Terrorism and Africa

Cilliers, Jakkie

doi:10.1080/10246029.2003.9627255

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“…In their seminal study, The criminalization of the African state, Bayart, Ellis and Hibou observe, "… politics in Africa is becoming markedly interconnected with crime". 26 Christopher Clapham argues that the activities normally associated with states (such as trading and waging war) are often exercised by non-state actors on the territory of the formal African state. 27 To compound matters still further, those monopolising political power (and resources) in the state often belong to a particular ethnic, racial or religious identity.…”

Section: Problematising the African Statementioning

confidence: 99%

African Solutions to Africa’s Problems? African Approaches to Peace, Security and Stability

Solomon

2015

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Africa, with its combination of fragile governments and institutions, abject poverty amid great resources, wealth and a legacy of incessant violent conflict, has increasingly become integrated into the global security architecture. With growing globalisation, insecurity anywhere is a threat to security everywhere. Given this context, Africa's own insecurity is serving as a source of concern for the United States and other global powers. Africa is plagued by a broad spectrum of traditional and non-traditional security threats on the one hand, and yet, as will be seen in this article, home to an emerging regional and international security consciousness and activism on the other. It was the purpose of the study on which this article reports, to examine African approaches to ensure peace, security and stability on the continent at national, sub-regional and regional level. The African Union's (AU) approach to the promotion of peace and security on the continent can be described as a constructivist-inspired cooperative security approach, and it will be demonstrated that sub-regional organisations are very important security enforcing actors in the African security architecture.

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Section: Problematising the African Statementioning

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African Solutions to Africa’s Problems? African Approaches to Peace, Security and Stability

Solomon

2015

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“…17 In any event, 9/11 did serve to alert the world to the dangers of globalised terror given that as Bassioni had noted earlier, "the manifestations of terrorism and the means to prevent and control them have long been studied but governments have tended to ignore the dangers." 18 Legal commentators have always pointed to the political aim of terrorism and Hoffman's definition-that terrorism is "thus violence-or equally important, the threat of violence-used and directed in pursuit of, or in service of, a political aim [8]" 19 captures this well. Cassesse expanded the commentary, suggesting that international terrorism could be construed in three ways: either as a war crime, or a crime against humanity, or in the alternative, a discrete crime (when the acts do not fall under the category of war crimes or crimes against humanity) [9].…”

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“…58 However, the difficulties examined as between two highly developed systems, the US and the UK pale into insignificance when States with weak legal, social and political structures, are assessed for their capacity for bilateral or regional containment of terrorism. Plagued by internal conflicts, proliferation of and black market trade in, arms and ammunitions, insecure borders, poverty, a corrupt public service system, civil unrest and poor human rights protection, countries with these records which include many countries in Africa [18] 59 , and in Asia [19] 60 , are not only fertile ground for terrorists but individually, may not be able to offer an effective legal system for addressing the threats of terrorist activity.…”

Section: Challenges: Extradition and Human Rights-the Uk-us Post 9/11mentioning

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The 21st Century Terrorist: Hostis Humani Generis?

Ezeani¹

2012

BLR

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Some argue that 21st century terrorism is no different from the past. This paper argues otherwise. It considers that our social response—The revulsion against the frequent violation of the sanctity of human life and the indiscriminate destruction of property death—Ought to be the most important factor in any attempt to categorise terrorists under international criminal law. Such a proper categorisation is as common enemies of mankind. Part 1 revisits the challenge of definition and of jurisdiction; Part 2 examines the current approaches to terrorism—Domestic, bilateral and international; and Part 3 concludes the argument whether the 21st century terrorist is a common enemy of mankind. The need for alternative social responses if the roots of modern terrorism are to be addressed is also examined

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“…Most postcolonial African nations embraced the colonial statecraft ideology of undermining the rights of occupied citizens (Dickson, 1989). Early manifestations of this misrule became evident in a series of coups and counter-coups in sub-Saharan Africa (Ciliers, 2003). The continental leadership of the African Union (2004) is concerned with the international variants of terrorism, while subnational and state terrorism, such as corrupt leadership is more critical to Africa.…”

Section: Terrorism As a Postcolonial Conflict Of Social And Economic mentioning

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Local Neocolonialism and Terrorism in Africa

Ejiogu

Mosley

2017

SAGE Open

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This study examines the critical nature and the difficulties associated with understanding the fundamental ideology of the postcolonial wave of new terrorism on the African continent. This is facilitated through a contemporary interpretation of elite dominant economic and political structures and their role in the transformation and activation of latent ideologies of socioeconomic liberation. The consequences of the interaction of these dominance structures in the society are examined as a colonial legacy, which predicts and domiciles a state of international dependency and a culture of corruption within postcolonial African states. The remedy for this practice is discussed as a function of good governance and is based on the expansion of communication, socioeconomic opportunities, and social mobility.

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Terrorism and Africa

Cited by 31 publications

References 2 publications

African Solutions to Africa’s Problems? African Approaches to Peace, Security and Stability

African Solutions to Africa’s Problems? African Approaches to Peace, Security and Stability

The 21st Century Terrorist: Hostis Humani Generis?

Local Neocolonialism and Terrorism in Africa

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