This study explores roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess its impact on behavior in conflict. In the last two decades, rituals designed to imbue people with supernatural power and make them immune to enemy fire have been seen on post-Cold War battlefields across Africa. Wlodarczyk argues that the use of magic in warfare can be ...

'Bite of the Mango' tells the astonishing story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. pages cm

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Recommendations: To the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire -- To all governments donating funds to Liberia -- To the economic community of West Africa (ECOWAS) and the African Union -- To the United Nations Security Council -- To the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and United Nations Operation in ...

ARCH04545: Collectie Reis- en identiteitsdocumenten (eerste aanvulling) Afrika Sierra Leone

ARCH04545: Collectie Reis- en identiteitsdocumenten (eerste aanvulling) Afrika Sierra Leone

February 2004. 75 p. : maps. ; 21 cm.

"Peace support operations (PSOs) -- internationally authorized, multilateral, civil-military efforts to promote and protect such transitions from war to peace -- are the subject of this volume, which treats six recent cases -- Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Daytona Accords, Kosovo, East Timor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan -- in some detail. It does so using a common ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Joachim-Albrecht von Holleuffer 20.03.1921 in Emden Schulbildung: 1927 - 1931 Volksschule 1931 - 1939 humanistisches Gymnasium mit Reifeprüfung 1953 - 1955 Fernstudium an der Akademie für Welthandel (ohne Abschlussprüfung) Beförderungen: 01.02.1940 Seekadett 01.07.1940 Fähnrich zur See 01.07.1941 Oberfähnrich zur See 01.06.1942 Leutnant zur See 01.12.1943 Oberleutnant ...

Conceptualising peacekeeping -- UN peacekeeping operations : overview of case studies and relevance to evolving concepts and practice -- Conceptualising co-deployment -- International experiment with co-deployment -- Wars and armed conflicts in Africa : challenges to peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention in complex political emergencies -- UN peacekeeping in Africa : an overview -- OAU peacekeeping ...

United Nations Security Council policy on Africa / Jane Boulden. - Peacekeeping potential of African regional organizations / Eric G. Berman and Katie E. Sams. - Do regional organizations matter? Comparing the conflict management mechanisms in West Africa and the Great Lakes region / Clement E. Adibe. - Liberia / 'Funmi Olonisakin. - Sierra Leone / W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe. - Ethiopia-Eritrea war / Leenco ...

Dark side of humans / Ton Zwaan. - Genocide, an enduring problem of our age / Uǧur Ümit Üngör. - Ethnic nationalism and genocide : constructing "the other" in Romania and Serbia / Diana Oncioiu. - Demonic transitions : how ordinary people can commit extraordinary evil / Christophe Busch. - State deviancy and genocide : the state as a shelter and a prison / Kjell Anderson. - Hunting specters : paranoid ...

This text describes the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and suggests that the USA was not merely an innocent bystander to the events that led to the systematic mass killing of humans. It also introduces the world of international mining and the dubious nature of the network of investors and agents of influence that support the mining industry. It considers how the unlikely confluence of African, American, ...

Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, ...

From the early 1990s, humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have with increasing frequency been working in distinctly hostile envrionments. Commonly called "complex emergencies," these multi-dimensional humanitarian crises usually involve some combination of mass population movement, severe food insecurity, macro-economic collapse, and acute civil and military conflict including even genocide. ...

As the United Nations celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1995, it is enjoying a revival of interest among scholars, statesmen, and the general public. This development is closely related to changes in the basic parameters of the post-1945 world order, and the primary concern of this book is to examine, against this changing backdrop, multilateralism and the UN system from the perspective of what is ...

This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as 'post-conflict' or 'post-war'. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both ...

In 1838, the British government outlawed the slave trade, emancipated all of the slaves in its possessions, and began to interdict slave ships en route to the Americas. Almost at once, colonies that had depended on slave labour were faced with a liberated and unwilling labour force. At the same time, newly freed slaves in Sierra Leone (and later from America and elsewhere) were "persuaded" to emigrate ...

"Imagine a criminal justice system that achieves fewer than five convictions per year and spends more than $20 million on each one. By some measures, this would make it the least efficient prosecutorial system in recorded history. Imagine that this same system consistently runs the risk of creating rather than deterring crimes, with few victims or perpetrators believing that it provides fairness, equity, ...