• Introducing Normativity in African International Politics 

      Abumere, Frank (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-21)
      With fifty-four states, Africa represents a microcosm of the Westphalian world. In conjunction with the Westphalian fragmentation of the continent, other fragmentations have compounded the intractable problem of ‘othering’ on the continent. The fragmentations sum up an African condition in the twenty-first century because they simultaneously represent the ‘divisions’ based on which Africans are ...
    • The problem with the individualist approach to the principle of the immunity of non-combatants 

      Abumere, Frank (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-25)
      The world is littered with wars in which innocent individual human beings, helpless groups of persons and harmless institutions are casualties because they are directly or indirectly targeted and attacked. The nature or composition of such casualties calls for a revision of, or at least leads one to question, the dominant approach to the principle of non-combatant immunity. In the just war theory, ...