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Victims To Victors: Women Reclaiming Conflict Management In Sub-Saharan Africa, Joy N. Ballard
Victims To Victors: Women Reclaiming Conflict Management In Sub-Saharan Africa, Joy N. Ballard
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Women in sub-Saharan Africa are often viewed as the victims of the conflict around them. This view discredits the hundreds of women who are serving in legislative and executive branches across the region. This research investigates if women in positions of power make more peaceful decisions in times of conflict than their male counterparts. Using negative binomial regression methods this research examines the percentages of women in legislative and executive branches to number of conflict days in a year and number of peace agreements signed. This study found that as the percentage of women in office rise the number of …
The New Normal? Climate Variability And Ecoviolence In Sub-Saharan Africa, Alfonso Sanchez
The New Normal? Climate Variability And Ecoviolence In Sub-Saharan Africa, Alfonso Sanchez
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Climate change presents a wide range of concerns that can jeopardize international security. Among those concerns are neo-Malthusian worries of diminishing natural resources. Predictive models suggest that rainfall and temperature anomalies have the potential to reduce water basins, crop production, increase land degradation among other perils that threaten human security. This concern is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa given the region’s strong dependence on rain-fed agriculture. Despite strong claims from various world leaders and scientists of a direct climate-conflict nexus, little empirical evidence has been devoted to find a systematic causal pathway of this kind. What is more, the literature …