Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Preface
- Map 1 Provinces, Main Towns and Ethno-linguistic Groups of Eritrea
- 1 Introduction: The Eritrean Garrison State
- 2 Judicial Development in Independent Eritrea: Legal Pluralism and Political Containment
- 3 Rule of Law(lessness): The Special Court and the Judiciary
- 4 Democratic Curtailment: ‘Never Democracy, Always Control!’
- 5 Obliterating Civil Society: Denying Freedom of Organisation and Expression
- 6 The Eritrean Gulag Archipelago: Prison Conditions, Torture and Extrajudicial Killings
- 7 Everyday Life of Detention and Disappearances: Vulnerable Groups in a Population Under Siege
- 8 Minority Marginalisation: EPLF's Policies of ‘Cultural Superiority’
- 9 Diversity Diminished: Targeting the Kunama Minority Group
- 10 The Militarisation of Eritrean Society: Omnipresent and Never-Ending Military Service
- 11 Eritrea: Towards a Transition?
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Preface
- Map 1 Provinces, Main Towns and Ethno-linguistic Groups of Eritrea
- 1 Introduction: The Eritrean Garrison State
- 2 Judicial Development in Independent Eritrea: Legal Pluralism and Political Containment
- 3 Rule of Law(lessness): The Special Court and the Judiciary
- 4 Democratic Curtailment: ‘Never Democracy, Always Control!’
- 5 Obliterating Civil Society: Denying Freedom of Organisation and Expression
- 6 The Eritrean Gulag Archipelago: Prison Conditions, Torture and Extrajudicial Killings
- 7 Everyday Life of Detention and Disappearances: Vulnerable Groups in a Population Under Siege
- 8 Minority Marginalisation: EPLF's Policies of ‘Cultural Superiority’
- 9 Diversity Diminished: Targeting the Kunama Minority Group
- 10 The Militarisation of Eritrean Society: Omnipresent and Never-Ending Military Service
- 11 Eritrea: Towards a Transition?
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book is based upon the authors' long-term research and advocacy work for human rights in Eritrea. The direct inspiration for the book is a commissioned study undertaken by Kjetil Tronvoll on behalf of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights in 2009. The President of the Oslo Centre, Mr Kjell Magne Bondevik, former Prime Minister of Norway, had at that time just stepped down as a UN Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa and wanted to continue his human rights engagement in the region – thus commissioning a report on the dire situation in Eritrea. Thanks are thus due to Mr Bondevik and the Oslo Centre for commissioning the initial report. This book, however, is based upon an expanded and updated manuscript.
Several individuals have served as research assistants to this work, and special thanks go to Annie Golden Bersagel, Anette Frölich, Dag Rune Sameien, Tarana Riddick, Ann-Therese B. O. Kildal and Natasha Telson.
The International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) has a dedicated Eritrea research group of some of the world's leading experts on human rights and political development in Eritrea. ILPI is obliged to closely research and monitor the situation in Eritrea, in order to provide analytical works and policy advice to the international community for the purpose of conflict mitigation and alleviation of the long-term plight of the Eritrean people.
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- The African Garrison StateHuman Rights and Political Development in Eritrea, pp. ixPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014