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The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/63005 The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies Hough, Mike (Michael) adoteyanum@yahoo.com Anum, Samuel Adotey UCTD Mass Uprising Uprising International involvement Escalation of violence Insurgency Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2017. The study examined the relationship between mass uprisings and insurgencies and the impact of international involvement on escalation of mass uprisings into an insurgency. The research used the insurgencies of the LRA (Uganda); RUF (Sierra Leone), Boko Haram (Nigeria) and Al-Shabaab (Somalia) as well as the mass uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya as case studies. The study established that insurgencies in Africa that relied primarily on terrorism and violence explain criminal rather than political violence. While the mass uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revealed normal patterns of conflict, it was established that the case of Libya was a hybrid of mass uprising and insurgent methods that leaned towards a description of a new category of insurgency. The study further confirmed that internal conditions in a state and the nature of international involvement define the outcomes of a mass uprising or an insurgency in terms of escalation, duration and termination. The comprehensive humanitarian interventions in the insurgencies of the LRA, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab and the R2P intervention in Libya escalated violence and conflict continuation. In contrast, the limited involvement in the mass uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt resulted in low levels of violence, while the intervention in Sierra Leone terminated the RUF insurgency in view of the associated DDR and institutional building programmes. The study recommends that since humanitarian and military interventions invariably escalate violence and increased fatalities, interventions to end conflicts (mass uprisings and insurgencies) must be based an incremental use of force as a complement to peaceful negotiations. Political Sciences DPhil Unrestricted 2017-11-03T10:03:47Z 2017-11-03T10:03:47Z 2017 2017 Thesis Anum, SA 2017, The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies, DPhil Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63005> S2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63005 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Mass Uprising Uprising International involvement Escalation of violence Insurgency The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies |
| title | The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies |
| title_full | The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies |
| title_fullStr | The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies |
| title_short | The new insurgencies and mass uprisings in Africa and international involvement : selected case studies |
| title_sort | new insurgencies and mass uprisings in africa and international involvement selected case studies |
| topic | UCTD Mass Uprising Uprising International involvement Escalation of violence Insurgency |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63005 |