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Roach, Kent; Hor, Michael; Ramraj, Victor V.; Williams, Gail M.

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“…While the resolution directed member states to step-up their counter-terrorism efforts, it did not provide a framework to define what constitutes an act of terrorism. Roach et al (2012) note that this has left individual nations to define terrorism according to their contextual concerns. This approach is not unexpected given how international counter-terrorism law and policy involve multiple layers of actors and stakeholders as well as "interplay between international, regional and domestic sources of law" (Roach, Hor, Ramaj, & Williams, 2012, p. 3).…”

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Counter-terrorism in Ethiopia: manufacturing insecurity, monopolizing speech

Workneh¹

2019

Internet Policy Review

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For nearly three decades, Ethiopia's current ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has maintained its power through a highly centralized, vanguard party system. Recently, the Ethiopian government has extensively used the provisions of the Ethiopian Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (EATP) to prosecute several Ethiopian citizens and organizations that are critical of the ruling party. By framing the adoption and execution of the EATP as an outcome of EPRDF's long-term hegemonic project coalesced in neopatrimonialism, this paper demonstrates how the Ethiopian State has created a rationallegal bureaucracy that exploits terrorism narratives to stifle critical speech on digital as well as traditional media. The result is the making of an online public that is unsure of what could be considered as a "terrorist" message as opposed to "normal" speech, who, in an attempt to not take the risk altogether, may avoid participating in political discourse. While the disbandment of the neopatrimonial order is key in dislodging Ethiopia's legislative bottlenecks to civic liberties, a more urgent task calls for a move toward participatory, inclusive, and equitable Internet policy framework.

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Counter-terrorism in Ethiopia: manufacturing insecurity, monopolizing speech

Workneh¹

2019

Internet Policy Review

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“…29 Thus, many have asserted that the Security Council has left the definition of terrorism to individual governments. 30 Similarly, others observe that the imposition of an obligation on a state to criminalize a 'terrorist' act without providing a definition or guideline means authorizing a state to "define terrorism according to its own history, objectives and concerns" 31 which permits a range of overbroad definitions. Guillaume upholds a similar view and argues that requiring states to take measures against terrorism, without defining it, enables states to make "unilateral interpretations geared towards their own interests."…”

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The Scope of Definition of a Terrorist Act under Ethiopian Law: Appraisal of its Compatibility with Regional and International Counterterrorism Instruments

Kassa

2015

Miz Law Rev

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While regional and international human rights institutions claim that the definition of a terrorist act under the Anti-terrorism Proclamation No. 652/2009 is overly broad as a result of which citizens not involved in a genuinely terrorist act are prosecuted and jailed, the Ethiopian government defends the law pointing that it is borrowed from jurisdictions with advanced legal system and rule of law. This article is concerned with this debate and suggests how to deal with it. The article employs definitions under relevant regional and international counterterrorism legal instruments as standard to examine the scope of the domestic definition. With regard to some of its elements, the proclamation's definition is broader than the standard definitions; in other aspects it is narrower. The regional and international instruments simply indicate what states should proscribe as a terrorist act without further prohibiting them from including other conduct with in domestic definitions. As such, being broader per se does not render the definition incompatible with regional and international definitions. On areas where the definition is narrower, its strict application would mean non-prosecution or, in the event of prosecution, acquittal of persons who would have been treated as terrorist under regional and international law. This has a direct bearing on Ethiopia's counterterrorism obligation.

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“…23 Art and Richardson 2007b, 1; Cf. Nacos 2006, 166;Roach et al 2012, 1 ('By anti-terrorism law and policy, then, we mean not only efforts to empower governments to prevent and respond to terrorism, but the corresponding need to constrain abuses of those powers'); Silke 2019b, 8 ('The policies, strategies and tactics that states use to combat terrorism and deal with its consequences are referred to as counterterrorism'). 24 Pillar 2001, 18. In subsequent chapters of his book, it becomes clear that he works with a much more narrow understanding of counterterrorism.…”

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Ordering terror, terrorizing order

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The publication may also be distributed here under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the "Taverne" license. More information can be found on the University of Groningen website: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/self-archiving-pure/taverneamendment. Security and securitization3.4.1 A brief genealogy: security as a situated and contingent practice 3.4.2 Critical security studies: discourse and emancipation 3.4.3 Conceptualizing danger and countermeasures 3.5 Methodology and method 3.5.1 Research design 3.5.2 Sources 3.5.3 Methodological principles 3.6 Conclusion Chapter 4 Unpacking international terrorism: the European Community's emergent stake in tackling terrorism, 1972-1986 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Locating a new form of violence 4.2.1 From acts of discovery to acts of appropriation 4.2.2 Violence, authority, morality and the spectre of systemic collapse 4.2.3 International terrorism, borders and modernity 4.3 Knowing across borders: Trevi and the exchange of information 4.3.1 Situating Trevi 4.3.2 Conflicting knowledges in governing counterterrorism cooperation 4.3.3 Beyond intergovernmental counterterrorism cooperation 4.4 Legal initiatives concerning extradition 4.4.1 Extradition and the political offence exemption 4.4.2 Securing the rule of law internationally amidst concerns over sovereignty 4.4.3 Competing visions of harm and response 4.5 Foreign policy and the disciplining of state sponsors of terrorism 4.5.1 Prompting European Political Cooperation in a counterterrorism role 4.5.2 The naming and shaming of Libya and Syria 4.5.3 A selective practice: the use of the state sponsorship label 4.6 Conclusion Chapter 5 Strategizing counterterrorism: from ad hoc to continuous and prudential government, the 1990s and 2001-2015 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Making sense of the 11 September 2001 attacks 5.2.1 Discursive precedents: the EU's terrorism discourse during the 1990s 5.2.2 Forging a transatlantic community of grief: condemnations of the

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Introduction

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Counter-terrorism in Ethiopia: manufacturing insecurity, monopolizing speech

Counter-terrorism in Ethiopia: manufacturing insecurity, monopolizing speech

The Scope of Definition of a Terrorist Act under Ethiopian Law: Appraisal of its Compatibility with Regional and International Counterterrorism Instruments

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