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(Berghahn Books, 2011-04-01)The Responsibility to Protect is a new human security paradigm that re-conceptualizes state sovereignty as a responsibility rather than a right. Its seminal endorsement by the 2005 World Summit has however not consolidated ...
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(Centre for Mediation in Africa. University of Pretoria, 2013-02)In recent years competition has emerged as a central theme in international mediation as an increasing number of mediation actors seek opportunities to engage in peacemaking. At the same time, mediation coordination ...
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(Centre for Mediation in Africa. University of Pretoria, 2013-03)In 1993 Malawian voters, in a referendum, overwhelmingly favoured a multi-party system. It brought an end to the one-party rule of the MCP (Malawi Congress Party) and the ‘life presidency’ of President Kamuzu Banda, who ...
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(Centre for Mediation in Africa. University of Pretoria, 2013-03)In his 2012 report on mediation, the UN Secretary-General notes a growing trend to recognize the ability of national mediators to lead mediation in intra-state conflict. This article explores the feasibility of national ...
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(Africa Institute of South Africa, 2012-12)The EU presents itself as a ‘privileged partner’ of Africa and characterises the latter as a ‘natural partner’ in the search for a new world order, an order based on norms, rules and greater equity for developing states. ...
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(John Wiley & Sons, 2013-01)South Africa, the continental economic giant and self-appointed champion of African development, is at last finding its distinctive national voice. Emboldened by the invitation to join the BRICS grouping of major emerging ...
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(ACCORD, 2012)Rwanda has a history of violent conflict resulting in mass exoduses of people to neighbouring countries, both prior to the 1994 genocide and after it. This article will consider the experiences of Rwandan refugees in terms ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2012-05)As a former illicit importer and exporter of nuclear-related equipment, South Africa remains determined to project itself as a rehabilitated nuclear state. To achieve this, the country participates in various nuclear export ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2012-11)Despite acknowledging the need for nurturing democracy from within, democracy assistance programmes have often been carried out in a top-down fashion. By starting from the limits of democracy assistance, this article ...
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In the footsteps of Hammarskjold : the United Nations and interventions for security and development (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2012-11)The league of Nations, established afeter the first World War as an institution global governance, already included in principle forms of intervention into affairs of member states (not least through the instutionalisation ...
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The policy evolution of the South African civilian intelligence services : 1994 to 2009 and beyond (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2012-05)This article traces the policy evolution of the South African state's civilian intelligence services from 1994 to 2009, and some of the influences the evolution has had in the post-2009 era. Three significant policy waves, ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2012-05)Since the end of the Cold War, the notion of regionalism in Africa has undergone, and is still undergoing, a process of transformation that includes reassessing its role, capabilities and design. However, the slow pace of ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2012-05)Climate and trade issues lie at the intersection of two of the world's most contested multilateral negotiations--the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the World Trade Organisation's Doha Round. With ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2012-11)The norms and values of the United Nations are in constant flux as the world body strives to counter evolving security challenges while adapting to changes in the international system. This was also evident in the United ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This article explores the intelligence requirement of international mediation, a topic that is ignored in both the literature on conflict resolution and the literature on intelligence. A mediator’s strategies and tactics ...
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(WeltTrends, 2012-07)No abstract available.
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(WeltTrends, 2011-07)No abstract available.
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(WeltTrends, 2012-01)No abstract available.
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(Malawi Law Society, 2011)Section 39(2) of the South African Constitution is one of the primary tools through which the Constitution is intended to do its revolutionary work, by requiring that all legislation, common law and customary law be ...
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(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 ...
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