{"title":"Theorising the onset of communal conflicts in Northern Ghana","authors":"Abdul Karim Issifu","doi":"10.1080/14781158.2021.1970521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2021.1970521","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Communal conflicts present a severe threat to human security, resulting in the death of thousands of people every year. The communal conflict in Dagbon in the Northern Region of Ghana, for instance, led to the murder of the King of Dagbon and 40 other people. This conflict has attracted debates which are centred around attempts to explain its onset. But the understanding of this phenomenon is still incomplete. In particular, there is inadequate detailed information about what actually started the conflict. This article aims to fill this knowledge gap by engaging the greed-grievance theories to comprehensively understand the conflict’s onset. This article contributes to the theoretical understanding of communal conflicts, which is of both scholarly and policy importance. Navigating insights from theoretical literature and content analysis of secondary data, it finds that perceived injustice and land wealth were the motivating factors in the onset of the conflict in Dagbon in 2002.","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"33 1","pages":"259 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45994901","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":"Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow MississippiRobert HuntFergusonAthens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.","authors":"Tracy E. K’Meyer","doi":"10.1111/pech.12480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84394988","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":"Reflections on 2020","authors":"K. Gaines","doi":"10.1111/pech.12485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12485","url":null,"abstract":"In his 1953 novel of ideas, The Outsider, Richard Wright ominously predicted that industrial capitalist society would inexorably result in “the total and absolute in modern life.” Wright did not mean that Soviet communism would prevail, capturing the hearts and minds of Americans. His point was that the West's capitalist democracy was just as capable of slouching toward a dystopian, totalitarian future as the Soviet Union. How might Wright’s prescient thoughts on the death of liberal democracy inform our attempts to save ourselves from the “totalitarian danger” looming in the United States? As multiracial American democracy, voting rights, and the rule of law are under assault from the U.S. far right, it is abundantly clear that anti‐Black racism animates the enemies of democracy and those who would establish and support autocratic rule. These reflections seek to historicize the assault on democracy in the US and the epochal events of 2020, including: the global protests following the murder of George Floyd by police;the death of hundreds of thousands in the US during the global Coronavirus pandemic;and concerted efforts by Trump and the far‐right to destroy multiracial democracy before and after the 2020 election, culminating in the violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Peace & Change is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73593842","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":"Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young and the Culture and Politics of American Militarism. Mark PhilipBradley and Mary L.Dudziak, eds. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.","authors":"Melvin Small","doi":"10.1111/pech.12483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86336586","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":"How China loses: the pushback against Chinese global ambitions","authors":"A. Sigdel","doi":"10.1080/14781158.2021.1952178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2021.1952178","url":null,"abstract":"Luke Patey’s book, How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions, shows how China, emboldened by its newfound wealth and power, meets growing pushback as it ambitiously increases i...","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"33 1","pages":"299 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14781158.2021.1952178","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44827865","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":"Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War.RonCarver, DavidCortright, and BarbaraDoherty, eds. New York: New Village Press, 2019.","authors":"R. Kirkby","doi":"10.1111/PECH.12477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/PECH.12477","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90169857","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":"The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. GregMitchell. New York: The New Press, 2020.","authors":"William M. Knoblauch","doi":"10.1111/PECH.12479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/PECH.12479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79024868","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":"Caste: The Origins of our Discontents. IsabelWilkerson. New York: Random House, 2020.","authors":"Jeremy A. Rinker","doi":"10.1111/PECH.12478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/PECH.12478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79553059","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":"Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Keisha N.Blain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.","authors":"J. Castledine","doi":"10.1111/PECH.12482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/PECH.12482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44867,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Peace & Security","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90147348","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}