To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines
To Walk Without Fear is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the global movement to ban landmines. It brings together leading academics, senior policy makers, and prominent leaders of NGOs to examine and draw lessons from the ‘Ottawa Process’, which culminated in December 1997 when over 120 states signed a convention to ban the use, […]
Disarmament And Defence Industrial Adjustment In South Africa
The South African defence industry, built up during the apartheid years and during the UN embargoes on sales of arms to South Africa, became one of the most important sectors of the country’s industrial base and a significant exporter. Since the end of apartheid, the end of the cold war and the elections of 1994, […]
Civil Wars, Civil Peace: An Introduction to Conflict Resolution
As the dawn of a new millennium approaches, serious questions need to be raised regarding the nature of ‘civilised’ humanity and human beings’ capacity to harm each other in ways as systematic as they are vile. This raises a deeper, existential question: ‘Does man’s capacity to hate have no limits and will the conflagration ignited […]
AJCR Volume 01 No. 1, 1999
Conflict Trends 1999/1
Editorial By Hussein Solomon Conflict Watch Renaissance Barometer By Hussein Solomon & James Mackalaire Conflict, development & peace in Africa Gender perspectives By Laketch Dirasse Peacekeeping in the DRC A new role for the United Nations By Cedric de Coning The White Paper on South Africa’s participation in Peace Missions A unique beginning By Cedric […]