Tim Murithi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1548477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Murithi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Murithi |
| SIGNATURE | MURITHI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Security Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Book Discussion - Elections, Violence and Transitional Justice in Africa
The AU at Twenty Years
South Africa’s Struggle to Remember
Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts the frame from national discourses of transitional justice onto local memory actors who attempt to engage with these broader systems of meaning from below. The case study is based on the memory struggles of individuals and groups who are attempting to gain access to the discourses and benefits associate…
The African Union as a Norm Entrepreneur
This article will argue that despite its role as a norm entrepreneur the African Union ( au ), when analysed through the un Secretary-General’s 3-Pillar framework of responsibility, has only had limited success and faced significant constraints in promoting Pan-African norms relating to sovereignty and non-interference, governance and development in order to achieve human protection and the prevention of mass atrocities. Human protection refers t…
Africa's international relations in the 21stcentury
Africa's international relations in the 21 st century, edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Fantu Cheru and Timothy Shaw, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 272 pp., US$ 90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-2
Briefing
Journal Article Briefing: The African Union at Ten: An appraisal Get access Tim Murithi Tim Murithi * *Tim Murithi ([email protected]) is a Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State and Head of the Justice and Reconciliation Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume …
Transitional Justice and Development
This article argues that transitional justice processes should strive to incorporate development considerations in their scope as a means of ensuring that distributive justice is achieved. Distributive injustices – social, political, economic or cultural rights violations – are often the root causes of conflict, but transitional justice processes often do not give sufficient attention to them. This has been the case in countries such as South Afr…
Inter-governmental Authority on Development on the Ground
The Horn of Africa is beset by chronic insecurity and political tension, which has destabilized the region and undermined efforts to consolidate economic development and democratic governance. This article will focus on the emergence of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development, which was ostensibly tasked with promoting development among its member states. However, its mandate gradually expanded to address political, peace, and security is…
An African Perspective on Peace Education
Peacebuilding or ‘UN-Building’? African Institutional Responses to the Peacebuilding Commission
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The African Union's evolving role in peace operations
The African Union has been operational for close to five years now and it is appropriate to reflect on whether its peace and security architecture will achieve its objectives. In 2002, the AU adopted the Protocol on Peace and Security, which launched the creation of the Peace and Security Council, the African Standby Force, the Continental Early Warning Mechanism and the Panel of the Wise. This architecture is designed to oversee the successful i…
A local response to the global human rights standard
Some African leaders have made the argument that the promotion of an international human rights standard is a strategy that is used and abused by hypocritical Western governments to justify their intervention into the affairs of African countries. The tacit objective behind this articulation is the desire to avoid an external evaluation or monitoring of the internal affairs of their countries. The leaders who complain the most about the hidden ag…
Conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect in Africa
(2007). Conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect in Africa. African Security Review: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. iv-vi
The responsibility to protect, as enshrined in article 4 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union
This paper assesses the emergence of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as an international relations norm. Following a brief discussion of the genesis of this norm, it assesses the key aspects of R2P. It then examines the Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000) to analyse the extent to which R2P is enshrined and implicated in this document. The paper also discusses the extent to which the AU has sought to implement R2P through its commitme…
The African Union's evolving role in peace operations
The African Union has been operational for close to five years now and it is appropriate to reflect on whether its peace and security architecture will achieve its objectives. In 2002, the AU adopted the Protocol on Peace and Security, which launched the creation of the Peace and Security Council, the African Standby Force, the Continental Early Warning Mechanism and the Panel of the Wise. This architecture is designed to oversee the successful i…
An African Perspective on Peace Education
Briefing
Journal Article Briefing: The African Union at Ten: An appraisal Get access Tim Murithi Tim Murithi * *Tim Murithi ([email protected]) is a Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State and Head of the Justice and Reconciliation Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume …
The responsibility to protect, as enshrined in article 4 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union
This paper assesses the emergence of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as an international relations norm. Following a brief discussion of the genesis of this norm, it assesses the key aspects of R2P. It then examines the Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000) to analyse the extent to which R2P is enshrined and implicated in this document. The paper also discusses the extent to which the AU has sought to implement R2P through its commitme…
Transitional Justice and Development
This article argues that transitional justice processes should strive to incorporate development considerations in their scope as a means of ensuring that distributive justice is achieved. Distributive injustices – social, political, economic or cultural rights violations – are often the root causes of conflict, but transitional justice processes often do not give sufficient attention to them. This has been the case in countries such as South Afr…
A local response to the global human rights standard
Some African leaders have made the argument that the promotion of an international human rights standard is a strategy that is used and abused by hypocritical Western governments to justify their intervention into the affairs of African countries. The tacit objective behind this articulation is the desire to avoid an external evaluation or monitoring of the internal affairs of their countries. The leaders who complain the most about the hidden ag…
The African Union as a Norm Entrepreneur
This article will argue that despite its role as a norm entrepreneur the African Union ( au ), when analysed through the un Secretary-General’s 3-Pillar framework of responsibility, has only had limited success and faced significant constraints in promoting Pan-African norms relating to sovereignty and non-interference, governance and development in order to achieve human protection and the prevention of mass atrocities. Human protection refers t…
A local response to the global human rights standard
Some African leaders have made the argument that the promotion of an international human rights standard is a strategy that is used and abused by hypocritical Western governments to justify their intervention into the affairs of African countries. The tacit objective behind this articulation is the desire to avoid an external evaluation or monitoring of the internal affairs of their countries. The leaders who complain the most about the hidden ag…
Conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect in Africa
(2007). Conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect in Africa. African Security Review: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. iv-vi
The responsibility to protect, as enshrined in article 4 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union
This paper assesses the emergence of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as an international relations norm. Following a brief discussion of the genesis of this norm, it assesses the key aspects of R2P. It then examines the Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000) to analyse the extent to which R2P is enshrined and implicated in this document. The paper also discusses the extent to which the AU has sought to implement R2P through its commitme…
Peacebuilding or ‘UN-Building’? African Institutional Responses to the Peacebuilding Commission
Description to be added
The African Union's evolving role in peace operations
The African Union has been operational for close to five years now and it is appropriate to reflect on whether its peace and security architecture will achieve its objectives. In 2002, the AU adopted the Protocol on Peace and Security, which launched the creation of the Peace and Security Council, the African Standby Force, the Continental Early Warning Mechanism and the Panel of the Wise. This architecture is designed to oversee the successful i…
Inter-governmental Authority on Development on the Ground
The Horn of Africa is beset by chronic insecurity and political tension, which has destabilized the region and undermined efforts to consolidate economic development and democratic governance. This article will focus on the emergence of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development, which was ostensibly tasked with promoting development among its member states. However, its mandate gradually expanded to address political, peace, and security is…
An African Perspective on Peace Education
Transitional Justice and Development
This article argues that transitional justice processes should strive to incorporate development considerations in their scope as a means of ensuring that distributive justice is achieved. Distributive injustices – social, political, economic or cultural rights violations – are often the root causes of conflict, but transitional justice processes often do not give sufficient attention to them. This has been the case in countries such as South Afr…
Briefing
Journal Article Briefing: The African Union at Ten: An appraisal Get access Tim Murithi Tim Murithi * *Tim Murithi ([email protected]) is a Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State and Head of the Justice and Reconciliation Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume …
Africa's international relations in the 21stcentury
Africa's international relations in the 21 st century, edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Fantu Cheru and Timothy Shaw, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 272 pp., US$ 90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-2
South Africa’s Struggle to Remember
Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts the frame from national discourses of transitional justice onto local memory actors who attempt to engage with these broader systems of meaning from below. The case study is based on the memory struggles of individuals and groups who are attempting to gain access to the discourses and benefits associate…
The African Union as a Norm Entrepreneur
This article will argue that despite its role as a norm entrepreneur the African Union ( au ), when analysed through the un Secretary-General’s 3-Pillar framework of responsibility, has only had limited success and faced significant constraints in promoting Pan-African norms relating to sovereignty and non-interference, governance and development in order to achieve human protection and the prevention of mass atrocities. Human protection refers t…
Book Discussion - Elections, Violence and Transitional Justice in Africa
The AU at Twenty Years
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Human rights (4 works)