Author : Kathleen Klaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1108488501
An analysis of land and natural resource conflict as a source of political violence, focusing on election violence in Kenya.
Author : Meshack Simati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781032174600
This book explores the effect of the judiciary on the incidence of post-election violence by political actors across Africa and within African countries. It examines how variation in judicial independence can constrain or incentivize election violence among democratizing states. Using case studies and cross-national analysis, the book shows that variation in levels of judicial independence from a non-independent judiciary to a quasi-independent judiciary or from a fully independent judiciary to quasi-independent judiciary increases the likelihood of strategic use of post-election violence by non-state actors. However, the likelihood of post-election violence is significantly reduced in non-independent judiciaries or once countries' judiciaries become fully independent. The author makes the theoretical argument that, within unconsolidated states, non-state actors that view the judiciary as semi-independent are more likely to engage in post-election violence with the purpose of creating political and professional uncertainty in order to influence assertive behaviour from judges in disputed elections. Consequently, the book argues that semi-independent judiciaries or judiciaries that are neither fully controlled by the incumbent nor fully independent from the incumbent can help explain post-election violence among unconsolidated states, all else being equal. This book will be of interest to scholars of election violence, democratic politics, law and politics and African politics.
Author : Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786992310
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent’s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence following disputed results. While the consequences of such violence can be profound, undermining the legitimacy of the democratic process and in some cases plunging countries into civil war or renewed dictatorship, little is known about the causes. By mapping, analysing and comparing instances of election violence in different localities across Africa – including Kenya, Ivory Coast and Uganda – this collection of detailed case studies sheds light on the underlying dynamics and sub-national causes behind electoral conflicts, revealing them to be the result of a complex interplay between democratisation and the older, patronage-based system of ‘Big Man’ politics. Essential for scholars and policymakers across the social sciences and humanities interested in democratization, peace-keeping and peace studies, Violence in African Elections provides important insights into why some communities prove more prone to electoral violence than others, offering practical suggestions for preventing violence through improved electoral monitoring, voter education, and international assistance.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Human rights
ISBN :
This report documents post-election violence that took place immediately following the general election of 2000. The excesses of army personnel are documented in various newspaper reports reproduced in this document.
Author : Dorina Akosua Oduraa Bekoe
Publisher : United States Institute of Peace Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781601271365
Nine contributors offer pioneering work on the scope and nature of electoral violence in Africa; investigate the forms electoral violence takes; and analyze the factors that precipitate, reduce, and prevent violence. The book breaks new ground with findings from the only known dataset of electoral violence in sub-Saharan Africa, spanning 1990 to 2008. Specific case studies of electoral violence in countries such as Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria provide the context to further understanding the circumstances under which electoral violence takes place, recedes, or recurs.
Author : Sosteness Francis Materu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9462650411
Since the historic Nuremberg Trial of 1945 an international customary law principle has developed that commission of a core crime under international law – war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and aggression – should not go unpunished. History shows, that when in Africa such violations occurred, especially as a result of election disputes, national and regional actors, including the African Union, resorted to political rather than legal responses. However, when crimes against humanity were alleged to have been committed in Kenya during the 2007-2008 post-election violence, a promising road map for criminal accountability was agreed upon alongside a political solution. In the spirit of this road map, the author analyzes the post-election violence in Kenya from a legal point of view. He extensively examines legal options for domestic criminal accountability and discusses both retributive (prosecutions) and restorative justice (mainly truth commission) mechanisms, being the main legal responses to the gross violations of human rights. Furthermore, he thoroughly investigates the Kenya situation before the ICC and the legal-cum-political responses to the ICC intervention in Kenya. Practitioners and academics in the field of international criminal law and related disciplines, as well as political sciences and (legal) history will find in this book highly relevant information about alternative legal approaches of the fight against and punishment of crimes against humanity, as defined under the ICC Statute.
Author : Godwin R. Murunga
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789171066947
Author : Stephanie M. Burchard
Publisher :
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781626375406
Author : Bhojraj Pokharel
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Elections
ISBN : 9781601277480
Author : Binaifer Nowrojee
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564321176
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