Full Description
This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.
Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as diverse as migration, housing, climate change, displacement, food security, aflatoxins, land rights, and peace and conflict resolution. In particular, the book showcases innovative original research from African scholars based on the continent and abroad, and together the contributors provide policy recommendations and set forth a human security research agenda for East Africa, which encompasses Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti.
As well as being useful for policy makers and practitioners, this book will interest researchers across African Studies, Security Studies, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Global Governance, International Relations, and Human Geography.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Contents
Foreword By Timothy M. Shaw Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa Jeremiah O. Asaka and Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo 2. Human Security Jeremiah O. Asaka 3. Securitization Versus Human Security: An Ontological Argument Francis Onditi 4. Interrogating the Role of Human Security and Human Development in Transforming Refugees Livelihoods in Kenya and Uganda Dennis Jjuuko 5. Elusive Peace and Conflict Resolution in South Sudan: A Human Security Alternative Approach Israel Nyaburi Nyadera and Billy Agwanda 6. Conflicting Identities and Insecurities? Uncertainties About Land Rights in Tanzania and Ethiopia Francis Semwaza 7. Economic Perspectives to Human Security in Rwanda Alfred R. Bizoza 8. Human Security Implications of Aflatoxins in East Africa Ruth Wangia Dixon and Jeremiah O. Asaka 9. The Governance Dimensions of Environment Security in 21st-Century Eastern Africa: A Review Mumo Nzau 10. Impact of Climate Resilient Rural Road Transport on Human Security in Kenya Evaristus M. Irandu 11. Climate Change, Food Security, and the Challenge of Sustainable Development in East Africa Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo 12. Housing and Human Security in Kampala, Uganda Assumpta Nnaggenda Musana and Doreen Kyosimire 13. Exploring the Urbanization-Migration Nexus in Nairobi City, Kenya: A Human Security Analysis Elias H. O. Ayiemba Index
