Author: Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Human Rights Watch/ Revenge in the Name of Religion
Author: "They Do Not Own this Place"
Author: Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Recommendations. -- Introduction. -- Historical background and context. The development of Nigerian federaism - The origins of the indigeneity issue in Nigeria - The extent of the problem in today's Nigeria. -- Government discrimination against non-indigenes. Ambiguous legal definitions of indigeneity - Certificates of indigeneity - Theatres of government-sponsored discrimination against non-Indigenes. Public sector employment. Barriers to obtaining higher education. Barriers to political participation. -- Indigeneity and intercommunal conflict: an overview. Indigene-settler conflicts. -- Case studies. Plateau State: The case of "stateless citizens". - Kaduna State: indigeneity and intra-state conflict. - Delta State: the ownership controversy in Warri. -- The Nigerian government response and potential policy alternatives. Possible policy responses to the indigeneity issue.
Arbitrary Killings by Security Forces
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 1564324745
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
In this submission concerning violence in Jos, Pleateau States, Nigeria, the Human Rights Watch presents its findings from on-the-ground research conducted in Jos during December 2008 and February 2009. On November 28-29, 2008, deadly clashes between Muslims and Christian mobs and excessive use of force by security forces left hundreds dead. Muslim and Christian authorities have collectively documented the deaths of more than 700 people in the two days of violence. The Nigerian police and military were implicated in more than 130 arbitrary killings, mostly of young Muslim men from the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group. The Human Rights Watch documented 133 killings, but believes the actual number of arbitrary killings by security forces may be sustantially higher.
Religion, Violence, and Local Power-Sharing in Nigeria
Author: Laura Thaut VinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316844722
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Why does religion become a fault line of communal violence in some pluralistic countries and not others? Under what conditions will religious identity - as opposed to other salient ethnic cleavages - become the spark that ignites communal violence? Contemporary world politics since 9/11 is increasingly marked by intra-state communal clashes in which religious identity is the main fault line. Yet, violence erupts only in some religiously pluralistic countries, and only in some parts of those countries. This study argues that prominent theories in the study of civil conflict cannot adequately account for the variation in subnational identity-based violence. Examining this variation in the context of Nigeria's pluralistic north-central region, this book finds support for a new theory of power-sharing. It finds that communities are less likely to fall prey to a divisive narrative of religious difference where local leaders informally agreed to abide by an inclusive, local government power-sharing arrangement.
"Rest in Pieces"
Author: Sonya MaldarPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Detention of persons
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Recommendations. -- Methods. -- Background: attitudes towards policing. History of policing in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria -- Structure and organization of the Nigerian police force. -- Deaths in police custody. -- Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Types of torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment -- Who is targeted: Arrest of friends or relatives of a suspect. Torture and ill-treatment of members of self-determination groups. -- The purpose -- The perpetrators --The location -- The right to freedom from torture. -- Rape by the police. -- Abusive conditions of detention and denial of medical treatment. -- Lack of due process of law. Acceptance of forced confessions -- Failure to be informed of grounds for arrest -- Absence of legal representation -- Prolonged pre-trial detention. -- Obstacles to redress. Criminal investigations and prosecutions -- Police Complaints Burea -- The 'Orderly Room Trial' -- The Police Service Commission -- National Human Rights Commission -- Inquests and autopsies -- Societal attitudes to torture and police abuses. -- Police Reform. Review of the Police Act -- Donor governments' support for police reform. -- Conclusion. -- Acknowledgements.
Identity and Religion in Peace Processes
Author: Karina V. KorostelinaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040105858
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This book examines the complex role identity and religion play in global peace processes. Based on multiple case studies, this book unveils the complex role identity and religion play in peace processes across the globe. It demonstrates that the success and sustainability of a peace process depends on the systemic application of the BRIDGE model that is introduced here. This model describes five major strategies (Bonding, Reassuring, Involving, Determining Guides, and Equalizing) and numerous tactics for how peace processes and accords can deal with the central issues as well as important common challenges that run through identity-based ethnonational or religious conflicts. This represents the first comprehensive account of how the transition from enemies to neighbors is achieved and how intergroup relations and engagement are transformed in peace processes, impacting power, access to resources, legitimacy, and representation in national identity. The model also discusses what forms of peacebuilding authentically represent the interests, needs, and values of religious constituencies, and what can be learned from how religious constituencies escalate and de-escalate conflict. The book demonstrates why religion must also be included in peace processes and permanent solutions, owing to religion’s capacity to enhance commitment to bonding and peaceful values, such as justice, compassion, nonviolence, stability, care for children, and care for the environment, for the sick, the wounded, the traumatized, and the bereaved. This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, intra-state conflict, religion studies, and International Relations.
Human Rights Watch
Author: Criminal Politics
Author: Chris Albin-LackeyPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Corruption in Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Nigeria is mired in a crisis of governance. For decades, Nigeria's governing elite have been widely implicated in acts of violence, corruption and electorial fraud so pervasive as to resemble criminal activity more han democratic governance. Not only has Nigeria's federal government failed to hold these politicians to account, but Nigeria's system of politics has actively rewarded corruption and violence with control governorships, parliamentary seats and other positions of public trust.
Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence
Author: Jack David EllerPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1616142669
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This illuminating, in-depth studypresents a wealth of case material, demonstrating the many manifestations of religious violence-not just war and terrorism, which are the focus of so many discussions of religiously motivated violence-but also more prevalent forms. The author, an anthropologist, devotes separate chapters to: - sacrifice (both animal and human); - self-mortification (including self-injury, asceticism, and martyrdom); - religious persecution (from anti-Semitic pogroms to witchhunts); - ethno-religious conflict (including such hotspots as Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, and the former Yugoslavia); - religious wars (from the ancient Hebrews'' wars and the Christian Crusades to Islamic jihad and Hindu righteous wars); - and religious homicide and abuse (spousal abuse, genital mutilation, and "dowry death," among other manifestations). In the final chapter, "Religion and Nonviolence," the author examines nonviolent and low-conflict societies and considers various methods of managing conflict. This book goes a long way toward helping us understand the nature of violence generally, its complicated connections with religion, and how society in the future might avoid being blindsided by the worst aspects of human nature.
Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World
Author: John IliffePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 184701027X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Olusegun Obasanjo has been the most important and controversial figure in Nigeria's first 50 years of independence and the most powerful African of his time. John Iliffe examines Olusegun Obasanjo's complex personality and the extreme controversy he arouses among Nigerians, and illustrates the immense demands made on a leader of a state like Nigeria.