http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5326 2013-05-22T10:38:36Z 2013-05-22T10:38:36Z Wilson, J. Zoe http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5336 2009-11-19T20:40:45Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

PARADOXES AND DILEMMAS OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LIVELIHOODS IN RURAL WAR-TORN ANGOLA Wilson, J. Zoe This case study1 critiques the conceptual architecture of a United Nations peacebuilding project called the Human Rights Committee (HRC) and suggests areas of further research and potential action to identify mismatches between local context and institution-building efforts that generate disempowering government structures. The committees were designed for implementation in Angola’s war-torn provinces as peace loomed uncertainly in early 2001. The case study assesses the information available in April 2001,2 and on this basis forecasts how the Committee was set to affect lives and livelihoods, if it was to operate as planned. In the sections below, the study considers three ‘snapshots’ of the small semiurban city of Uige, capital of Angola’s northern Uige province: formal political institutions; informal landscapes; and how these were imagined in the documents and processes of the Human Rights Committee. The paper asks, ‘what are the implications associated with how well the three fit?’ Findings are presented in six parts. First there is a brief description of the HRC and how various implementers viewed it. Second is a portrait of the capital city of Uige during Angola’s 30-year civil war and the massive displacement of its citizens that followed it. Third is a sketch of the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ political and civic landscapes of Uige. The fourth section describes how the HRC valued and sought to interact with both the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ political dimensions of Uige. The fifth section examines the finding that the Committee resembled a top-down, externally driven, state-building project premised on values that were ostensibly universal rather than on vetted knowledge. Concluding suggestions are discussed in the context of the complex relationship between state and society in Angola and the challenges for development.

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Temin, Jonathan Hill, Richard http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5335 2009-11-19T23:22:21Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Temin, Jonathan; Hill, Richard

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tandon, Yash http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5334 2009-11-18T23:19:19Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

ECONOMIC POLICY AND CONFLICT IN AFRICA Tandon, Yash The essay seeks to explore the link between economic policy and conflict in Africa, locating the analysis within the global systemic paradigm rather than using the narrower nationand ethnicity-oriented paradigms. The analysis distinguishes between economic resources and economic policy. It argues that although in Africa (as in most parts of the Third World) direct control over economic resources is still the main objective of the major international actors, there is a major shift towards the control over economic policy as a means to control the resources, and now increasingly towards the control of the African state itself. This distinction between economic resources and economic policy helps to explain why there is so much emphasis these days on matters of democracy, good governance, the rule of law, corruption, and other such instruments of state policy and practice.

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sadomba, Frederick Albert Dzinesa, Gwinyayi http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5333 2009-11-19T19:52:53Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

IDENTITY AND EXCLUSION IN THE POST-WAR ERA: ZIMBABWE’S WOMEN FORMER FREEDOM FIGHTERS Sadomba, Frederick; Albert Dzinesa, Gwinyayi This study examines how demobilisation and reintegration processes affected the roles and status of women ex-combatants after the liberation war in Zimbabwe. The success of post-war demobilisation and reintegration depends on the formulation and implementation of programmes that recognise the contributions of women and treat them as a differentiated mass with specific aspirations. In disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) processes after most wars, the roles of women in the conflicts and their post-war needs are ignored or not adequately addressed. Their critical roles and contributions in the conflict and its resolution are rarely recognised. The vital contribution that women fighters made in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle between 1962 and 1979 has gone largely unsung. Through extensive interviews with female ex-combatants, this article argues that the absence of a gender-sensitive demobilisation and reintegration policy resulted in the marginalisation and exclusion of women ex-combatants in the military, social, political and professional spheres. What then, it asks, are the lessons that can be learnt from Zimbabwe’s experience of demobilisation and reintegration?

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z JPD http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5332 2009-11-20T17:51:35Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

RESOURCES JPD

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Pajibo, Ezekiel http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5331 2009-11-20T17:13:11Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN LIBERIA Pajibo, Ezekiel

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z GLOBAL WITNESS AND PARTNERSHIP CANADA AFRICA http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5330 2009-11-23T17:12:04Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

THE KEY TO KIMBERLEY: INTERNAL DIAMOND CONTROLS GLOBAL WITNESS AND PARTNERSHIP CANADA AFRICA

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Bond, Patrick http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5329 2009-11-17T23:01:17Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENT: IS NEPAD ALREADY PASSÉ? Bond, Patrick

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z