 The Cultural Realities of the White Army in South Sudan and Questioning DDR as the Appropriate Tool -- Chapter 10 The 'R' in DDR: Opportunities and Challenges of Socio-Economic Reintegration in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- Chapter 11 Somalia: Towards A Fourth Generation DDR? -- Chapter 12 Incomplete DDRR: A Prescription for Prolonged Fragility in Liberia -- Chapter 13 Ex-Combatants and Reintegration Experiences in Post-War Sierra Leone -- Chapter 14 A Contextual and Intersectional Analysis of Reintegration: The Case of Burundi -- Chapter 15 From Combatants to Civilians: A Never-Ending Transition in Zimbabwe.

"This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa. Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent, the book investigates the different theories, contextual realities and approaches that have informed the establishment and implementation of such programmes, the opportunities they have provided for stability, peace and security, and the challenges with which they have contended. The book combines broader theoretical analysis with country-specific case studies, including Nigeria, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall, the book asks how DDR programming has evolved in Africa, what factors have contributed to the success or failure of DDR processes, and what we can expect for DDR in Africa in the future. This book will be a useful guide for students and researchers across the fields of Peace and Conflict Studies, Security Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, and African Studies"--

This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe in recent years. The European ⁰́₈migrant crisis⁰́₉ from 2015 onwards has been characterised by an extremely intimidating atmosphere which denies the basic humanity of refugees and migrants. Deep rooted in Western Enlightenment trajectory, this racially-driven politics is linked to the Western theories of scientific superiority which went on to become the basis of eugenics and coloniality as part of modernity. Focusing on the ⁰́₈migrant crisis⁰́₉, Brexit, and the impacts of the global pandemic, this book unpicks the waves of crises and neuroses about the ⁰́₈Other⁰́₉ in Europe and the UK. The chapters analyse the rhetoric of camps, refrigerated death lorries, the notion of channel crossings and ⁰́₈accidental⁰́₉ drownings, the formation of relationship with border architecture such as the razor wire, and corporeal resistance in detention centres through hunger strike. In examining such specific sites of rhetorical articulation, policy formation, social imagination, and its incumbent visuality, the chapters deconstruct the intersection of dominant ideologies, power, knowledge paradigms (including the media) as part of the public sphere and their combined re-mediation of the dispossessed humans in the shores and borders of Europe. This important interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to researchers of migration, humanitarianism, geography, global development, sociology and communication studies.

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, and global levels. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) play an increasingly important role in the political, economic, and social dynamics that shape daily lives across the world. Encompassing a diverse range of organisations, objectives, and activities, the CSO sector is an expansive terrain characterised by dynamic relationships between leaders, agents of action, the communities, and the global challenges that drive their agenda, which span from poverty to climate emergency to injustice to inequalities. Drawing on case studies from Brazil, India, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Turkey, this book explores the distinct challenges faced by CSO leaders, their current operational practices, and their strategies for future development. The book highlights the roles, contributions, and challenges of young CSO leaders in particular, at a time when they are taking an increasingly active role as agents for change and development. Overall, the book emphasises the ways in which CSO leaders are not only shaped by profound challenges such as Covid-19, but also proactively react and respond. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of global development, business studies, peacebuilding, international relations, and civil society.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Collecting Shubra -- Chapter 3: "The Word Became Flesh" -- Chapter 4: Living (and Writing) in Times of Hegemony -- Chapter 5: Tricks that Matter -- Chapter 6: Martyrologies of Rubble -- Chapter 7: Jails with(-out) Miracles -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Technologies re-abstract trauma in complex ways. Approaching trauma in its cultural forms, this book considers how technologies of trauma in the guise of cultural artefacts presents moral and ethical challenges from the vernacular of storytelling and witnessing to livestreaming of terror today.

Introduction: Day Zero in Cape Town -- Christianity and the middle class in South Africa -- Middle-class morality and Christianity in South Africa -- Spiritual and class insecurity in South Africa -- Middle-class moral insecurity in South Africa -- Race, class, and habitus in South African churches -- Anomie and vocation in South African Christian ministry -- Musicking, unity, and sincerity in South African churches -- Conclusion: Covid-19 in Cape Town.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on transliteration and dates -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Islamic Finance in the Global Economy -- 1 Islamic finance in theory and practice -- 2 Islam, Economics and Finance -- 3 Riba, Gharar, and the Moral Economy of Islam in Historical and Comparative Perspective -- 4 The Evolution of Modern Islamic Finance -- 5 Islamic Finance and the Global Political Economy -- 6 Country Differences -- 7 Financial Products and Instruments -- 8 Strategic, Managerial, and Cultural Issues -- 9 Economic Issues: Islamic Finance and Development -- 10 Regulatory Issues and Challenges: Global Norms and Religious Constraints -- 11 Islamic Finance and Politics: Guilt by Association -- 12 Religious Issues and Challenges: Defining Islam and Interpreting the Shariah -- Conclusion: Islamic Finance and the Global Financial Meltdown -- Glossary -- Index

Policing everyday life on a border -- Militarism and everyday peace: gender, labor, and policing across "civil-military" terrains -- Policing Muslim marriage: the specter of the "Bengali" wife -- Blood and water: the "Bengali" wife and close-kin marriage among Muslims -- The work of belonging: citizenship and social capital across the Thar desert.