Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david j francis

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  • AFRICAN PEACE MILITARIES
    EDITED BY DAVID J. FRANCIS
    This book provides a critical understanding of the emerging role of African militaries in peacetime democratic Africa. This book departs from the dominant perspective which simply presents the military as an ‘enemy’ of democracy because of the history and legacy of unending military coup d’états and interventions in civilian politics. In the context of Africa, the military has ...

    $1,260.00

  • CIVIL MILITIA
    DAVID J. FRANCIS
    This volume critically engages with the phenomenon of civil militias in Africa, especially the nature of threats and challenges they pose to national and human security. It questions why the African political scene is increasingly inundated with the activities of civil militias, examines the socio-political and economic conditions that trigger and/or encourage and sustain the o...

    $1,240.00

  • UNITING AFRICA
    DAVID J. FRANCIS
    Plagued by bloody wars and armed conflicts, political instability, communal violence and displaced persons, and at the mercy of natural catastrophes such as drought and famine, it is not surprising that the Western press has long dismissed Africa as the 'hopeless continent'. In the face of these challenges, Africa today is faced with a stark choice: either unite or perish. The ...

    $1,320.00

  • WHEN WAR ENDS
    DAVID J. FRANCIS
    This volume critically examines what happens when war formally ends, the difficult and complex challenges and opportunities for winning the peace and reconciling divided communities. By reviewing a case study of the West African state of Sierra Leone, potential lessons for other parts of the world can be gained. Sierra Leone has emerged as a 'successful' model of liberal peaceb...

    $1,460.00