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Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa 游击队与好斗的母亲:南非的妇女与武装斗争

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.17159/ajcr.v23i1.16788

Anthea Garman

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The Political Ecology of Farmer-Herder Conflict in Ghana: A Case Study of the Kwahu Afram Plains South District 加纳农牧民冲突的政治生态:以夸胡阿夫拉姆平原南区为例

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.17159/ajcr.v23i1.16786

Bernard Okoampah Otu, Kwasi Sarfo

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Africa's Quest for Reform of the United Nations Security Council: A Just Cause Curbed by Unrealistic Proposals 非洲对联合国安理会改革的追求:一项被不切实际的建议所遏制的正义事业

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.17159/ajcr.v23i1.16785

Niguse Mandefero Alene, Mohammed Seid Ali, Kebede Yimam Tadesse

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Civil War between the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front: A Challenge to Implement the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine 埃塞俄比亚政府与提格雷人民解放阵线之间的内战:对执行保护责任原则的挑战

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.17159/ajcr.v23i1.16771

Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Census O. Osedo

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Emerging Local Voices and New Possibilities toward Attaining Sustainable Peace in Bawku, north-eastern Ghana 在加纳东北部的博库，正在出现的地方声音和实现可持续和平的新可能性

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.17159/ajcr.v23i1.16787

Aminu Dramani, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

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Transferring Policy: The African Union's Protection of Civilians Policy in Peacekeeping Missions in Somalia and South Sudan 政策转移:非盟在索马里和南苏丹维和行动中的平民保护政策

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.17159/ajcr.v23i1.16770

Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Liezelle Kumalo

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Towards justice and reconciliation in post-conflict countries: Meaningful concepts and possible realities 在冲突后国家实现正义与和解:有意义的概念和可能的现实

IF 0.3

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2018-08-06 DOI: 10.4314/AJCR.V18I1

Charles Mulinda Kabwete

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引用次数: 9

Book Review: Violence, Religion, Peacemaking 书评:暴力，宗教，缔造和平

IF 0.3

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/ajcr.v18i2

J. Malan

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The Quest for Happiness as an Underlying Motive for Violent Conflict in Africa 寻求幸福是非洲暴力冲突的潜在动机

IF 0.3

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2017-12-07 DOI: 10.4314/AJCR.V17I2

Mark F. Chingono

引用次数: 2

‘Vote not Fight’: Examining music’s role in fostering non-violent elections in Nigeria “投票而不是战斗”:审视音乐在促进尼日利亚非暴力选举中的作用

IF 0.3

African Journal on Conflict Resolution Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.4314/AJCR.V17I1

Joseph Olusegun Adebayo

引用次数: 31