• African doctoral dissertation research fellowship (ADDRF) program : evaluation report 

  African Population and Health Research Center (African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, KE, 2013)

  The ADDRF Program was initiated in 2008 by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in partnership with the International Development Research Center (IDRC). The Program seeks to facilitate more rigorous ...
• Beyond state-building : confronting Africa's governance and socio-economic challenges in the 21st century 

  Kale Ewusi, Samuel; Bosco Butera, Jean (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2014)

  Gaps in knowledge on peace, governance and security issues prevent the building of strong societal infrastructures that promote human development. The Africa Peace and Governance Research Network (APGR.Net) was launched ...
• Weaving peace : essays on peace, governance and conflict transformation in the Great Lakes region of Africa 

  Kale Ewusi, Samuel (Trafford Publishing, 2012)

  The essays in this volume touch to the core of challenges in resolving existing conflicts in the region, and efforts at transforming post-conflict societies in the Great Lakes. As well, it acknowledges that Africa is home ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 7, no. 1, June 2014 

  Butera, Jean-Bosco; Kale Ewusi, Samuel; Friedman, Steven (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2014-06)

  Broad trends are identified in discussion of the African Peer Review mechanism: weak states which are unable to give substance to democratic governance, and resistance by governing elites to concede full democratic rights. ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 6, no. 3, December 2013 

  Butera, Jean-Bosco; Karbo, Tony; Okumu, Wafula (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2013-12)

  Solutions to inequalities in society lie in mitigating structural inequalities. Many incumbent governments are able to manipulate constitutions with the goal of keeping political leaders and their cronies in power for ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 6, no. 1, June 2013 

  Karbo, Tony (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2013-06)

  For many women, violence is the daily condition of their lives, during wartime and peacetime, so our definitions of security need to consider the gendered realities of (in)security. In contemporary Africa, the greater ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 5, no. 2, December 2012 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Yarwood, Janette (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2012-12)

  This edition looks at governance from different perspectives: identity and nationalist movements in Cameroon; the ‘hegemonic presidency’ in Liberia and the challenges to rebuilding a shattered state; forthcoming general ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 5, no. 1, June 2012 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Matlosa, Khabele (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2012-06)

  The interface between democracy and development remains a heated subject in the policy and academic discourses in Africa. Where nation building has taken place via the expediency and capital of developmentalism, issues of ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 4, no. 2, December 2011 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Ngoma, Naison (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2011-12)

  Demands upon peacebuilding related to the following topics are explored: where faith-based organizations have played a prominent role in such countries as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Liberia; considering ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 4, no. 1, June 2011 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Ngabirano, Maximiano (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2011-06)

  Two sets of standards are often applied to Africa: in one, the international community takes decisive action when there is sufficient geo-political interest in a state, and in the other, the international community remains ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 3, no. 2, December 2010 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Nelson, Catherine (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2010-12)

  In the wake of violence, many questions remain concerning what can be done to build peace: What are the dynamics of conflict in a given African context? Why are youths at the forefront of violence in countries across the ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 3, no. 1, June 2010 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Nelson, Catherine (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2010-06)

  Conflicts funded by lootable natural resources complicate the political economy of war, and transitions to peace. Globalization has provided an outlet for the sale of illicitly obtained local resources by state and non-state ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 2, no. 2, December 2009 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Allen Nan, Susan (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2009-12)

  In conflict systems, lasting social change depends on a host of dynamics. No one approach by itself holds the solution to protracted conflict: education and youth programs are only possible where human security supports ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 2, no. 1, June 2009 

  Abdalla, Amr; Karbo, Tony; Murithi, Tim (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2009-06)

  Liberal peace theories prescribe electoral democracy and the free market as panaceas for all postconflict states, irrespective of a society’s ability to cope with the inherent competitiveness of ‘democracy’ and the markets. ...
• Africa peace and conflict journal, v. 6, no. 2, September 2013 

  Butera, Jean-Bosco; Karbo, Tony (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2013-09)

  A range of topics include: the institutionalization of parliament in Mozambique; power-sharing agreements after disputed elections; deserters in the aftermath of the Zimbabwe crisis; internal displacement in Kenya resulting ...
• Corruption and police legitimacy in Lahore, Pakistan 

  Jackson, Jonathan; Asif, Muhammad; Bradford, Ben; Zakria Zakar, Muhammad (Oxford University Press, 2014)

  Police legitimacy is an important topic of criminological research, yet it has received only sporadic study in societies where there is widespread police corruption, where the position of the police is less secure, and ...
• Brief 15 : mitigating challenges of anti – homosexuality legislation in Uganda 

  Chama, Julius (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2014-08)

  The issue of homosexuality has attracted a lot of heated debate in the world with dire consequences to the citizenry of some of the countries involved in this debacle. In Uganda the criminalization of homo-sexuality in ...
• Brief 14 : understanding gender in climate change adaptation for food security in Cameroon 

  Ndie Abia, Christine; Endeley, Joyce B. (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2014-08)

  The evidence presented in this policy brief confirms the occurrence of climate change, its effects on food crop yields with impacts on food security and the centrality of adaptation by women and men farmers to increase ...
• Brief 13 : kidnapping and security challenge in Nigeria; perceived causes and solutions 

  Olu-Owolabi, E.F. (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2014-08)

  In recent years, the future of Nigerian society has become a pressing concern as security issues apparently dominate government action and more and more nation states are coming under pressure from their own citizens. ...
• Brief 12 : amendment of the intelligence legislation to strengthen intelligence oversight in Uganda 

  Solomon, Asiimwe (University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET, 2014-08)

  Intelligence oversight in Uganda requires strengthening for effectiveness and for the country to achieve the democratic yardstick. The country has made some commendable democratic steps but the prevailing intelligence ...

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