http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5326 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:29:31 GMT 2013-05-19T20:29:31Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5336 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. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5336 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5335 A WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Temin, Jonathan; Hill, Richard Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5335 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5334 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. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5334 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5333 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? Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5333 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5332 RESOURCES JPD Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5332 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5331 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN LIBERIA Pajibo, Ezekiel Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5331 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5330 THE KEY TO KIMBERLEY: INTERNAL DIAMOND CONTROLS GLOBAL WITNESS AND PARTNERSHIP CANADA AFRICA Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5330 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5329 AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENT: IS NEPAD ALREADY PASSÉ? Bond, Patrick Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5329 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z