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The UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice (2016)
Book Chapter
Weiss, T. G., Plesch, D., & Owen, L. (2016). The UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice. In G. Ziccardi Capaldo (Ed.), Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2015 (71-109). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780190647759.003.0005

The history of international legal institutions has largely ignored the early activities of the United Nations, specifically of the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC). Based on an assessment of its work and with access to new archival evidence, contemp... Read More about The UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice.

Unity Through Diversity: A Case Study of Chrislam in Lagos (2016)
Journal Article
Janson, M. (2016). Unity Through Diversity: A Case Study of Chrislam in Lagos. Africa, 86(4), 646-672. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000607

This article presents an ethnographic case study of Chrislam, a series of religious movements that fuse Christian and Muslim beliefs and practices, in its socio-cultural and political-economic setting in Nigeria’s former capital Lagos. Against conven... Read More about Unity Through Diversity: A Case Study of Chrislam in Lagos.

Questioning Methods of Nollywood Studies (2016)
Book Chapter
Agina, A. (2016). Questioning Methods of Nollywood Studies. In O. Okome, & M. Okhakhu (Eds.), Media Studies in Nigeria: Genesis and Detours (295-310). Stirling-Horden Publishers

Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War) (2016)
Journal Article
Rettová, A. (2016). Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War). Comparative Literature, 68(4), 389-407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3698477

A central discussion in African Philosophy concerns the “African concept of time,” famously theorized by John S. Mbiti. Mbiti makes a distinction between a circular and a linear concept of time, associating the former with Africa and the latter with... Read More about Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War).

The Triple Dividend of Resilience—A New Narrative for Disaster Risk Management and Development (2016)
Book Chapter
Tanner, T., Surminski, S., Wilkinson, E., Reid, R., Rentschler, J., Rajput, S., & Lovell, E. The Triple Dividend of Resilience—A New Narrative for Disaster Risk Management and Development. In S. Surminski, & T. Tanner (Eds.), Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management (1-29). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40694-7_1

To secure development gains and help eradicate poverty in the long run, it is critical to strengthen ex-ante disaster risk management (DRM) measures that build resilience at the household, firm and macro level. Decision-makers however often view DRM... Read More about The Triple Dividend of Resilience—A New Narrative for Disaster Risk Management and Development.

kososel tamlon uy kyepohak: wiliem sukhillentu <kotaysosel> uy yenkwusacek uyuy (Genealogy of the Discourse on Korean Traditional Novels: A Study on the Academic Significance of Professor W. E. Skillend's <Kodae Sosol> (2016)
Journal Article
Ahn, D., & Yeon, J. (2016). kososel tamlon uy kyepohak: wiliem sukhillentu uy yenkwusacek uyuy (Genealogy of the Discourse on Korean Traditional Novels: A Study on the Academic Significance of Professor W. E. Skillend's . Nammyeonghag yeon'gu, 52, 121-170. https://doi.org/10.14381/NMH.2016.52.12.30.121

Interrogating and reviewing legal and policy frameworks governing acid mine drainage in South Africa (2016)
Book Chapter
Lwabukuna, O. (2016). Interrogating and reviewing legal and policy frameworks governing acid mine drainage in South Africa. In M. Mujuru, & S. S. Mutanga (Eds.), Management and Mitigation of Acid Mine Drainage in South Africa: Input for Mineral Beneficiation in Africa (123-148). Africa Institute of South Africa. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r359.15

Mining is South Africa’s historical breadbasket and it has brought great economic wealth to the nation. It has equally been accompanied by giant environmental and social baggage in the form of social inequalities and ills, the apartheid machinery and... Read More about Interrogating and reviewing legal and policy frameworks governing acid mine drainage in South Africa.

Before and After the Wheel: Precolonial and Colonial States and Transportation in Mainland Southeast Asia and West Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Charney, M. W. (2016). Before and After the Wheel: Precolonial and Colonial States and Transportation in Mainland Southeast Asia and West Africa. Humanetten, 37, 9-38. https://doi.org/10.15626/hn.20163702

The present article seeks to demonstrate the important influence pre-colonial roads and overland transportation had on the emergence of modern transportation systems in modern Africa and Southeast Asia. To do so, it examines the pre-colonial and colo... Read More about Before and After the Wheel: Precolonial and Colonial States and Transportation in Mainland Southeast Asia and West Africa.

Inner Life, Politics and the Secular: Is there a ‘Spirituality’ of Subalterns and Dalits? Notes on Gramsci and Ambedkar. (2016)
Journal Article
Zene, C. (2016). Inner Life, Politics and the Secular: Is there a ‘Spirituality’ of Subalterns and Dalits? Notes on Gramsci and Ambedkar. Rethinking Marxism, 28(3-4), 540-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2016.1243420

When discussing the plight of subaltern groups, scholars often underline the economic and material troubles suffered by “the poor” through the perpetration of unjust exploitation, unequal distribution of wealth, and more generally, their being subjec... Read More about Inner Life, Politics and the Secular: Is there a ‘Spirituality’ of Subalterns and Dalits? Notes on Gramsci and Ambedkar..

Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: a cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda (2016)
Journal Article
Montgomery, P., Hennegan, J., Dolan, C., Wu, M., Steinfield, L., & Scott, L. (2016). Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: a cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda. PLoS ONE, 11(12), Article e0166122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166122

BACKGROUND:
Poor menstrual knowledge and access to sanitary products have been proposed as barriers to menstrual health and school attendance. In response, interventions targeting these needs have seen increasing implementation in public and private... Read More about Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: a cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda.

Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference? (2016)
Book Chapter
Iwasaki, N. (2016). Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?. In N. Iwasaki, P. Sells, & K. Akita (Eds.), The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (193-218). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695-10

This chapter addresses the issues by examining how first language (L1) English or Korean speakers of second language (L2) Japanese describe Motion events depicted in animated cartoons, by first selecting Motion events for which many L1 Japanese speak... Read More about Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?.

Review of: Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices by Mohammad Shahabuddin (2016)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2016). Review of: Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices by Mohammad Shahabuddin. Melbourne journal of international law, 17(2), 489-493

Mohammad Shahabuddin’s book is a comprehensive and much-needed historical study of the role of ethnicity in the making of international law. It calls for a heightened attention to a pair of opposites: the nineteenth-century Romantic idea of the natio... Read More about Review of: Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices by Mohammad Shahabuddin.