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In Eritrea, state, traditional, and religious laws equally prevail, but any of these legal systems may be put into play depending upon the individual or individuals involved in a legal dispute. Because of conflicting laws, it has been difficult for Eritreans to come to a consensus on what constitutes their legal system. In Blood, Land, and Sex, Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman examine the roles of the state, ethnic groups, religious groups, and the international community in several key areas of Eritrean law -- blood feud or murder, land tenure, gender relations (marriage, prostitution, rape), and female genital surgery. Favali and Pateman explore the intersections of the various laws and discuss how change can be brought to communities where legal ambiguity prevails, often to the grave harm of women and other powerless individuals. This significant book focuses on how Eritrea and other newly emerging democracies might build pluralist legal systems that will be acceptable to an ethnically and religiously diverse population.

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Exhaustive analysis of Eritrea-Sudan-Ethiopia relations
This is a thoroughly researched book that includes opinions, comments and analyses of scholars and commentators familiar with Eritrea's external relations. For readers interested in geopolitics, political economy, rural and agricultural development, and conflict resolution in North Africa, this is an essential read. It has three chapters dealing with the historical contexts of foreign relations, as well as a chapter analysing the role the US has played and will continue to play in the region, in particular with relation to the war on terror and keeping tabs on radicalism. The last chapter offers some conclusions and way forward. After reading 160 pages, you'll get a good grasp of the problems, issues, concerns and drivers surrounding the sustained conditions of hunger, poverty, armed conflict, poor governance, institutional failures and widespread underdevelopment in the Horn of Africa. The fact that is published jointly by Chatham and Brookings gives credibility to this scholarly work. Enjoyable reading! ... Read more

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Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Once hailed as theAfrican country that works,A" Eritrea's apparently successful post-independence development has since lapsed into economic crisis and severe human rights violations. This is due not only to the border war with Ethiopia that began in 1998, but is also the result of discernible tendencies in thehigh modernistA" style of social mobilization for development first adopted by the Eritrean government during the liberation struggle (1961-1991) and later carried into the post-independence era. The contributions to this volume reveal and interpret the links between development and developmentalist ideologies, intensifying militarism, and the controlling and disciplining of human lives and bodies by state institutions, policies, and discourses.Also assessed are the multiple consequences of these policies for the Eritrean people and the ways in which such policies are resisted or subverted. This insightful, comparative volume places the Eritrean case in a broader global and transnational context. ... Read more

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Eritrean independence under the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (now the People's Front for Democracy and Justice) became an international cause celebre during the 1980s. Eritrea was the first African nation to gain independence in the post-colonial period and appeared to be opening a new and progressive path in African politics. But the promise of the revolution was soon betrayed by the outbreak of war with Ethiopia, the PFDJ's increasingly repressive domestic policies, its mismanagement of the country's economy, and its hostile relations with its neighbours. The PFDJ government dismantled existing formal and informal institutions, crippled the private sector, banned private newspapers, civil and political society organisations, expelled international NGOs and aid agencies when over two-thirds of the population were dependent on food aid, detained without trial journalists, thousands of dissidents, and former leaders of the liberation struggle, and turned national service from an instrument of nation building and national integration into an instrument of open-ended forced labour. In this well-researched first account of post-independence Eritrea, Gaim Kibreab gives a detailed and critical analysis of how things went woefully wrong and how the former 'liberators' turned into oppressors with no respect for the rule of law, human rights and religious freedom. Gaim Kibreab is Professor of Research & Director of Refugee Studies, Department of Social & Policy Studies, London South Bank University ... Read more

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Chapters: Human Rights in Eritrea, Eritrean Telecommunications Corporation, Wefri Warsay Yika'alo, United Nations Observer Mission to Verify the Referendum in Eritrea, Cabinet of Ministers of Eritrea, List of Heads of State of Eritrea, Eritrean Free Zones Authority, Constitution of Eritrea, National Assembly of Eritrea, Regional Administrators of Eritrea, National Agricultural Research Institute, Eritrean Investment and Development Bank, Ministry of National Development, Regional Assemblies of Eritrea. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article is part of the series:Politics and government ofEritrea Human rights in Eritrea are viewed as poor. Eritrea is a one-party state in which national legislative elections have been repeatedly postponed, the judiciary is weak, and constitutional provisions protecting individual freedom have yet to be fully implemented. Security forces are responsible for unlawful killings. Observers in the West accuse the Government of Eritrea of arbitrary arrest and detentions and of detaining an unknown number of people without charge for their political activism. Freedom of speech and the press are severely constrained while freedom of assembly, association, movement, and religion also are restricted. Eritrean government officials and NGO representatives have participated in numerous public meetings and dialogues. In these sessions they have answered questions as fundamental as, "What are human rights?", "Who determines what are human rights?", and "What should take precedence, human or communal rights?" In Regional Assemblies and religious circles, Eritreans themselves speak out continuously against the use of female circumcision. They cite health concerns and individual freedom as being of primary concern when they ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3824009 ... Read more

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How Eritrea Got the Shaft from the USA, Ethiopia, etc.
This book does a good job of describing how the interests of the Eritrean people were sacrificed in the name of Ethiopian aggrandizement, British post-WW 2 decline, and American Cold War fears. Though Yohannes seems attimes to be less than objective, on balance I think he gives a concisepicture of the manner in which the so-called "free" world turnedits back on Eritrea's right to self-determination, all the while protestingcommunism's trampling of the same rights. The Eritreans, in fact, have beenso scarred psychologically by this hypocrisy that they now have a"bunker" mentality that sees no friends but many potential foes.This in part explains their intransigence towards Ethiopia about a fewsquare miles of worthless desert. This is a good purchase for anyonewanting a basic understanding of the now 50 year old Ethiopian-Eritreanconflict, which appears now to be entering a sixth decade, with no end insight. ... Read more

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This book is an anthropological account of the lives of the villagers in the Eritrean village of Mai Weini.It is a study of the people, their livelihood and land tenure during times of turbulence in the village and in the nation of Eritrea.Mai Weini, a village in the Eritrean highlands, has been faced with numerous challenges such as drought and the effects of the thirty-year war fought between Eritrean liberation fighters and the Ethiopian government.The war culminated in Eritrea's independence in 1993.The Eritrean war for independence, is one of the longest wars in Africa's history.In this comprehensive study of Mai Weini Tronvoll examines the question of how the people of rural Eritrea coped with the terrifying events of the war, and managed to maintain and reproduce a "kind of" normal life in the villages.

Mai Weini, or "Sweet Water" in English (lit. "water grape"), is a village composed of some 85 households and 333 inhabitants.It is a small cluster of dwellings situated in the rugged and barren mountainous landscape of Eritrea's highlands.In addition to exploring Mai Weini, however, the book also provides a general ethnographic account of the Tigrinya-speaking Semitic people of these highlands.Using Mai Weini as an example, basic questions are answered such as: How do the villagers live?How are their relationships among themselves organized?What are their activities during an annual cycle?How do they cope with the unpredictable whims of nature, and with possible crop failure?In what way has the war affected village life?To what degree does religious adherence influence their daily activities?What are the organizing principles of the land tenure system, and to what degree do they affect the organization of the village? ... Read more

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Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles is an exploration of the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, waged from 1961 to 1991, and the postindependence nation-building project. The book focuses on the way the Eritrean revolution drew refugees and exiles in the urban United States and nationalist guerrilla fighters in the Horn of Africa together in a common, yet contested, political agenda.

Through a combination of ethnography and creative exposition, anthropologist Tricia Redeker Hepner recounts the experiences of Eritreans in their homeland and in the United States, illuminating the lives of men and women who participated in the independence movement. Highlighting both the personal and institutional dimensions of political transformation and struggle, the book provides insight into how the transnational nature of the Eritrean revolution shaped diaspora communities and the nation-state, enhancing authoritarian rule while also inspiring resistance movements for democratization and human rights.

Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors and Exiles provides a moving and trenchant critique of political intolerance and violence, as well as an inspiring portrait of the strength and resilience of a people whose lives have been profoundly shaped by war, forced migration, and the promises and failures of nationalism in the global era.

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This book examines the rise and fall of the Ethio–Eritrean federation which existed from 1952 to 1962. The author argues that the federation was abolished by Eritrean social and political forces rather than by Ethiopia. The UN imposed federation and its constitution was doomed to fail, as these were foreign to Eritrean and Ethiopian conceptions of power. ... Read more

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VALUE LESS!!
This book is a product of a person who does not know what he is saying.Please nobody should weast his time reading this ethiopist ideas.

Excellent!
Excellent presentation. The book focuses more on passing on facts (excelent footnotes and appendix) to the reader than giving analysis of events and their significance from the author's point of view. It definitely sheds a new perspective of the beginning of the Ethio-Eritrean war. There is not much about TPLF, but there's an interesting coverage of rise and fall of ELF and the rise of EPLF. As strange as it may sound, the book also makes you appreciate that the war was carried out as it was. It makes you appreciate the Ethio-Eritrean civil society. ... Read more