Suchergebnisse

In a region which has witnessed so many violent seizures of power, violations of constitutional legality, and myriad varieties of dictatorship over the past few decades, it is often easy to forget that many parts of the Middle East enjoyed elements of democracy, including freedom of speech and assembly, a free press, and hotly contested elections, as far back as the late Ottoman period.

ABSTRACT: The process of state failure, war, conflict resolution, and state reconfiguration in Sierra Leone between 1990 and 2002 was not a linear narrative but a complex, and sometimes indecipherable, script. Historical contingency and expediency were as important as the claims, ideas, plans, and policies of all of the different actors in the script. Over its duration, scholars provided varying interpretations of the Sierra Leone war that raised issues of ownership, power, representation and agency, and the relationship between insiders and outsiders. The article explores the extent to which these interpretations actually captured concrete historical realities on the ground. It points out not only the dissonances in interpretations of outsiders and insiders, but also highlights that in many instances, the scholarly analysis lagged behind or misinterpreted the unfolding phenomenon on the ground.

Introduction: African Youth and Globalisation

1 Introduction / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid. - 2 Rebellious subjects and citizens : writing subalterns into the history of Sierra Leone / Ismail Rashid. - 3 Clapping with one hand : the search for a gendered "province of freedom" in the historiography of Sierra Leone / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley. - 4 (Re) envisioning the African diaspora : historical memory and cross-fertilization in post-colonial Sierra Leone / Nemata Blyden. - 5 Historical memory, Pan-Africanism and national identity / • Tamba M'bayo. - 6 The Chalmers Commission and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Sierra Leone : official inquiries as historical memory / Lansana Gberie. - 7 Decolonization and the rise of Krio separatism / Gibril Cole. - 8 The roots of military praetorianism in Sierra Leone / Festus Cole. - 9 History and memory in contemporary Sierra Leone : re-inscribing fragments from an Atlantic past / Ibrahim Abdullah. - 10 History, memory and post-colonial Sierra Leone / Arthur Abraham. - 11 Sierra Leone at fifty : confronting old problems and preparing for new challenges / Yusuf Bangura. - 12 They hold up half the sky : prospects and challenges for Sierra Leonean women in the 21st century and beyond/ Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley

This handbook offers an up-to-date analysis of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing the AU and RECs? efforts in achieving a Pax Africana; and the role of external actors including the United Nations (UN) and former colonial powers Britain and France, but also key (non-African) troop contributing countries in these efforts. Building on the late Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui?s concept of Pax Africana - Africans taking responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security on their own continent - the authors argue that the transformation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) into the AU in 2002, was a concrete step towards the realisation of an African-wrought vision of continental peace and prosperity, and has since witnessed the creation of a set of institutions - together known as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) - for more robust conflict management