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  • Trauma-sensitivity and Peacebuilding

    Considering the Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp

    by Lydia Wanja Gitau ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book identifies a gap in peacebuilding theory and practice in terms of sensitivity to trauma and its impact on the survivors of war and other mass violence. The research focuses on the traumatic experiences and perceptions of peace of South Sudanese refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northwestern Kenya. It further explores the possibilities for peacebuilding identified in these perceptions. A ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Violence against Women of African Descent

    Global Perspectives

    by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton, Nenadi Adamu, Dina Alves, Joseph Appiahene-Gyamfi, Maame Yaa A. Barnes, Kgomotso Pearl Bosilong, Soumia Boutkhil, Elisa Garcia-España, Camille Gibson, Lydia Wanja Gitau0, Winnie Kanana Munene1, Meseret Kassahun Desta2, Karatu Kiemo3, Jesca Kinoti4, Jephias Matunhu5, Viola Matunhu6, Paulin Mbecke7, Ndungi wa Mungai8, Ngozi Osarenren9, Timi Osidipe0, Udo Chikezie Osisiogu1, Caterina Peroni2, Indira Rampersad3, Elisa Rapetti4, Kanika Samuels-Wortley5, Dahlia Stoddart6, Pietro Toggia7, Marika Dawkins-Cavazos8 ...
    Africa as a continent, which holds strong to its patriarchal cultural principles and practices, is known for its blatant display of violent abuse of women, including state-sanctioned violence, and its lax approach to national legislative policies and international treaties against violence against women. Using data from Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe, this edited collection showcases ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

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  • Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle

    Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts

    by Gene Sharp ...
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  • State of Rebellion

    Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

    by Louisa Lombard ...
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    Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – ... Read more

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  • Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace

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    One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel.The Nakba saw the displacement of 85% of the Palestinian Arab population and the descendants of these displaced peoples numbers almost 5 million. Despite the gravity of the situation and the importance of restorative justice, ... Read more

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  • Ethics and Global Security

    A cosmopolitan approach

    by Anthony Burke, Katrina Lee-Koo, Matt McDonald ...
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    This book will be the first systematic examination of the role that ethics plays in international security in both theory and practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global security.Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to global security, from the death camps, world wars and H-bombs of the 20th century, to the humanitarian missions, tsunamis, terrorism and refugees ... Read more

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    The Europeanization of national foreign policy

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  • Reconstruction and Peace Building in the Balkans

    The Brcko Experience

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    As peace activists have faced increased government repression and accusations of being unpatriotic since 9/11, Toussaint examines how current attempts to control dissent impact the peace movement. This study offers an analysis of self-identified peace activists in terms of their demographic characteristics, motivation for activism, political opportunities, and views of the peace movement. It also ... Read more

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