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Introduction In the last five decades, both inter and intra-state conflicts of variegated magnitude with different humanitarian implications confronted the African continent. According to a recent study 16 wars took place between 1990 and 1997 in Africa. Of these, 14 were intrastate conflicts (Algeria, Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara, and the Republic of Congo). Only 2 were interstate (Chad/Libya and Rwanda/Uganda) (Tadesse, 2009). This situation necessitated numerous peace-making and peacekeeping interventions in Africa especially from the United Nations. The UN Charter gives the Security Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In fulfilling this responsibility, the Council can establish a UN peacekeeping operation. UN peacekeeping operations are deployed on the basis of mandates from the   United Nations Security Council . Their tasks d...

By Ozeh, Cornelius Chiedozie Introduction The ever widening interconnection of the economic, technological and socio-political sectors of the countries of the world necessitated the redefinition of the concept of security beyond strategic concerns.   We are used to think security in terms of military threats and arising beyond the borders of one’s own country. Traditionally national security is understood as “the acquisition, deployment and use of military force to achieve national goals” (Held and McGrew 1998). Walt (1991) classical view of security promoted a state-centric position that restricted the application of security to threats in the military realm only. The re-conceptualization of security brought about a two dimensional shift from the original notion of security: broadening , i.e., consideration of nonmilitary security threats such as environmental scarcity and degradation, spread of disease, overpopulation, refugee movements, terrorism; and deepening , i...

The world remembers the inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando. The Taiwanese-Japanese inventor, Ando whose instant noodles revolutionized the food world, was born during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in 1910, moved to Japan at the age of 23 became a Japanese citizen following World War II. He died in Osaka on Jan. 5, 2007, at the age of 96.

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The Impacts of Civil Society on Policy Analysis By  Ozeh, Cornelius  Introduction: Analysis of policy options is imperative to making informed policy decisions. It involves relevant stakeholders and actors which participate in the process of clarifying a messy policy challenge, analyzing relevant information – including information on the specific context of the problem, clarifying, playing out the implications of and weighing options for action, making recommendations, and, in some cases, developing a strategic plan for implementation. These stakeholders and actors have their respective three-tiered belief systems: “deep core, policy core and secondary aspects,” (Sabatier 1988).  These three tiers of belief suggest how the policy analysis actors and stakeholders impact on policy analysis itself, so that “policy designs are interpreted as translations of (policy actors’) beliefs (ibid.).” The civil society as a towering actor of policy analysis has gre...