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"This book explores the relationship between the law and pervasive and persistent reasonable disagreement about justice. It reveals the central moral function and creative force of reasonable disagreement in and about the law and shows why and how lawyers and legal philosophers …
"The book deals with the methodological and ethical issues arising when researching conflicts in violently divided societies where there is no consensus about policing, law and order, the impartiality of the state or indeed about the legitimacy of the state itself. With contribu…
Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and marginalising it from the club of wealthier nations, and causing it to continue to rely on international aid
A mere two years after achieving independence, South Sudan in 2013 descended into violent civil war, refuting US government claims that the country2019s succession was a major foreign policy success and would end endemic conflict. Worse was to follow when the international commu…
For Policy-makers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental change in security discourse -- 2.1. Redefining security -- 2.2. Current security policy strategies -- 2.3. WBGU's aims and use of terms -- 3. Known conflict impacts of environmental change -- 3.1. State of conflict resear…
Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary 'liberation' movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda. After years of armed struggle against vicious dictatorships, these movements trans…
Deep in the Congo2019s Garamba National Park in the dead of night, Joseph Kony 2013 the notorious warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court 2013 made a shocking admission. Loosened by home-made wine, exposing a vulnerability he could never show the world, Kony looked Ge…
"In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation about whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books…
Each year, the international community pumps over 40 billion in humanitarian assistance into the world's most volatile environments. Without proper precautions, these resources can be hijacked by militias and, in some instances, even state militaries, benefiting the powerful at …
The Mesopotamia region, within the boundaries of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, is populated by different ethnic, national, and religious groups (Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites), which have long fought over the control of its fertile lands. Since the early 1970's, there has b…
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 until 1995 has variously been described as civil, political and ethnic. The impetus of the war was a desire for a mono-ethnic country; the method employed was ethnic cleansing; and the result was economic devastation and social annihil…
Military force is one tool available to political leaders in the conduct of foreign policy. Traditional military theorists acknowledge that military objectives must serve political aims and that the political should maintain primacy over the military. A challenge in the use of m…
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent2019s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, par…
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country apart. Yet the country has narr…
