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  • Intervention and Sovereignty in Africa

    Conflict Resolution and International Organisations in Darfur

    by Irit Back ...
    In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the founding of the African Union, a resolution about direct intervention in a conflict that involved wide-ranging abuse of human rights was accepted on a pan-continental level. Here, Irit Back looks at the ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

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  • Life after Violence

    A People's Story of Burundi

    by Peter Uvin ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary Burundians are heard for the first time.Farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk about the past and the future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their relationships ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Silent Accomplice

    The Untold Story of France's Role in the Rwandan Genocide

    by Andrew Wallis ...
    FULLY REVISED AND UPDATEDThe massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It is assumed that the West was well-intentioned, but ultimately ineffectual. But as Andrew Wallis reveals in this shocking book, one country - France - was secretly providing military, financial and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • In Praise of Blood

    by Judi Rever ...
    A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame.Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Broadcasting the End of Apartheid

    Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

    by Martha Evans ...
    South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid. While the ruling National Party feared the integrative effects of television, they did not foresee how exclusion from globally unifying broadcasts would gradually erode their power. South Africa was barred from participating in some of ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Exporting American Dreams

    Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

    Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land--not with weapons, but with legal arguments. Set ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Post-Ottoman Coexistence

    Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict

    Edited by Rebecca Bryant ...
    Series Book 16 - Space and Place
    In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as ... Read more

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  • Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding

    The Continuing Crisis in Darfur

    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types.The crisis reached its peak in 2003–2004, when certain Arab militias joined forces with the Sudan armed forces in a campaign against insurgent resistance movements. Engulfed in the tumult, Darfurians experienced systematic slaughter, sexual violence, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Narrating Itsembabwoko

    When Literature becomes Testimony of Genocide

    The tenacious belief in a disjunction of genocide and art has risen a persisting polemic in literary cricism. Narrating Itsembabwoko challenges this dichotomous thinking by assuming that a narrative about genocide is both a work and a testimony because the sense-making in work is a shared construction between writing, reading, and meaning to the point that artistic expression seems to be the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Transitional Justice, Peace and Accountability

    Outreach and the Role of International Courts after Conflict

    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice.This book critically examines the role of outreach within international justice focusing specifically on the role of outreach at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). It contributes to understanding of the relationship between ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia

    A History

    Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart. It has the longest archaeological record of any country in the world: indeed, this precipitous mountain land was where the human race began. It is also home to an ancient church with a remarkable legacy. The Church of Ethiopia is the only pre-colonial church in sub ... Read more

    $26.49 USD