Author: Fenda Akiwumi
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 183998810X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining: Strangers, Aliens, Spirits, the author uses Sierra Leone as a case study to contribute to the debates on the causes and nature of mineral resource conflicts in Africa. Unlike many works that focus on the political economy and political ecology of large-scale diamond mining conflicts, this book’s goal is to add to the limited literature on the persistent discord in mining areas. In so doing, the book integrates cultural conflict dimensions in analyzing the mineral commodity chain, primarily the clash between the centuries-old customary landlord-stranger land governance institution and state mining laws with colonial vestiges. It shows that these cultural conflicts challenge the effective development of the mining sector, including establishing artisanal mining as a viable complementary livelihood to farming for rural populations.
Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining
Author: Fenda Akiwumi
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 183998810X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining: Strangers, Aliens, Spirits, the author uses Sierra Leone as a case study to contribute to the debates on the causes and nature of mineral resource conflicts in Africa. Unlike many works that focus on the political economy and political ecology of large-scale diamond mining conflicts, this book’s goal is to add to the limited literature on the persistent discord in mining areas. In so doing, the book integrates cultural conflict dimensions in analyzing the mineral commodity chain, primarily the clash between the centuries-old customary landlord-stranger land governance institution and state mining laws with colonial vestiges. It shows that these cultural conflicts challenge the effective development of the mining sector, including establishing artisanal mining as a viable complementary livelihood to farming for rural populations.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 183998810X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining: Strangers, Aliens, Spirits, the author uses Sierra Leone as a case study to contribute to the debates on the causes and nature of mineral resource conflicts in Africa. Unlike many works that focus on the political economy and political ecology of large-scale diamond mining conflicts, this book’s goal is to add to the limited literature on the persistent discord in mining areas. In so doing, the book integrates cultural conflict dimensions in analyzing the mineral commodity chain, primarily the clash between the centuries-old customary landlord-stranger land governance institution and state mining laws with colonial vestiges. It shows that these cultural conflicts challenge the effective development of the mining sector, including establishing artisanal mining as a viable complementary livelihood to farming for rural populations.
Between Democracy and Terror
Author: Ibrahim Abdullah
Publisher: Unisa Press
ISBN: 9782869781238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This is the most authoritative study of the Sierra Leone civil war to emanate from Africa, or indeed any publications' programme on Africa. It explores the genesis of the crisis, the contradictory roles of different internal and external actors, civil society and the media; the regional intervention force and the demise of the second republic. It analyses the numerous peace initiatives designed to end a war, which continued nonetheless to defy and outlast them; and asks why the war became so prolonged. The study articulates how internal actors trod the multiple and conflicting pathways to power. It considers how non-conventional actors were able to inaugurate and sustain an insurgency that called forth the largest concentration of UN peacekeepers the world has ever seen.
Publisher: Unisa Press
ISBN: 9782869781238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This is the most authoritative study of the Sierra Leone civil war to emanate from Africa, or indeed any publications' programme on Africa. It explores the genesis of the crisis, the contradictory roles of different internal and external actors, civil society and the media; the regional intervention force and the demise of the second republic. It analyses the numerous peace initiatives designed to end a war, which continued nonetheless to defy and outlast them; and asks why the war became so prolonged. The study articulates how internal actors trod the multiple and conflicting pathways to power. It considers how non-conventional actors were able to inaugurate and sustain an insurgency that called forth the largest concentration of UN peacekeepers the world has ever seen.
Resource Wars
Author: Michael Klare
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805055764
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Klare argues that wars in the near future will be fought over the control of dwindling natural resources like oil and water.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805055764
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Klare argues that wars in the near future will be fought over the control of dwindling natural resources like oil and water.
A History of African Popular Culture
Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa
Author: Abiodun Alao
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462679
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462679
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.
Culture, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Author: Christina Beyene
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031558022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031558022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Impacts of artisanal gold and diamond mining on livelihoods and the environment in the Sangha Tri-National Park landscape
Author: Tieguhong Julius Chupezi
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693146
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693146
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Political Economy of War
Author: Philippe Le Billon
Publisher: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
ISBN: 9780850034950
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
ISBN: 9780850034950
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
African Conflicts and Informal Power
Author: Mats Utas
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848138857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big Men, often using their positions in the formal structure as a means to reach their own goals. Through a variety of in-depth case studies, including the DRC, Sierra Leone and Liberia, this comprehensive volume shows how important informal political and economic networks are in many of the continent’s conflict areas. Moreover, it demonstrates that without a proper understanding of the impact of these networks, attempts to formalize African states, particularly those emerging from wars, will be in vain.
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848138857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big Men, often using their positions in the formal structure as a means to reach their own goals. Through a variety of in-depth case studies, including the DRC, Sierra Leone and Liberia, this comprehensive volume shows how important informal political and economic networks are in many of the continent’s conflict areas. Moreover, it demonstrates that without a proper understanding of the impact of these networks, attempts to formalize African states, particularly those emerging from wars, will be in vain.
Child Soldiers
Author: Myriam S. Denov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521872243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Traces the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during and after war and examines the implications of their participation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521872243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Traces the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during and after war and examines the implications of their participation.