Institutional development
- Kenya's new constitution and conflict transformation
- B Mkangi / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2012
- The 2007/8 post-election conflict that engulfed Kenya was not unprecedented. A failure to address the root causes of these violent conflicts has occasioned their re-occurrence and further entrenched t...
- Liberia: the 2011 elections and building peace in the fragile state
- L. Gberie / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2010
- Liberia holds its second post-war presidential and legislative elections in October 2011. The first, held in 2005 was the first free and fair elections in the country’s long history and it usher...
- Elections and accountability in South Africa
- C. Schulz-Herzenberg (ed) / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2009
- Allowing citizens to decide whether or not to extend a government’stenure through regular elections is the principal mechanism of politicalaccountability. It compels politicians to be more respo...
- Corruption and governance in the DRC during the transition period 2003-2006
- M. Kodi / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2008
- In spite of the devastation that has been visited on the DR Congo elections were held in 2006 and at the beginning of 2007, thus putting an end to a long political transition and raising the hopes ...
- Natural resources conflict: management processes and strategies in Africa
- P.A.N. Mwanika / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2010
- This brief paper argues that environmental degradation in forms such as desertification, resource depletion and demographic pressure exacerbates tensions and instability. The paper particularly foc...
- The criminal justice system in Zambia. enhancing the delivery of security in Africa
- Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2009
- This paper reviews the Zambian criminal justice system and draws attention to the need for reforms in that will enhance human security. It notes that Zambia has made great progress since the re-establ...
- The Somalia Conflict: implications for peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts
- S.A. Dersso / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2009
- This paper analyses how the root causes, changing dynamics and nature of the Somali conflict impact upon ongoing efforts of the international community for peacemaking and peacekeeping. It identifi...
- Peacekeeping and post-conflict criminality. Challenges to the (re-) establishment of rule of law in Liberia
- T. Mbadlanyana;F. C. Onuoha / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2009
- This paper explores the scope and nature of criminality in Liberia, and assesses the UN’s peacekeeping operations in the country. The authors detail that the research is framed around the theme ...
- Security sector reform in Zimbabwe: what, why and how?
- C. Hendricks;L. Hutton / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2009
- On the 15th of September 2008, a power-sharing agreement was brokered between the major political parties in Zimbabwe, namely, the Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), the Mutamba...
- Peacekeeping in Africa
- T. Neethling;J. Terrie;H. Boshoff / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2009
- This book gives a review of the African States faced with conflicts and armed rebellions. It suggests that the spread of arms and the resulting armed violence undermine good governance in Africa mo...
