The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan. By Tim Glawion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 272p. $99.99 cloth.

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 949-951
Author(s):  
Jonathan Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Central African Republic ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Local Order ◽  
Cambridge University

African politics and security to end-2017

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
African Politics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
International Funding ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Step Down ◽  
Regional Leaders

Subject African politics and security to end-2017. Significance Key regional leaders are set to step down from national and party presidencies in Angola and South Africa, presidents in Nigeria and Zimbabwe are in ill health, while growing displacement crises in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could worsen without increased international funding and support. Although famine risks have lessened in South Sudan, conflict and instability will persist in Nigeria and Somalia as renewed insurgency threats grow.

scholarly journals Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412110610
Author(s):  
Lotje de Vries ◽  
Tim Glawion
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Incomplete Data ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Outer Circle ◽  
Relative Safety ◽  
Blind Spots

Qualitative empirical enquiries into dynamics of security and insecurity often include a blind spot that bear theoretical ramifications because only those areas and respondents that allow for relatively safe fieldwork are studied. To transparently articulate the spheres of projection that creep into our knowledge production, we propose a distinction between inner and outer circles as highly fluid but separate geographical, socio-political and methodological spaces. Drawing on fieldwork in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, we discuss the risks posed by incomplete data and subsequently flawed inferences. We argue that the perceptions of fear projected onto the outer circle shape people’s behaviour more than measurable insecurity incidents and that increased interaction between actors in both circles reduces the perceived threats coming from the outer circles. We demonstrate how studying insecurity from inner circles risks securitizing outer circles while further centralizing the inner ones. We thus urge transparency in data collection and the related inferences that underpin our knowledge production.

Central African Republic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Schneider ◽  
Vanessa Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Democratic Elections

The Central African Republic (Centrafrique) is a landlocked country bordered by Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon. It is 622,984 square kilometres (km) and has a population of 4.7 million. Centrafrique has a long history of political instability and the latest security and humanitarian crisis of 2013 has deeply affected the country, leading to the displacement of approximately 25 per cent of the population. Although the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has been deployed since April 2014 and democratic elections took place in 2016, Centrafrique is still very much a country in crisis, where violent conflict is all too common.

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