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Africa : facing human security challenges in the 21st century / Tatah Mentan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mentan, Tatah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Africa.
- Human rights.
- Civil rights--Africa.
- Civil rights.
- Human security--Africa.
- Human security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (580 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Africaís dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversityófrom conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and interconnected world, millions of people worldwide are affected by some form of human insecurity. Infectious and parasitic diseases annually kill millions.
- Contents:
- Part I. Prologue, introduction and conceptual considerations. Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing globalization, hegemony, and human (in)security. Part II. Challenges of human security in Africa. Chapter 3. Economic (in)security
- Chapter 4. Food and nutrition security
- Chapter 5. Environmental challenges to human security
- Chapter 6. Globalization and challenges of political insecurity in Africa
- Chapter 7. Challenges to health security
- Chapter 8. Cultural insecurity in Africa today
- Chapter 9. Personal/citizen insecurity in Africa
- Chapter 10. Social insecurity in Africa: challenges and prospects. Part III. Epilogue: review, conclusions, and looking ahead. Chapter 12. Review of the past and present, conclusions and looking ahead.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 13, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9789956792368
- 9956792365
- OCLC:
- 885455985
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