Firearms may provide firearm owners with a means of self-defence in confrontations with criminals, but the unlawful use of a licensed firearm can have negative legal consequences.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Peace and Security
Displaying 41 - 60 of 1007 articles
Because waste pickers go through trash and leave behind everything without value, they know better than anyone which plastics should be eliminated.
With a new 5-in-1 vaccine, Nigeria hopes to contain the five most important serotypes causing meningitis in the country.
Malaria has been around longer than humankind. The endgame for this deadly parasitic disease is in sight.
Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
The security services that watch over South Africans today are a far cry from the instruments of minority rule of the apartheid era. They are subject to the constitution and the rule of law.
At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major exhibition in Cape Town.
For villagers in remote areas in Sierra Leone it takes a lot of time and money to get to a clinic. So the COVID-19 vaccine came to the people.
After 30 years of democracy, South Africa is in a deep electricity crisis which can only be solved if the government moves speedily to set up solar and wind plants.
A lot of good has happened since apartheid ended in 1994. Sadly, 30 years on, the country is in a political and economic crisis. Many are questioning the choices of the past three decades.
Emotional, violent and sexual abuse are rife at an age when victims are scarred for life.
The tunnel bringing millions of litres of water from dams in Lesotho to South Africa is to undergo a six-month repair. This could leave residents of Gauteng in South Africa short of water.
The level of microplastic pollution in Osun River may be the highest in the world. Banning single-use plastics may help.
Conservation strategies should promote equitable benefits across communities.
Kenya’s deployment to Haiti would contribute towards the country’s role in enhancing global peace and security.
The SADC mission shows how difficult it is to run a large-scale military intervention, especially if the host government is not taking full ownership and supporting the operation.
As South Africa heads towards elections, there is no quick fix solution to the electricity crisis in the country. What exactly are the political parties promising voters?
Same-sex relationships in Zulu culture are perceived as taboo and unAfrican. Some men who have sex with men avoid seeking care at health clinics.
Top contributors
-
Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, University College Dublin
-
Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
-
Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
-
Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
-
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
-
Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
-
Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
-
Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University
-
Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
-
Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
-
Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
-
Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
