Everyday insecurity and its visualisation

Agyei, Prince; Möller, Frank

doi:10.1080/21624887.2019.1667679

Critical Studies on Security

2019

DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2019.1667679

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Everyday insecurity and its visualisation

Prince Agyei

Frank Möller

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“…Even Islamic radicalism that was hitherto deemed distant and confined to certain geographical areas such as the Sahel region has made its way into the country (Aning & Abdallah, 2013). This does not however, constitute a complete revocation of Ghana’s peacefulness, I argue, it rather situates an appreciation of and an understanding of peace that deviates from both peace as an absence of war and peace as an absence of all forms of violence and underscores the potential existence of violent interactions in the margins of everyday lives even in peaceful situations (see, Agyei & Möller, 2019).…”

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Behind the intractability of communal conflicts in Africa: The case of the Nkonya–Alavanyo conflict in Ghana.

Agyei

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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In this article, I move away from the rather active and bloodier conflicts to which there exists significant academic literature to the rarely researched, less bloody and latent communal violence. Based on archival documents and in-depth semistructured interviews conducted in Ghana with analysis of transcript following a thematic approach, I examine from the perspective of the Nkonyas, the intractability of the Nkonya-Alavanyo conflict in Ghana, which, despite many attempts at resolution, persists for almost a century. The findings suggest that, in the view of the Nkonyas, the conflict remains insoluble due to (1) the nonexecution of the various courts' judgments in their favour, (2) the lack of punitive measures against violators of the law, (3) the nature of the conflict resolution mechanisms practised, (4) greed of the Alavanyos and ( 5) the political undertones that underpin the conflict. Public Significance StatementWith such understanding of the conflict, I bring to fore, the reasons behind the insolubility of the Nkonya-Alavanyo conflict from the standpoint of disputants which is hugely unexplored not just in the communal violence in Africa in general but also, in Peace and Conflict studies. Secondly, I use this article to emphasise the need for re-thinking and rejuvenation in the discussions around the transformation and resolution of this conflict considering the findings. Thirdly, I draw attention to the quantitative imbalance on communal violence literature relative to latent and less bloody forms of conflict. Finally, I present this article as a reference point for further studies that will lead to a deeper deconstruction of not only the Nkonya-Alavanyo conflict but also similar communal conflicts in Africa and their ultimate resolutions.

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Behind the intractability of communal conflicts in Africa: The case of the Nkonya–Alavanyo conflict in Ghana.

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2021

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‘Newsworthy victims’: The killing of Maxwell Mahama and the culture of lynching in Ghana

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2020

Journal of Applied Journalism &Amp; Media Studies

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Following the 2017 killing of Maxwell Adam Mahama by a lynch mob in Ghana, this article engages with the subject of lynching in Ghana through a content analysis of newsmedia items relating to the practice. While reactions to Mahama’s killing invite optimism that lynching as a form of instant (in)justice is being problematized in Ghana, this study leads to a less optimistic position. State, media and public responses to Mahama’s killing were compared vis-à-vis similar killings of two police officers – Jerry Wornoo and Richard Owusu-Sekyere – in 1998. Drawing on the relevant literature, this study concluded that a number of factors combined to make Mahama, Wornoo and Owusu-Sekyere ‘newsworthy victims’. In contrast, victims in several lynching cases reported by Ghanaian media between 1999 and May 2017 were not deemed newsworthy, thus attracting less attention. Consequently, there have been missed opportunities following the Wornoo and Owusu-Sekyere killings to make critical systemic interventions in Ghana to prevent lynching. Hence, it is argued, the mere sensationalization of Mahama’s lynching may not trigger the requisite systemic social change. Recommendations are made to harness the momentum from Mahama’s killing to address instant (in)justice.

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Everyday insecurity and its visualisation

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Behind the intractability of communal conflicts in Africa: The case of the Nkonya–Alavanyo conflict in Ghana.

Behind the intractability of communal conflicts in Africa: The case of the Nkonya–Alavanyo conflict in Ghana.

‘Newsworthy victims’: The killing of Maxwell Mahama and the culture of lynching in Ghana

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