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Policing Africa : Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization / Alice Hills.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626374126
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.2/096 21
LOC classification:
  • HV8267.A3 .H555 2004
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Toward a Critique of Policing and National Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1990 -- 2. Policing the Postcolonial State -- 3. The Police and Politics -- 4. Models of African Policing: Evolution and Conversion -- 5. Models of African Policing: Construction and Integration -- 6. Models of African Policing: Transition -- 7. Models of African Policing: Adaptation -- 8. Conclusion: Modalities of Policing Africa -- Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: The use and abuse of political power in Africa has been closely related to the role and function of the police. Alice Hills explores the impact of the cautious moves toward liberalization across the continent both on policing systems and on the relationship between those systems and national development. Hills engages contemporary debates on security sector reform, governance, law and justice, and civil society to examine the environment within which Africa’s police forces operate. She also addresses the special problems confronting reconstructed states: the prevalence of low-intensity conflicts, reintegration programs, UN and NGO involvement, the nature of policing, and differing concepts of professionalism and liberalization. A series of case studies—from Congo (Zaire), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Somalia, and Uganda—inform this original book, which offers an important prism through which to view state-society relations in Africa.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Toward a Critique of Policing and National Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1990 -- 2. Policing the Postcolonial State -- 3. The Police and Politics -- 4. Models of African Policing: Evolution and Conversion -- 5. Models of African Policing: Construction and Integration -- 6. Models of African Policing: Transition -- 7. Models of African Policing: Adaptation -- 8. Conclusion: Modalities of Policing Africa -- Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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The use and abuse of political power in Africa has been closely related to the role and function of the police. Alice Hills explores the impact of the cautious moves toward liberalization across the continent both on policing systems and on the relationship between those systems and national development. Hills engages contemporary debates on security sector reform, governance, law and justice, and civil society to examine the environment within which Africa’s police forces operate. She also addresses the special problems confronting reconstructed states: the prevalence of low-intensity conflicts, reintegration programs, UN and NGO involvement, the nature of policing, and differing concepts of professionalism and liberalization. A series of case studies—from Congo (Zaire), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Somalia, and Uganda—inform this original book, which offers an important prism through which to view state-society relations in Africa.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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