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Meaningful Consideration? A Review of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Decision Making
- S. Ellis
- Political Science
- 27 January 2010
In Canada’s Northwest Territories, governments, industrial corporations, and other organizations have tried many strategies to promote the meaningful consideration of traditional knowledge in…
The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War
- S. Ellis
- History
- 1 November 1999
Liberia has been one of Africa's most violent trouble spots. In 1990, when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women's clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid siege to…
The Criminalization of the State in Africa
This book examines the growth of fraud and smuggling in African states, the plundering of natural resources, the privatization of state institutions, the development of an economy of plunder and the…
The Role of Religion in Development: Towards a New Relationship between the European Union and Africa
The resilience of religion in developing countries is now plain to see. In Africa, religion shows no sign of disappearing or diminishing in public importance, as development theorists have generally…
West Africa's International Drug Trade
- S. Ellis
- Political Science
- 1 April 2009
Since the publication in 2007 of a report on West Africa's role in the illegal cocaine trade from Latin America to Europe, considerable media attention has focused on Guinea-Bissau in particular as a…
Liberia 1989-1994 : a study of ethnic and spiritual violence
- S. Ellis
- Political Science, History
- 1 April 1995
This article deals with the civil war which broke out in Liberia on 24 December 1989, when 100 or more fighters claiming allegiance to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), led by Charles…
The historical significance of South Africa's third force
- S. Ellis
- Political Science
- 1 June 1998
Accounts of South Africa's transition from apartheid differ markedly in the role they attribute to violence. The most influential narratives of negotiations tend to portray the violence of the…
Religion and Politics in Africa
All religion is based on a belief in the existence of invisible forces which influence human destiny. So important is belief of this sort in contemporary thought, the authors argue, that many…
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