Proceedings of the Conference on the Contribution of Traditional Authority to Development, Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Strategies for Africa
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan M. Kilonzo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-11-18
Total Pages: 819
ISBN-13: 3031368290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development in Africa, while also acknowledging that religion can also be a tool of destruction, and can be used to fuel violence and underdevelopment. Contributors to this volume offer theoretical discussions from existing literature, as well as experiences of practitioners, to deepen the readers’ understanding on the role of religion and religious institutions in peacebuilding and development in Africa. The Handbook provides reflections on possible future developments as well, thereby aligning with the goals of SDG 16.
Author: Donald Iain Ray
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1552380807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa -- this volume addresses it head-on. Case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica are included. An interdisciplinary and intercontinental collection that addresses this gap in dialogue about African politics. The book brings new perspectives on the integration, or reconciliation, of traditional leadership with democratic systems of local government.
Author: Charles Mwalimu
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 9781433107825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Charles Mwalimu explores viable grassroots representation mechanisms in African constitutions in order to positively integrate indigenous and modern systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. A comparative study method is used to examine the constitutional principles of chieftaincy and local government and their impact on human rights. To establish and prove lack of positive integration Mwalimu connects this failure to poor constitutionalism, development and stultified growth and human rights violations. This book proposes remedial actions to build nondiscriminatory constitutional regimes eradicating violations of human rights.
Author: Christof Heyns
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2001-04-11
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9789041115782
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Author: Wisdom J. Tettey
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9789004130135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of contemporary Ghanaian politics and economy and their relationship to culture. It combines rich, recent, empirical material with sophisticated theoretical analyses, bringing fresh and unique interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on the issues examined.
Author: Katharina Pistor
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0231540760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching for ways to ensure their fair distribution. This book argues that the division of essential resources ought to be governed by a combination of Voice and Reflexivity. Voice is the ability of social groups to choose the rules by which they are governed. Reflexivity is the opportunity to question one's own preferences in light of competing claims and to accommodate them in a collective learning process. Having investigated the allocation of essential resources in places as varied as Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Laos, Morocco, Nepal, the arid American West, and peri-urban areas in West Africa, the contributors to this volume largely concur with the viability of this policy and normative framework. Drawing on their expertise in law, environmental studies, anthropology, history, political science, and economics, they weigh the potential of Voice and Reflexivity against such alternatives as pricing mechanisms, property rights, common resource management, political might, or brute force.
Author: Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783825835491
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Published: 2002
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Werner Zips
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 3825898229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw is considered by lawyers and sociologists to be at the very center of social integration in Western societies, whereas social anthropological discourses regard law as marginal in non-Western societies. Empirical studies of multi-sited legal frameworks in many post-colonial political settings demonstrate the difficulties to achieve any predictable mode of governance, much less "good governance." This book challenges both the marginalization of legal arrangements and discourses in social anthropology, as well as the marginalization of legal anthropology within social anthropology. It combines the related fields of Political and Legal Anthropology in order to contribute towards a meaningful (re)integration of the anthropology of law into the mainstream of social anthropology. (Series: Ethnologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Vol. 12)