Crisis and Terror in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy, Human Rights and Freedom (Law, Social Change and Development Series)

Contemporary social life in the Horn of Africa is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. This collection of carefully selected essays, explores the different aspects of the current crisis in the Horn region of Africa, where to marginalized indigenous groups the crisis materializes itself as social experiences of terror. The result is a far-reaching and important book which critically examines a state terror manifested in the violation of human rights, democracy, justice and freedom. The Horn Of Africa : Local Conflict, Global Order? / Pat Lauderdale, Randall Amster -- Terrorism, The Art Of Statecraft And The Horn Of Africa / Annamarie Oliverio -- The State, Ethnicity And Human Rights In Ethiopia / John Sorenson -- U.s.-sponsored Ethiopian 'democracy' And State Terrorism / Asafa Jalata -- Promises To Keep : Human Rights In Post-derg Ethiopia / Theodore M. Vestal -- Some Reflections On The Crisis Of State-building In Eritrea And Ethiopia / Mesfin Araya -- State Disorder : Global Intervention And Crisis In Somalia / Pietro Toggia, Pat Lauderdale -- The Impact Of Conflict On Minority Groups In Somalia / Julia Maxted -- Civil Society And State Crisis In Somalia / Pietro Toggia -- Islamization In Sudan : The Fallacy Of The Sudanese Administrations' Policy Of National Identity / Korwa G. Adar -- Minorities In The Horn Of Africa / Abebe Zegeye, Julia Maxted -- Postscript : The Ripple Effects Of The Ethio-eritrea Conflict In The Horn Of Africa. Pietro Toggia, Pat Lauderdale, Abebe Zegeye [editors]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contemporary social life in the Horn region is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. The essays in this collection examine the social experience of this terror, which is often manifested in the violation of human rights, democracy, justice and freedom.