Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781032329895 / Twarda / 2024 / 312 str.

Opis

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ongoing conflict in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, which has killed thousands and displaced a million people since 2017.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Egna Sidumo, Marko Svicevic and Martha M Bradley

 

 

Part I: Regional Security Dimensions 

 

Chapter 2: Tanzania and Mozambique: Cooperation to Counteract a Cross-Border Islamist Insurgency

Eric Kabendera

 

Chapter 3: South Africa’s Security Concerns in Mozambique and the Growing Threat of Domestic Terrorism

André Smit

 

Chapter 4: Armed Conflict, Climate Change and the Preparedness of International Law Through the Lens of Mozambique

Jessie Phyffer

 

Chapter 5: The Relationship Between Ansar al-Sunna in Mozambique and the Islamic State: A Transactional Alliance?

Aniel de Beer

 

 

Part II: International Humanitarian Law Perspectives

 

Chapter 6: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Classification of the Situation in Cabo Delgado as a Non-International Armed Conflict

Najimdeen Bakarae and Ayodele Odjedokun

 

Chapter 7: Ansar al-Sunna (IS-affiliates) Engaging in a Mosaic of Violence in Mozambique: Terrorist, Rebels, or Both – Legal Implications and Challenges

Gus Waschefort, Jessie Phyffer and Martha M. Bradley

 

Chapter 8: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Cabo Delgado: Implications for International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law

Emmah Lubaale and Brenda Akia

 

Chapter 9: Towards the Protection of the Environment in Cabo-Delgado: Looking Beyond the Existing Legal Framework and Engaging Ansar al-Sunna

Quillene M Vertue

 

Chapter 10: The Conflict in Cabo Delgado and the Relationship Between International Disaster Response Law and International Humanitarian Law Treaties

Jeanique Pretorius

 

Chapter 11: Covid-19 and its Implications on the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict: The Case of Mozambique

Annelize McKay, Chazanne Grobler and Martha M Bradley

 

 

Part III: Regional and Continental Responses to the Conflict

 

Chapter 12: The Potential for Rights-Based Third-Generation Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration Programmes in Cabo Delgado

Josephat M Kilonzo

 

Chapter 13: The Use of Private Military Companies to Counter the Insurgency in Northern Mozambique

Hennie Strydom

 

Chapter 14: The SADC Mission in Mozambique: Contextualising the Historical Role of SADC Military Operations under International Law

Marko Svicevic

 

Chapter 15: The Military Intervention Against Ansar Al-Sunna in Cabo Delgado: A Primer on the Law on the Prohibition on the Use of Force and Applicable Exceptions

Dire Tladi

 

Chapter 16: Revisiting the African Union’s Right to Intervene (Militarily) 20 Years on and the Conflict in Mozambique: A Missed Opportunity?

Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango

O autorze

Marko Svicevic is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law at Palacký University, Czech Republic and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the South African Research Chair in International Law at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Martha M. Bradley is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and an external expert at the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law at Palacký University, Czech Republic.