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This issue contains articles of strategies for conflict resolution in the workplace and Africa’s most influential women in business as well as environmental health in Africa.

The leading articles are on the Independent electoral Commission; safeguarding democracy and sisterhood exceeding expectations. There are also articles steering the merSeta and an ambassador for renewable energy and leaders of tomorrow.

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Articles on corruption fatigue; fiscal strategies and stronger public health systems.

This magazine features African women who are a source of inspiration. There are articles on a greener Africa and promoting the entrepreneurial spirit and on value in development and the power of seeing potential.

Sur Journal
was created ten years ago as a vehicle
to deepen and strengthen bonds between academics
and activists from the Global South concerned
with human rights, in order to magnify their
voices and their participation before international
organizations and academia. Our main motivation
was the fact that, particularly in the Southern
hemisphere, academics were working alone and
there was very little exchange between researchers
from different countries. The journal’s aim has been
to provide indivi
duals and organizations working
to defend human rights with research, analyses
and case studies that combine academic rigor
and practical interest. In many ways, these lofty
ambitions have been met with success: in the past
decade, we have published articles from dozens
of countries on issues as diverse as health and
access to treatment, transitional justice, regional
mechanisms and information and human rights,
to name a few. P

Articles include: Security regionalism and flaws of externally forged peace in Sudan: The IGAD peace process and its aftermath and formal and informal land tenure systems in Afar region of Ethiopia – perceptions, attitudes and implications for land use disputes.

Other articles include the Nigerian State as an equilibrium of violence: An explanation of the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria and Emmanuel Ikechi Onah’s article on Pastoral conflict in Kenya and transforming mimetic violence to mimetic blessings between Turkana and Pokot communities and Ryan Triche – Terrorism and governance crisis: The Boko Haram experience in Nigeria as well as a book review on Towards an African Peace and Security regime.

This issue of the Women of Vietnam Review contains articles on the Vietnam Women’s Museum and women pilots as well as information about the concerted efforts that are required to ensure that the millennium development goals (MDGs) are achieved among ethnic groups in Vietnam, particularly in rural areas. The Vietnam National Assembly vice chair delivered a speech promoting gender equality to the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva.

The irreversible and often devastating impacts of climate change as a result of global warming and androgenic change in the weather are often positioned as a crisis to be negotiated by governments of the world at the annual United Nations Framework Convention Conference of the Parties (COP) Summit. Several centuries of uncontrolled industrial pollution in the North and the growing burden of emissions from developing countries in pursuit of economic development in the South pose a devastating threat to the planet and to the world’s population. It is a global concern that affects everyone and brings global inequalities sharply into relief, particularly because the gender impacts of climate change are likely to be worst for women in developing countries. Africa as the poorest continent has the least resources to address the problems that result from changing weather patterns and extreme climatic events, the projected shortages of food and water, and growing competition over scarce natural resources.
This issue of Agenda contributes to the growing endeavour to place the focus on gender and climate change in Africa and the importance of social research situating women and gender in the centre of both research on climate change as well as in global and local policy formulation and implementation. Research must serve to inform the understanding of climate change, and moves us beyond the reduction of the problem to the setting of carbon targets for industry, carbon financing and scientific solutions, seen as gender neutral. These ‘solutions’ or interventions often have serious implications for disadvantaged groups in society, including women and children. Climate change affects every geographic location in different ways, and calls for a range of actions which include among others, change in behaviour to reduce carbon emissions, the forecasting of the weather and monitoring of the environment, and identifying gender sensitive community disaster responses, adaptation and mitigation strategies that support sustainable development and resilience to climate change.

This edition of Africa in Fact, entitled Broken Ranks, focuses on the military in Africa with articles on the decline of Nigeria’s military, the well cultivated image of Madagascar’s army and the trusted Rwandan peacekeeping force.

Other articles on the military in Africa include Uganda’s troops, the private military and security companies and Zimbabwe’s military reach in protection of politician’s business interests.