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"Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times." "In The Congo Wars Thomas Tinner provides the first in-depth analysis of what happened. The book describes a resource-rich region, suffering from years of deprivation and still profoundly affected by the Shockwaves of the Rwandan genocide. Turner looks at successive misguided and self-interested interventions by other African powers, including Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia, as well as the impotence of United Nations troops. Cutting through the historical myths so often used to understand the devastation, Turner indicates the changes required of Congolese leaders, neighbouring African states and the international community to bring about lasting peace and security."--BOOK JACKET

The report summarises the findings of an initiative led by the Local Sustainability Team (LSt) at IDeA in partnership with the SDC to explore the potential for developing sustainable procurement as a shared priority. ; Publisher PDF

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, by Norman G. Finkelstein, is reviewed.

N. Dewar, in his article; 'Municipal Government under the New South African Constitution: Who Gets What, Where, Who Decides, and Who Decides Who Decides?' Social Dynamics, Vol. 11(2), argues that the new local government legislation could lead to individual ethnic groups having the space to enact legislation which could precipitate fundamental changes to national level structures. This paper argues against this view because there is a great difference between the stated government commitment to devolution of power and the reality of local government legislation which is characterised by increased state centralisation of powers. Both forms of local government structures, Regional Services Councils and Primary Local Authorities, are going to be under such tight state control that the possibility of using them to challenge national structures is negligible. Local government restructuring must be seen as part of a broader state strategy to defuse political unrest and restructure the economy. This article will show how contradictory objectives of this strategy at local government level are primarily responsible for the discrepancy between government rhetoric and reality.