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A Forest of Memories: Trauma and the Biafran Identity in Post-colonial Nigeria

The Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 occasioned the Igbo pogrom and the lingering memory of starvation as a weapon of war.

Ngozika Obi-Ani Ngozika Obi-Ani

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Nonviolence and Religion

du Toit, Louise, Ephraim Meir, Ed Noort and Wolfgang Palaver. Eds.. 2023. Nonviolence and Religion. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3...

Louise du Toit Louise du Toit Wolfgang Palaver Wolfgang Palaver Ed Noort Ed Noort Ephraim Meir Ephraim Meir

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African Peacekeeping

Fisher, Jonathan, and Nina Wilén. 2022. African Peacekeeping. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582179  

Jonathan Fisher Jonathan Fisher

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Adaptive Peace: Insights from Complexity for Strengthening the Resilience and Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems

Complexity theory offers new ways of understanding how social-ecological systems function under pressure, for example how climate change related stressors may exacerbate competition over scarce resources or limit livelihood options.

Cedric de Coning Cedric de Coning

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Gandhi’s Militant Nonviolence in the Light of Girard’s Mimetic Anthropology

Palaver, Wolfgang. 2021. Gandhi’s Militant Nonviolence in the Light of Girard’s Mimetic Anthropology. Religions, 12(11), 988. https://doi.or...

Wolfgang Palaver Wolfgang Palaver

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War by Agreement: A Reflection on the Nature of Just War

Okeja, Uchena. 2019. War by Agreement: A Reflection on the Nature of Just War. Journal of Military Ethics, 18(3), 189–203. https://doi.org/1...

Uchenna Okeja Uchenna Okeja

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Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Toward Remedies

Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2018. “Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Toward Remedies.” In G. Muschert, B. Klocke, R. Perrucci, J. Shefner, K. B...

Joachim Savelsberg Joachim Savelsberg

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Managing cities and resolving conflicts: Local people’s attitudes towards urban planning in Kumasi, Ghana

Cobbinah, Patrick B. 2017. Managing cities and resolving conflicts: Local people’s attitudes towards urban planning in Kumasi, Ghana. Land U...

Patrick Cobbinah Patrick Cobbinah

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The role of international law in the settlement of conflict: Apartheid South Africa, Namibia and Palestine

This study concerns the question whether the manner in which international law informed political consensus in South Africa and Namibia is of relevance to the settlement of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

John Dugard John Dugard