Assessing the missing link within the concept of preventive diplomacy with reference to African conflicts
- Authors: Niyitunga, Eric B.
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Diplomacy , Conflict management - Africa , Africa - Foreign relations
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/218644 , uj:21800 , Citation: Niyitunga, E.B. 2016. Assessing the missing link within the concept of preventive diplomacy with reference to African conflicts. Journal for Contemporary History, 41(2):229-250. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/ 10.18820/24150509/ JCH41.v2.12 , ISSN: 0258-2422 , ISSN: 2415-0509
- Description: Abstract: The role of preventive diplomacy is to prevent the emergence of violent conflicts, to prevent on-going conflicts from spreading and to prevent the relapse of an already settled conflict. The purpose of this article is to critically assess the existing gaps within the concept of preventive diplomacy that render it less appropriate in preventing and managing African conflicts in the post-Cold War era. The article gives an overview of the historical development of preventive diplomacy, referred to as orthodox preventive diplomacy. It examines the existent missing link within the concept of orthodox preventive diplomacy, and explains why the concept was ineffective in resolving African conflicts and preventing their recurrence. In conclusion, it is asserted that, given the fact that both the character and the agents of conflicts changed from interstate to intrastate, a new preventive diplomacy is needed to successfully prevent deadly conflicts before they occur. A qualitative research method, with an exploratory approach, was adopted.
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- Authors: Niyitunga, Eric B.
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Diplomacy , Conflict management - Africa , Africa - Foreign relations
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/218644 , uj:21800 , Citation: Niyitunga, E.B. 2016. Assessing the missing link within the concept of preventive diplomacy with reference to African conflicts. Journal for Contemporary History, 41(2):229-250. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/ 10.18820/24150509/ JCH41.v2.12 , ISSN: 0258-2422 , ISSN: 2415-0509
- Description: Abstract: The role of preventive diplomacy is to prevent the emergence of violent conflicts, to prevent on-going conflicts from spreading and to prevent the relapse of an already settled conflict. The purpose of this article is to critically assess the existing gaps within the concept of preventive diplomacy that render it less appropriate in preventing and managing African conflicts in the post-Cold War era. The article gives an overview of the historical development of preventive diplomacy, referred to as orthodox preventive diplomacy. It examines the existent missing link within the concept of orthodox preventive diplomacy, and explains why the concept was ineffective in resolving African conflicts and preventing their recurrence. In conclusion, it is asserted that, given the fact that both the character and the agents of conflicts changed from interstate to intrastate, a new preventive diplomacy is needed to successfully prevent deadly conflicts before they occur. A qualitative research method, with an exploratory approach, was adopted.
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Contemplating the approach RAU’s founders towards radically transforming Afrikaans speaker identity in taking economic responsibility
- Authors: Klee, J. , Van Eeden, E.S.
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Teaching methods , Teaching systems , Philosophy
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/290008 , uj:31476 , Citation: Klee, J. & Van Eeden, E.S. 2018. Contemplating the approach RAU’s founders towards radically transforming Afrikaans speaker identity in taking economic responsibility. Journal for Contemporary History, 2018 43(2):78-95. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150509/JCH43.v2.5 , ISSN: 0258-2422
- Description: Abstract: This discussion on the former Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) covers the founding years of the University from 1955 to 1975. What should become clear from the contemplations is that the establishment of RAU in 1968 (today the University of Johannesburg), was not driven by the increase in the population of white Afrikaans speakers on the Witwatersrand or to act as a force against the liberal influences of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). The philosophy behind the establishment of RAU was mainly to reposition and empower white Afrikaans speakers with the education required to ensure that they could take their place in particularly the Witwatersrand as economic heartland of South Africa, and South Africa in general. Part of this approach by the founders was to create and develop RAU to become the most modern Afrikaans university of its time, providing quality teaching and learning of high local and international standards. The prominence of being a university driven by specific ideals contributed to the forming of the Afrikaans speaker’s identity in education and the national economy. As examples, this discussion mainly emphasises some new teaching methods introduced at the time, visibly blending with a refreshed view on the architectural design to accommodate the philosophical ideals envisioned for RAU. The founders’ vision was for RAU to become an educational instrument towards transforming white Afrikaans speaker identity within a modernised context.
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- Authors: Klee, J. , Van Eeden, E.S.
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Teaching methods , Teaching systems , Philosophy
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/290008 , uj:31476 , Citation: Klee, J. & Van Eeden, E.S. 2018. Contemplating the approach RAU’s founders towards radically transforming Afrikaans speaker identity in taking economic responsibility. Journal for Contemporary History, 2018 43(2):78-95. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150509/JCH43.v2.5 , ISSN: 0258-2422
- Description: Abstract: This discussion on the former Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) covers the founding years of the University from 1955 to 1975. What should become clear from the contemplations is that the establishment of RAU in 1968 (today the University of Johannesburg), was not driven by the increase in the population of white Afrikaans speakers on the Witwatersrand or to act as a force against the liberal influences of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). The philosophy behind the establishment of RAU was mainly to reposition and empower white Afrikaans speakers with the education required to ensure that they could take their place in particularly the Witwatersrand as economic heartland of South Africa, and South Africa in general. Part of this approach by the founders was to create and develop RAU to become the most modern Afrikaans university of its time, providing quality teaching and learning of high local and international standards. The prominence of being a university driven by specific ideals contributed to the forming of the Afrikaans speaker’s identity in education and the national economy. As examples, this discussion mainly emphasises some new teaching methods introduced at the time, visibly blending with a refreshed view on the architectural design to accommodate the philosophical ideals envisioned for RAU. The founders’ vision was for RAU to become an educational instrument towards transforming white Afrikaans speaker identity within a modernised context.
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