PublicationsCCR BooksCCR's books provide cutting edge quality research and analysis of critical issues about Africa and are published by UKZN Press and Jacana.
This CCR book represents the first comprehensive attempt to examine the role of the United Nations in Africa over the last six decades. The contributions are from eminent pan-African scholars and policy intellectuals, most of whom have had practical first-hand experience with the world body. They examine 'global apartheid' — the inequitable power relations between the rich North and poor South — in three important areas: the politics within the UN's principal organs; peacekeeping and human rights; and socio-economic development, centred on the efforts of sixteen UN agencies, programmes and funds. This is a unique volume on the role of the world's most important multilateral body on its most impoverished continent. Adekeye Adebajo (ed), From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, June 2009).
Drawing on the expertise of many insider analysts, this CCR book offers fresh insights on the 'justice versus peace' dilemma, examining the challenges and prospects of promoting both peace and accountability, specifically in African countries affected by conflict or political violence. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of approaches to accountability and peacebuilding. These include not only domestic courts and tribunals, hybrid tribunals, or the International Criminal Court, but also truth commissions and informal or non-state justice and conflict resolution processes. Taken together, they demonstrate the wealth of experiences and experimentation in transitional justice processes on the continent. Chandra Lekha Sriram and Suren Pillay (eds.), Peace versus Justice? The Dilemma of Transitional Justice in Africa (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, June 2009).
This CCR book focuses on the rapidly growing economic and political influence that China has in Africa. Cutting-edge contributions from sixteen pan-African authors provide an historical and geo-political context for understanding the evolving partnership between Africa and China. The book features nine detailed country case studies and assesses China's Africa policy and interests in relation to those of other powers. Kweku Ampiah and Sanusha Naidu (eds.), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Africa and China (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, June 2008).
This CCR volume offers the first comprehensive assessment of the post-Cold War foreign policy of Nigeria — one of Africa's most important states. Expert contributors, comprising academics and scholar-diplomats, analyse Nigeria's most vital domestic challenges and critical regional issues from historical and contemporary perspectives. Nigeria's relations with its neighbours and other significant states and regional and international bodies are also examined. Adekeye Adebajo and Abdul Raufu Mustapha (eds.), Gulliver's Troubles: Nigeria's Foreign Policy After the Cold War (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, June 2008). Related content
This CCR publication is a multidisciplinary overview of the discourse on HIV/AIDS and explores the concept of human security and the global development agenda. Contributors examine how the epidemic intersects with politics, society, culture and the economy in South Africa, addressing human rights, gender inequality, prisons, the military, the education sector, rural livelihoods and the orphan crisis. Angela Ndinga-Muvumba and Robyn Pharoah (eds.), HIV/AIDS and Society in South Africa (UKZN Press: Scottsville, June 2008). Related content
This CCR publication is an examination of the conceptual issues surrounding Africa's human rights framework and the international, continental, sub-regional and national institutions that have sought to address the problems plaguing the continent in the post-colonial era. The book also presents a critical examination of the evolution of Africa's human rights architecture in the post-Cold War period. John Akokpari and Daniel Shea Zimbler (eds.), Africa's Human Rights Architecture (Auckland Park: Jacana Media, June 2008). Related content
Written by eminent scholars and practitioners who have worked with or in the African Union, this latest CCR volume brings together the analysis and research of 17 largely Pan-African scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and civil society representatives. John Akokpari, Angela Ndinga-Muvumba and Tim Murithi (eds.), The African Union and Its Institutions (Auckland Park: Jacana Media, June 2008).
This prestigious volume provides a socio-economic and political context for understanding South Africa's foreign policy, on the premise that an effective foreign policy can be built only on a sound domestic foundation. Adekeye Adebajo, Adebayo Adedeji, and Chris Landsberg (eds.) South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid Era (Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2007). Related content
This volume provides an in-depth, rich collection of unique contributions by a Pan-African team of scholars and practitioners. Published by CCR and Jacana Media, it is the first published volume that provides African perspectives on key issues related to the UN. Adekeye Adebajo and Helen Scanlon (eds.) A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essays on Africa and the United Nations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2006). Related content |
