| 27 June 2013 |
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| Feature:Why Nigeria needs a criminal tribunal and not amnesty for Boko Haram |
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Any viable solution to stop Boko Haram must incorporate a criminal justice response that includes creating a special tribunal to prosecute the group’s members.
More than 700 Nigerians have died so far this year in over 80 attacks associated with Boko Haram, the Nigerian terrorist group that a recent United States report ranked as the second most deadly in the world after the Taliban in Afghanistan. Most of the deaths occurred in March and April (208 and 335 respectively), confirming the alarming dimension of Boko Haram’s atrocities in Nigeria.
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| ISS Today |
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| The potential danger of religious radicalism in Senegal |
Any viable solution to stop Boko Haram must incorporate a criminal justice response that includes creating a special tribunal to prosecute the group’s members.
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| Have sub-regional organisations overpromised but under-delivered on the Great Lakes? |
Three years after a regional agreement on resolving conflict in the Great Lakes was signed, little has been achieved.
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| Will corruption affect the youth vote in South Africa's 2014 election? |
The youth's confidence in politicians is declining as concerns over corruption increase. Whether this will impact the 2014 election results is unclear.
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| French plans to withdraw from Africa are on hold |
France's decision to maintain a military presence in the Sahel shows that Africa will have to speed up plans for creating its own rapid intervention force or live with the reality of foreign troops on its soil.
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| Events |
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| The future of intrastate conflict in Africa: More violence or greater peace? 5 July 2013 |
In a new paper, Dr Jakkie Cilliers and Dr Julia Schuenemann use the International Futures (IFs) model to analyse future trends for intrastate conflict in Africa up to 2050 in a polycentric world order.
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ACPST Course: Emerging threats to human security in Africa
Application deadline 1 July 2013 |
The course will equip participants with knowledge, practical skills, and an enhanced networking ability to enable them to contribute to bringing about policy and behavioural changes that will help reduce the threats these challenges pose to human security.
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| ISS 4th international conference: National and international perspectives on crime reduction and criminal justice, 21 and 22 August 2013 |
| The conference provides an exciting opportunity to showcase current criminological and contiguous research as well as policy initiatives from across the world. Read more ... |
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| Publications |
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| Policy Brief: The Geneva Conventions and South African law |
South Africa’s adoption of the Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Act, 2012 (Act 8 of 2012) (Geneva Conventions Act) comes as a welcome addition to the country’s legal landscape. Apart from criminalising a variety of offences as war crimes under domestic law, the Act also brings the doctrine of command responsibility to South African law, and places a duty on the authorities to investigate and prosecute those who are suspected of war crime violations, including superiors.
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| Multimedia |
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| Violence, unions and politics |
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Trends and expectations in the run-up to South Africa's 2014 national election. Three experts talk about why violence is not a new phenomenon in South African politics and what to expect in the run up to the 2014 elections.
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| Mogadishu blast shouldn't discourage those rebuilding Somalia |
This week in Africa Episode 53: Paul-Simon Handy discusses the bomb blast at the UN compound in Mogadishu, the agreement over the Malian town of Kidal and setting a date for Zimbabwe's presidential elections.
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