A. Byaruhanga Rukooko
Africa's Intractable Security Menace
African security studies
Africa’s Intractable Security Menace
Belachew Gebrewold
Cage Banseka
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Civil Militias
Civil Society
Civil Society Militias
Conflict Prone Societies
conflict resolution Africa
CPEs
ECOWAS Monitoring Group
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Nation Building
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North Western Uganda
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- ISBN 9781138253322
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume critically engages with the phenomenon of civil militias in Africa, especially the nature of threats and challenges they pose to national and human security. It questions why the African political scene is increasingly inundated with the activities of civil militias, examines the socio-political and economic conditions that trigger and/or encourage and sustain the operations of civil militias, and investigates the dominant motivations of African civil militias. In the face of this complex security emergency, the volume conceptualizes and theorizes the phenomenon of civil militias; focuses the academic debate and policy on the links between civil militias and the growing cycle of state failure, instability, collapse and fragmentation in Africa; broadly and critically explores and expounds the short-term security consequences of the operations of civil militias; and articulates a corpus of policy-relevant knowledge. The book is ideally suited to courses on African studies, security and peace studies and military studies but would also be of interest to practitioners.
David J. Francis is Lecturer and Founder-Director of the Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK.
