Can The United Nations Security Council Be Democratized?

Ade-Ibijola, Aderemi Opeyemi

doi:10.5296/ijch.v2i2.8477

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“…In so far as the United Nations Security Council is concerned, we argue that it has also failed to be democratic in as much as it has failed to be “inclusive” and to “decentre” power from the United States which has, for a long time, dominated the Security Council. While the demand for the democratization and expansion of permanent membership is one of the most popular issues challenging the United Nations system (Ade-Ibijola, 2015), the organization has consistently failed to democratize and to expand permanent membership to include the majority of the world population. Much as in the so-called failed, corrupt, undemocratic states, the United Nations is also facing a legitimacy crisis due to the absence of security and democracy in the Security Council (Kochler, 2007).…”

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Worse Than “Bushmen” and Transhumance? Transitology and the Resilient Cannibalization of African Heritages

Nhemachena

Warikandwa

Mpofu

2020

Journal of Black Studies

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Although Eurocentric scholars theorize the world in terms of Western evolutionary progress rather than de-evolutionary retrogression, this paper takes a different perspective. Forced to transition away from their tangible and intangible heritages, from their families and marriages, cultures, societies, polities, and economies in ways that legitimized imperial claims to res nullius (unowned resources) and terra nullius (empty land), some indigenous people wittingly and unwittingly increasingly devolved their heritages to the colonialists that benefited from the African transitions. The point here is that unlike “Bushmen” and those that practiced transhumance, contemporary Africans are forced to transition, to change and to transform away from owning and controlling their tangible and intangible resources, including land, culture, laws, religions, polities, economies, livestock, families, marriages, and so on. Whereas “Bushmen” and transhumance migrated and transitioned while retaining ownership and control over their land, forests, livestock, and so on, contemporary Africans are forced to transition in ways that divorce them from their families, marriages, cultures, religions, polities, and from ownership of their material resources. Because Eurocentric forms of transition put African institutions and resources on the chopping boards, we argue that this kind of transition is cannibalistic. Made to believe that transition is easier to accomplish without the supposed burden of repossessing ownership and control over one’s resources, Africans are witnessed as disinherited and wandering around the world arguably in ways that even precolonial “Bushmen” and transhumance pastoralists would not envy. There is no justice in “transitional justice” that transitions indigenous people from their heritages.

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