Legalization of Human Rights in Africa : The Institutionalization of Laws Prohibiting State-Sanctioned Violence and Torture (Hardcover)

Introduction to Legalization of Human Rights in Africa??Part I: The Theory, The Model, And The International Regimes Regulating State-Sponsored Violence??1 What is legalization?? 2 An integrative model for the assessment of legalization as congruence??3 The international legal framework for prohibitions against torture, disappearances, and political killings??4 The African human rights regim? 5 The UN Charter-Based Processes and Evaluations of Africa’s Conflicts and Human Rights Protections??Part II: Continent-Wide Progress In The Legalization Of Prohibitions?Against Torture, Disappearances And Killings??6 Taking the broad view??7 Do peace missions in Africa matter?? 8 How foreign investment fuels social conflicts in Africa??Part III: Case-Studies??9 Cameroon and human rights at a time of national crisis? 10 The struggle for human rights in Guinea? 11 Civil society and the struggle for human rights in Tunisia? 12 Zimbabwe and a reassessment of Institutional Anomie Theory? 13 The power of regional peripheries: The making and unmaking of the legalization of human rights in Mali? 14 Human rights as a moving target in Botswana? 15 Conclusions? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?