{"title":"Operating in a rough neighbourhood : Zimbabwe’s foreign policy in Southern Africa 1980-1990","authors":"T. Mudau, D. Mangani","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/S1N1A9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/S1N1A9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"334 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122835241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gendering climate change and human rights in Africa : the case of coastal communities in Lagos State, Nigeria - research","authors":"V. Ojakorotu, B. Olajide","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/S1N1A1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/S1N1A1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123820531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distrust and victimhood in post-conflict Rwanda in Paul Rusesabagina’s An Ordinary Man","authors":"Aghogho Akpome","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/V7N2A2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/V7N2A2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122482195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governance failure and terrorism in Nigeria","authors":"S. Idoniboye-Obu","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116949845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the role of Nigeria’s Technical Aid Corps as soft power : rough diamond or fools’ gold","authors":"C. N. Ogbonna, Olusola Ogunnubi","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116956024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health as a security issue : an African perspective","authors":"Robin Blake","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128998091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, New Fringe Pastoralism: Conflict, Security and Development in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel. Addis Ababa: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa - book review","authors":"Siphamandla Zondi","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116401454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are social media platforms not effective? Analysis of social movements for the release of Nigerian school girl Leah Sharibu abducted by Boko-Haram","authors":"A. Nwammuo, A. Salawu","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n2a5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129607165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Illegible Will. Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora, Bhana Young - book review","authors":"K. Ferreira‐Meyers","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n1a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n1a10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124440182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminisation of poverty among girl children : towards social transformation","authors":"Priscilla Gutura, T. Manomano","doi":"10.31920/2050-4950/2018/V7N1A4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4950/2018/V7N1A4","url":null,"abstract":"Poverty is an international societal impediment. Women and children are the most vulnerable populations to poverty which has led to the coining of the term ‘feminisation of poverty’. This paper is based on literature review as it discusses the factors that promote the feminisation of poverty among girl children in selected African countries. Most of the factors which have been identified are as a result of the predominance of the system of patriarchy and rigid social and cultural traditions. The factors include sexual abuse of girl children; child and forced marriages; commercial sex exploitation of girl children; impact of HIV/AIDS and poor quality of education for girls. In light of the factors identified in the literature reviewed, the authors of this paper recommended social transformation in societies in order to reduce poverty among girl children. There is a need to make the communities aware of the girl child’s rights so that they can prioritise the girl-child’s best interests too. The government should prioritise instituting programmes and interventions to advocate for a cost-benefit analysis of cultural practices. This will help stop Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation ISSN: 2078-760X (print) 2050-4950 (Online) • Indexed at: EBSCO, ProQuest, J-Gate and Sabinet • Accredited by IBSS Vol. 7, (Number 1), June 2018","PeriodicalId":111064,"journal":{"name":"Ubuntu : Journal of Conflict Transformation","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128197823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}