Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R. Mekonnen

The African Garrison State

Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea Revised and Updated

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of how and why the bright prospects the new state of Eritrea had in 1991 were undercut, turning the country into one of the world's most authoritarian, militarised, isolated, and human rights-abusing states.

Produktdetails

• Eastern Africa Series
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781847010698
• ISBN-10: 1847010695
• Artikelnr.: 40110124

Autorenporträt

KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Eritrean African Garrison State Judicial development in
independent Eritrea: Legal pluralism and political containment Rule of
law(lessness) in Eritrea: The special court and the judiciary Democratic
curtailment in Eritrea: 'Never democracy, always control!' Obliterating
civil society in Eritrea: Denying freedom of organisation and expression
The Eritrean Gulag archipelago: Prison conditions, torture and
extrajudicial killings Everyday life of detention and disappearances in
Eritrea: Vulnerable groups in a population under siege Minority
marginalisation in Eritrea: EPLF's politics of cultural superiority
Diversity diminished in Eritrea: Targeting the Kunama minority group The
militarisation of Eritrean society: Omnipresent and neverending military
service Eritrea? Towards a transition?