Farewell To The Great Loon
Written by WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Saturday, 22 October 2011 06:44 Africa’s King of Kings, the Sword of Islam, the Guide of the People and the Great Loon of Libya is...
Nigeria – Ensuring [un] Rule of Law
Written by BALA MOHAMMED LIMAN Friday, 21 October 2011 08:28 The current crisis in the Nigerian Judiciary is indicative of the failure of the executive arm of government to allow...
Libya is a Mass of Contradictions
Written by PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR Tuesday, 04 October 2011 07:22 However history judges the meaning of the current events in Libya, one conclusion might be hard to dismiss: that the...
Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Libya: Possibilities and Probabilities
Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Tuesday, 04 October 2011 07:14 As the agenda in Libya now decisively shifts to thinking about, different scenarios paint variously optimistic and pessimistic pictures. Roland...
Rebuilding a ‘New’ Libya and Implications for International Politics
BY DR. AYLA GÖL** | 13.09.2011 We [the NTC] request from the international community to fulfil its obligations to protect the Libyan people from any further genocide and crimes against...
Libya: Human Security Challenges
BY PROF. ALAN HUNTER** | 11.09.2011 Human Security conceptualisation analyses the interface between security, development and intervention. Traditionally, 'security' mostly referred to the security of nation-states in the context of...
Post-Gaddafi Reconstruction of Libya
BY PROF. ALPASLAN OZERDEM** | 11.09.2011 On 19 August 2011, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, Vice-Chairman of National Transition Council (NTC), the rebel group fighting against the Colonel Gaddafi regime in Libya...
State Failure and Civil Society Potential: Reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
BY VERITY MOULD** | 06.09.2011 Introduction Between 1998 and 2007, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resulted in the deaths of 5.4 million people; a death toll...
Remembering the Past and Reconciling for the Future:
The Role of Indigenous Commemorative Practices in Sierra Leone* BY DR. STEVEN KAINDANEH** | 06.09.2011 Introduction Scholars have taken a keen interest in the study of war commemoration and its...
Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflicts, and Secessionism in Ethiopian Politics
BY BEZAWIT BEYENE** | 19.08.2011 Theoretical Overview Ethnicity is one aspect of identity around which people organise themselves; it is often the core element by which people mobilize and seek...
Libya – 100 Days On
By Prof. STEFAN WOLFF | 30.06.2011 On 27 March 2011, NATO launched Operation Unified Protector to protect civilians in Libya under (the threat of) military attack by forces loyal to the regime...
The Revolt in North Africa in Global Perspective:
How Neoliberal Policies Triggered Widespread Poverty and Unemployment, and Perhaps an Arab ‘Caracazo’* BY PROF. BULENT GOKAY** | 08.06.2011 On 17 December 2010, a 26-year-old man named Mohammed Bouaziz poured...
DDR: Niger Delta and Sri Lanka: Smoke and Mirrors?
BY DESMOND MOLLOY** | 07.06.2011 In the early summer of 2009, both Nigeria and Sri Lanka launched Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) processes; Nigeria to address the activities of armed...
Reflections on Violence and Nonviolence in the Arab Uprisings
BY DR. GUY BURTON | 11.04.2011 Following the overthrow of the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents in the last two months, the Arab uprisings appear to have stalled. Across the Middle East,...
The Sociolinguistics of a Nollywood Movie
Dr. Emmanuel Adedayo Adedun | 11 October 2010 This article demonstrates that the use of English in Nigerian (Nollywood) movies is linguicist. Linguicism is a terminology coined by Phillipson to...