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  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women highlights the achievements and progress being made by African women across a wide range of sectors in society. Without glossing over the very real challenges which women in Africa continue to face, this landmark handbook demonstrates how women across the continent are deploying their agency to achieve notable progress in areas as diverse as ... Read more

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  • Women and Peacebuilding in Africa

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    Series series Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa
    This volume re-centres African women scholars in the discourse on African women and peacebuilding, combining theoretical reflections with case studies in a range of African countries.The chapters outline the history of African women’s engagement in peacebuilding, introducing new and neglected themes such as youth, disability, and religious peacebuilding, and laying the foundations for new ... Read more

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    Over the last decades, the most striking changes made by the World Bank and other development institutions are their commitments to improve the quality of governance and most importantly fighting corruption and focusing more on the developing Countries. Driven by case studies that developmental deficiencies in the developing Countries are due to the crisis of governance (seeKhan, 2002); As a ... Read more

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  • Higher Education and Capacity Building in Africa

    The geography and power of knowledge under changing conditions

    Series series Routledge Studies in African Development
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  • Routledge Handbook of Human Security

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    This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past twenty years.Human security has been part of academic and policy discourses since it was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1994 Human Development Report. Filling a clear gap in the current literature, this volume brings together some of the key scholars and ... Read more

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    Series series Problems of International Politics
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    International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Programs, Second Edition draws together the practice wisdom emerging within the broad scope of international social work practice and its role in contributing to the international community′s efforts in combating the major global social problems of poverty, conflict and postconflict reconstruction, the development of countries and disadvantaged ... Read more

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