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  • The failure of peacebuilding in Somalia : the 'myth' of the nation-state 
    Samuel, Igba Ajogwu; Wielenga, Cori (Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 2019-12)
    There is a growing consensus in International Relations that the sovereign nation state, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa, is a ‘myth’ because of the several nations that can be found within one sovereign entity, made ...
  • Faith as politics – and politics as faith : Beyers Naude and Dag Hammarskjöld 
    Melber, Henning (SUNMeDIA, 2015)
    This essay explores commonalities in the faith and political spirituality of Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) and Beyers Naudé (1915-2004) on occasion of the hundredth birthday of “Oom Bey”, as Beyers Naudé was called by ...
  • Financial oversight of the civilian intelligence services in South Africa 
    Africa, Sandy (University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2019-11)
    The article assesses the state of oversight of the budget and expenditure of the South African civilian intelligence services (now called the State Security Agency). The roles of various structures, including the National ...
  • Food insecurity : the future challenge 
    Bourgeois, Robin (Wiley (open access), 2016-09)
    At a time where the amount of food produced worldwide is sufficient to feed all, the number of food-insecure people remains high. This article presents an analysis of a number of futures studies on food and agriculture, ...
  • Food sovereignty : shifting debates on democratic food governance 
    Dekeyser, Koen; Korsten, Lise; Fioramonti, Lorenzo (Springer, 2018-02)
    This article develops the concept of food sovereignty while it critically reflects on its present status and future trajectories. The concept of food sovereignty provides an alternative framework for solutions to the human ...
  • Foreign direct investment and the transfer of technologies to Angola's energy sector 
    Manyuchi, Albert Edgar (German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), 2016)
    The relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the transfer of technology is undergoing a great deal of academic scrutiny and policy analysis. A growing body of literature shows that FDI can be a channel ...
  • Foresight for all : co-elaborative scenario building and empowerment 
    Bourgeois, Robin; Penunia, Esther; Bisht, Sonali; Boruk, Don (Elsevier, 2017-11)
    We present here a co-elaborative scenario building approach, called Participatory Prospective Analysis (PPA) and discuss its relevance for empowering local communities/organizations. This approach is adapted from the French ...
  • Fostering communities of practice for improved food democracy : experiences and learning from South Africa 
    Adelle, Camilla; Kroll, Florian; Losch, Bruno; Gorgens, Tristan (Wiley, 2021)
    The highly concentrated formal agri-food sector holds enormous power in the governance of the food system in South Africa. Yet the concept of food democracy holds that all people should have an equal opportunity to participate ...
  • From defence doctrine to national security strategy : the case of the Netherlands 
    De Haas, Marcel (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    In describing Dutch security policy, the military model of levels of strategy is applied to the (civil) national security environment, followed by a discussion of the Netherlands Defence Doctrine (2005) and the Netherlands ...
  • From gross domestic product to wellbeing : how alternative indicators can help connect the new economy with the sustainable development goals 
    Fioramonti, Lorenzo; Coscieme, Luca; Mortensen, Lars F. (Sage, 2019-12)
    In a 2014 issue of Nature, members of our research group called for abandoning the gross domestic product as the key indicator in economic policymaking. In this new article, we argue that a new post–gross domestic product ...
  • From Nujoma to Geingob : 25 years of presidential democracy 
    Melber, Henning (Otjivanda Presse, 2015-12)
    Namibia’s first 25 years of independence were characterized politically by a democratic regime influenced by the presidential governance of Sam Nujoma (1990– 2005) and Hifikepunye Pohamba (2005–2015). With Hage Geingob, ...
  • From war economies to peace economies in Africa 
    Broodryk, Amelia; Solomon, Hussein (Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), University of Stellenbosch, 2010)
    One reason for the persistence and protracted nature of conflict on the African continent is the phenomenon of war economies. These have transformed the nature of war itself where the object is not at neutralizing an enemy ...
  • Future (im)perfect? Mapping conflict, violence and extremism in Africa 
    Cilliers, Jakkie (Institute for Security Studies, 2015-10)
    The central challenge for sub-Saharan Africa is to build accountable, capable governments that can deliver security and inclusive growth. Research into the drivers, trends and characteristics of violence in Africa may ...
  • The future of intrastate conflict in Africa - more violence or greater peace? 
    Cilliers, Jakkie; Schunemann, Julia (Institute for Security Studies, 2013-05)
    Many African countries experienced violent transitions after independence, which included civil wars and mass killings. This is not surprising considering the divisiveness of the original boundary-making processes, the ...
  • Geingob 2.0. Namibia’s new government 
    Melber, Henning (Otjivanda Presse, 2020-06)
    The National Assembly and Presidential election results of 27 November 2019 suggest a turning point in Namibia’s democracy. For the first time since the UN-supervised elections prior to Independence in 1990, the dominant ...
  • Genesis of the ANC's armed struggle in South Africa 1948-1961 
    Ellis, Stephen (Routledge, 2011-12)
    Revelations made by veterans of the period, and the opening of various archives, have thrown significant new light on the origins of Umkhonto we Sizwe. It is now clear that the South African Communist Party (SACP) was the ...
  • Genocide matters - negotiating a Namibian-German past in the present 
    Melber, Henning (Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, 2017)
    German colonial warfare in then South West Africa between 1904 and 1908 meets the definition of genocide. In this article, the nature and consequences of the war for the mainly affected communities of the Ovaherero and ...
  • A geopolitical analysis of South Africa-Nigeria trade relations (1994-2014) 
    Umezurike, Samuel; Isike, Christopher (Adonis and Abbey, 2018-06)
    South Africa and Nigeria are both regarded as regional ‘giants’ having real or perceived capacity to play strategic roles in Africa’s political-economic settings. On one hand, South Africa’s dominance in Africa’s ...
  • Germany and Namibia : negotiating genocide 
    Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2020)
    These Reflections present an overview and take stock of the German-Namibian bilateral negotiations how to come to terms with the genocide committed by the German empire in the colony South West Africa between 1904 and 1908. ...
  • Global trends and opportunities for development of African research universities 
    Slippers, Bernard; Vogel, Coleen H.; Fioramonti, Lorenzo (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-01)
    It has been more than a decade since Jamil Salmi, former tertiary education coordinator at the World Bank, published his influential report Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education.1 In ...