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Africa

DDR: Niger Delta and Sri Lanka: Smoke and Mirrors?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

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...

Africa

Reflections on Violence and Nonviolence in the Arab Uprisings

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

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,...

Africa

The Sociolinguistics of a Nollywood Movie

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

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...

Africa

Cameroon’s Golden Anniversary of Independence: Anything to Celebrate?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Prof. Alpaslan Ozerdem | 01 June 2010 As is the case for 16 other African countries, this year is the 50th anniversary of independence for Cameroon. The year of 1960 was a...

Africa

President Goodluck Jonathan and Nigeria’s Frail Democracy

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

By Chris, M. A. Kwaja | 03 October 2010 The death of the Late President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar'adua on Wednesday,...

Africa

2010 World Cup not for all Africans

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

By Thembisa Fakude |15 April 2010 In May 2002, the Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa) decided to rotate the hosting of the World Cup tournament to a different continent every...

Africa

Nigeria: The urgent need for strategic leadership

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

By Phillip Eyam-Ozung | 24 March 2010 The real implication of modern globalization reducing the world into a global village is that every inch of the global space has...

Africa

The Sarkozy technique

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Kaye Whiteman 04 March 2010 I make no apology for returning again to the subject of France in Africa. Last week, I brought it in to my...

Africa

‘We have to find the courage to celebrate our diversity’ Kofi Annan

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

01 March 2010 When Nelson Mandela walked to freedom 20 years ago, he re-entered a society seemingly irreversibly split by the evil of apartheid. An explosion of violence,...

Africa

The Day De Klerk Changed the Course of History

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

F. W. de Klerk 02 February 2010 One of the questions I am invariably asked in international interviews is whether a Damascene conversion led me to initiate the changes...

Africa

Two Years to Self Destruct in Sudan

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

John Norris Imagine if we had enjoyed the luxury of knowing, two years before it happened, that Yugoslavia would disintegrate in 1991. Or just think if U.S. diplomats had been...

Africa

The Most Dangerous Place in the World

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Jeffrey Gettleman when you land at Mogadishu’s international airport, the first form you fill out asks for name, address, and caliber of weapon. Believe it or not, this disaster...

Genel

Africa Programme

CESRAN Int.31 March 201420 November 2014

Africa is the center of attention today. Not only traditional powers like France, UK, Russia and US are so keen to revive and re-structure their relations with the African countries;...

Americas

The Renewed Federalism and Its Effects on The Representation of Women in Mexico.

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Representation is an essential part of a democratic regime and if representation is to be considered an intrinsic element of democracy, no system can claim to be democratic if it...

Americas

Mexico 2012: The six-year Presidential term that awaits us

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Last July 1 there took place presidential and parliamentarian elections in Mexico. Enrique Peña Nieto was elected, the candidate of the formerly hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that after eighty...