1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797632903321

Titolo

Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-253-01750-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

170.96

Soggetti

Good and evil

Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-



Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910799948703321

Autore

Al O'ran Mutayyam <1972->

Titolo

Jordanian-Israeli relations [[electronic resource] ] : the peacebuilding experience / / Mutayyam al O'ran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-134-07249-X

1-281-83786-5

9786611837860

0-203-88692-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics

Disciplina

327.569505694

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Peace

Jordan Foreign relations Israel

Israel Foreign relations Jordan

Jordan Politics and government 1999-

Israel Politics and government 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The long journey to peace: Jordanian-Israeli relations until the Treaty of Peace of 1994; 3 Achieving and building peace (1994-2003); 4 Obstacles to a warm peace at the structural level; 5 The refugee question and peace; 6 Leaderships and the peacebuilding process; 7 The road to a warm peace; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Jordan's peace treaty with Israel was unique as it bore the promise of what was termed a ""warm"" peace between the two warring countries. With legitimacy provided by Madrid and Oslo, hopes for ""true"" peace,



as the Israelis would describe it, were high. This book explores the Jordanian-Israeli relations from a Jordanian perspective, focusing on the peacebuilding experience since 1994. In examining the reasons why a warm peace has not developed, the book focuses on the interplay between agency and structure on the Jordanian side, in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian context. In doing so,