Conversion in South Africa in the 1990s
Author: Peter G. Batchelor
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13:
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Demilitarisation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa
Author: Peter Batchelor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-17
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 0429838301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2004 , this work is based on a collaborative research project, this trilogy considers the dynamics of demilitarisation and peace-building in southern Africa in the aftermath of major violent conflicts. The overall aim of the research is to support and facilitate the achievement of sustainable peace and human development in southern Africa, by analysing demilitarisation and peace-building processes in the region and identifying policy options and interventions for peace-building. The central focus of the research is the extent to which demilitarisation following the termination of wars has contributed to broad processes of peace-building in the affected region. Has the military in southern Africa downsized and refocused towards new roles? Has there been a 'peace-dividend', allowing more investment in economic and human development, thereby dealing with some of the root causes of conflict? Volume I provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of demilitarisation and peace-building processes, applicable particularly in the southern Africa context. This volume argues that a broad concept of peace-building has to take into account economic, political, social and cultural factors, at the local, national and regional level.
From Defence to Development
Author: Jacklyn Cock
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2014-05-28
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1552501515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemember the global peace dividend - the budget surpluses that were supposed to result from the raising of the Iron Curtain and the end of the arms race? As war-torn societies in the Middle East, Latin America, and parts of Africa found peace and began building democratic societies, governments were supposed to use the money they once spent on the military to better meet basic human needs. But has it happened?
South Africa, Past, Present and Future
Author: Tony Binns
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1317880390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race, class, gender and ethnic identities. Bringing together the research of an historical geographer and two development geographers, the book enables us to locate the post-apartheid transition in a broad historical and spatial perspective. Within this perspective, the limitations as well as the achievements of South Africa's current transformation are highlighted.
Understanding Religious Conversion
Author: Lewis Ray Rambo
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780300065152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at a wide variety of religions, this work offers an exploration of religious conversion. The phenomena is approached from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, theology and anthropology.
Disarmament and Defence Industrial Adjustment in South Africa
Author: Peter G. Batchelor
Publisher: Sipri Monograph
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780198294139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Batchelor and Susan Willett analyse the response of the South African defence industry to drastic cuts in military expenditure and the demilitarization of society since the end of the cold war and apartheid, and the stabilization of the regional security situation. The new ANC-led government is seeking to use the resources released - the `peace dividend' - to restructure and revitalize the country's industrial base and to support reconstruction, development, and redistribution. A lively debate on the country's security needs and strategic doctrine is under way. As in other countries, strategies of industrial diversification and conversion have met with limited success. In the absence hitherto of any coherent government policy on defence industrial adjustment, significant skills and technologies have been lost or wasted. This book provides a historical analysis of South Africa's unique opportunity to develop new and innovative policies on defence and security matters, the arms industry and arms exports, and makes a valuable contribution to the international debate on the relationship between disarmament and development.
Juta's Statutes of South Africa
Author: South Africa
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPost Sovereign Constitution Making
Author: Andrew Arato
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-03-10
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0191074020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstitutional politics has become a major terrain of contemporary struggles. Contestation around designing, replacing, revising, and dramatically re-interpreting constitutions is proliferating worldwide. Starting with Southern Europe in post-Franco Spain, then in the ex-Communist countries in Central Europe, post-apartheid South Africa, and now in the Arab world, constitution making has become a project not only of radical political movements, but of liberals and conservatives as well. Wherever new states or new regimes will emerge in the future, whether through negotiations, revolutionary process, federation, secession, or partition, the making of new constitutions will be a key item on the political agenda. Combining historical comparison, constitutional theory, and political analysis, this volume links together theory and comparative analysis in order to orient actors engaged in constitution making processes all over the world. The book examines two core phenomena: the development of a new, democratic paradigm of constitution making, and the resulting change in the normative discussions of constitutions, their creation, and the source of their legitimacy. After setting out a theoretical framework for understanding these developments, Andrew Arato examines recent constitutional politics in South Africa, Hungary, Turkey, and Latin America and discusses the political stakes in constitution-making. The book concludes by offering a systematic critique of the alternative to the new paradigm, populism and populist constituent politics.
Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870–1990
Author: Leila Koivunen
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Published: 2024-06-27
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9518588872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection re-examines the long history of Finnish-Namibian relations through the lens of colonialism without colonies as well as anti-colonialism. The book argues that although Finland never acquired colonies, Namibia was once treated in the areas of culture and knowledge formation in a manner now recognised as colonial. Namibian people’s ways of being in the world was transformed when the Finnish Missionary Society started its work in Owambo in 1870 and introduced Christianity and European modes of education, medicine, material culture and social practices. In time, cultural colonialism faded and during the Namibian struggle for independence from South African rule in 1966–1990 Finns took an actively anti-colonial approach. The book was written as a collaborative effort of Namibian, Finnish and South African scholars.
