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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823170903321

Autore

Mentan Tatah

Titolo

Africa : facing human security challenges in the 21st century / / Tatah Mentan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bamenda, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9956-792-36-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (580 p.)

Disciplina

323.096

Soggetti

Human rights - Africa

Civil rights - Africa

Human security - 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.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



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