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Protecting Human Security in Africa

Author: Ademola Abass
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199578986
Published In: September 2010
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Africa ? Disclaimer:
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First book to comprehensively examine all the issues undermining human security in Africa, with a specific focus on issues which are little known and under-analyzed, such as piracy and small arms
Interdisciplinary approach ensures all aspects of the threats to security are dealt with
Provides innovative insight on the current situation in Africa, relevant both to scholars and to practitioners and policy workers in the field

Protecting Human Security in Africa discusses some of the most potent threats to human security in Africa. It deals especially with those threats to the security of African people which are least understood or explored. In themes varying from corruption, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, food security, the devastation of internal displacement in Africa, the link between natural resources and human security, to the problems of forced labour, threats to women's security, and environmental security, the book examines the legal and policy challenges of protecting human security in Africa.

This work also analyses the role of NGOs and the civil society in advocating human security issues in Africa. It considers the role of regional human rights mechanisms and judicial bodies, such as the African Commission for Human Rights and the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, in seeking to guarantee human security in Africa. Finally, with particular reference to the Somalia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Darfur crises, the book studies the role of African regional organizations, especially the African Union, in protecting the human security of Africans.

Written by leading experts on its various themes, this is an indispensable book for all those seeking to learn more about the real challenges facing Africans and African organizations.

Readership: Scholars and students of human rights, development, peace and security, women's rights and Africa; personnel of NGOs working in Africa; government legal and policy officers dealing with Africa

Introduction
1: Ademola Abass: An Introduction to Protecting Human Security in Africa
Part I - Threats to Human Security in Africa
2: Opeoluwa Ogundokun: Food Security in Africa
3: Ilias Bantekas: Environmental Security in Africa
4: Kwesi Aning: Understanding the Nexus Between Human Security and Small Arms in Africa: the case of Ghana
5: Ben Chigara: The ILO and 'Human Security' of Sub-Saharan Africa Labour
6: Abiodun Alao: Natural Resource Management and Human Security in Africa
7: Efthymios Papastavridis: Piracy off Somalia: The 'Emperors and the Thieves of the Ocean' in the 21st Century
8: Maria O'Sullivan: Human Security and the Protection of Refugees in Africa
9: Manisuli Ssenyonjo: Human Rights of Women in Africa: A Prerequisite for Human Security
10: Ebenezer Durojaye: Corruption as a Threat to Human Security in Africa
Part II - Regional Institutions and Mechanisms
11: Ademola Abass: African Regional Organisations, African Peace and Security Architecture and the Protection of Human Security of Africans
12: Gino J. Naldi: The Role of the Human and Peoples' Rights Section of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights
13: Obiora Chinedu Okafor: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights as a Collective Human Security Resource: Promise, Performance, and Prospects
14: Rachel Murray: The Role of NGOs and Civil Society in Advancing Human Security in Africa
Conclusion
15: Ademola Abass: The Future of Human Security in Africa

Edited by Ademola Abass, Professor of International Law & Organizations, Brunel University

Ademola Abass is a Professor of International Law & Organizations at Brunel University, West London and Associate of the Conflict, Security Development Group (CSDG), King's College, London. He previously taught at the Universities of Reading, Nottingham and the West of England, as well as the European Masters in Human Rights and Democracy, University of Seville, Spain. He is a regular guest lecturer at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), among others. He was Africa Union's First Expert on Regional Mechanisms and had served as a consultant to many organisations including the European Commission and the UNAIDs. He was the Lead Expert Report Writer for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Ademola teaches and researches broadly in public international law, with particular interest in Collective Security Law, International Criminal Law, International Organisations, and Peace and Security.

Contributors:

Ademola Abass, Brunel University
Abiodun Alao, King's College London
Kwesi Aning, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
Ilias Bantekas, Brunel University
Ben Chigara, Brunel University
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Ebenezer Durojaye, University of the Free State in South Africa
Rachel Murray, University of Bristol
Gino Naldi, University of East Anglia
Marian O' Sullivan, Monash University
Opeoluwa Ogundokun, Matrix Solicitors
Efthymios Papastavridis, University College London
Manisuli Ssenyonjo, Brunel University

"To conclude, iProctecting Human Security in Africar - writ ten by personalities with rich expertise in their respective topics - lays a new ground for approaching certain of the threats to human security in the region." - Getahun A. Mosissa, LLM, Netherlands International Law Review