Essays about: "nation building in africa"

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  1. 6. Incorporating Conflict-Free Minerals into Sustainable Supply Chain Management

    University essay from Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Joshua Martin; [2011]
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    Abstract : Issue of Study: Sustainable supply chain management is increasingly viewed not as a cost, but as aprofit-building and value-adding direction. Within this policy, a dichotomy of social andenvironmental goals is pursued, with economic sustainability providing a foundation. READ MORE

  3. 7. Why grow lettuce? : agricultural production policies being implemented in Koinadugu District, West Africa

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Florence Conteh; [2011]
    Keywords : agriculture production; food security; policy;

    Abstract : "Continued failure to effectively implement policy wastes increasingly scares resources and undermines the prospects of sustainable development" (Brinkerhoff,1395)After a decade long civil war ravaged the country, Sierra Leone faced the challenge of rebuilding its broken infrastructure, social disconnect and food and health inadequacies. With approximately two thirds of the population residing in rural areas and engaged in subsistence level agricultural activity it is estimated that 70% of the total population lives below the poverty line. READ MORE

  4. 8. Women as Nation Builders : Strategically invested aid in Uganda for nation-building processes

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Susanne Zetterblom; [2010]
    Keywords : nation building; women; democracy; democratic institutions; ethnicity; history; society; politics; agriculture;

    Abstract : Former colonized countries, especially in Africa, have suffered a tough political climate, often under the leadership of a dictator. The process of implementing democracy has, in many states, often been violent and terrifying. Under these circumstances, it has been hard to build institutions where people feel united as one nation. READ MORE

  5. 9. Building a Rainbow nation : A field study of the integration process at the North-West University in South Africa

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Karin Lilja; Sanna Kronqvist; [2008]
    Keywords : South Africa; Integration; North West; Education; Apartheid; Contact Theory;

    Abstract : North West University is a creation of one of many mergers between previous universities in South Africa. The process is partly thought to integrate previous advantaged and disadvantaged universities, often also previous white or black dominated universities. READ MORE

  6. 10. "They say: divided we fall, united we stand" - A Study on National Identity and Nation-building in Postcolonial Namibia

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Johanna Sixtensson; Carolina Hamma; [2005]
    Keywords : Namibia; Postcolonialism; Nation-building; Identity; Ethnicity; Nationalism;

    Abstract : In most nationstates the construction and making of a national identity is a historic phenomenon as the process started hundreds of years ago. In Namibia however, the construction of a nation and a national identity has just been instigated. Namibia, as one of the last colonies in Africa, did not gain independence until 1990. READ MORE