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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter albrecht”
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  • Policing and the Politics of Order-Making

    Edited by Peter Albrecht, Helene Maria Kyed ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities in densely populated spaces across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Based on ethnographic research, the chapters analyze this complex with respect to marginalized young men in Haiti, community policing members and national politicians in Swaziland as well as other individual and collective actors engaged in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Hybridization, Intervention and Authority

    Security Beyond Conflict in Sierra Leone

    by Peter Albrecht ...
    Series series Routledge Private Security Studies
    This book explains how security is organized from the local to the national level in post-war Sierra Leone, and how external actors attempted to shape the field through security sector reform.Security sector reform became an important and deeply political instrument to establish peace in Sierra Leone as war drew to an end in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through historical and ethnographic ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013

    Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action

    by Peter Albrecht, Paul Jackson ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since then, however, the UK’s contribution to post-war reconstruction has been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and state-building – particularly of the country’s security and justice institutions.Securing Sierra Leone, 1997–2013 examines how the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

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    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

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  • The Case Against Lawyers

    How the Lawyers, Politicians, and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny--and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It

    by Catherine Crier ...
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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

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  • Trading Democracy for Justice

    Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

    by Traci Burch ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
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  • Blackstone's Handbook of Cyber Crime Investigation

    by Andrew Staniforth, Police National Legal Database (PNLD) ...
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  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
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  • If the War on Drugs is Over ...Now What ?

    Security Without Easy Answers

    by Adam Blackwell ...
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  • Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers

    Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone

    by Chris Coulter ...
    During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone. When these girls and women ... Read more

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