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Books
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first OSSREA publication was the proceedings of the Eastern Africa Social
Science Consultative Group Workshop on the problems and prospects of
semi-arid areas. The workshop was held in Nazareth, Ethiopia, from 9-13
April 1980. This proceedings, which came out in November 1980, is
historically important for a number of reasons. It is the first proceedings
of OSSREA. The 1980 proceedings is also historically important because it
focuses on a subject which has been preoccupying OSSREA's conferences and
projects over and over again, regardless of whether they were organized
under such topics as environment, pastoralism, or rural development.
Furthermore, it was the conference that brought together the papers in this
proceedings which also gave birth to OSSREA, for apart from the deliberation
on the issues raised by the papers, one import agenda of the conference was
the establishment of OSSREA to succeed the Consultative Group.
One
other area of focus of OSSREA's conference proceedings is the teaching and
research of various disciplines in the social sciences. To date, three
volumes have been published in the area of teaching and research in
sociology and anthropology, economics, and political science.
Furthermore, four of OSSREA’s congresses, too, have resulted in the
publication of books on the crisis of African development strategies,
challenges of rural poverty, issues in African political and economic
transformation (2 vols.), and globalisation and Africa. Other themes of
OSSREA books are pastoralism, environment, gender, and research methods in
the social sciences. In 2001, OSSREA produced three volumes of a training
manual on research methods in the social sciences. This work, unlike the
first exploratory book produced by OSSREA in 1986 following its 1983
workshop on this topic, was commissioned by Organisation for use by trainees
who take part each year in the short course offered by OSSREA’s Research
Methodology Institute. The work is still at a trial stage and is expected to
be further refined in a couple of years using feedback received from
trainees and instructors, after which it will be made available for use by
other research and academic institutions in the region and elsewhere.
A
good number of the OSSREA books were published by OSSREA either
independently or in association with international publishers such as
Macmillan, Pluto, International Books, and Kluwer. The books published by
OSSREA so far are the following:
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Nhema, G. Alfred, ed. The Quest for Peace in Africa: Transformations, democracy, and public policy. Amsterdam: International Books, 2003; in association with OSSREA[TOC]
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Salih, M.A. Mohamed, ed. African Political Parties: Evolution, institutionalism and governance.
Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003; in association with OSSREA [TOC]
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Zewde Bahru, ed. Land, Gender and the Periphery: themes in the history of eastern and southern Africa.
Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 2003. [TOC]
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Mustafa Babiker, ed. Resource Alienation,
Militarisation and Development: Case Studies from East African Drylands.
Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 2002. [TOC]
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Frank Muhereza and Peter Ottim. Pastoral Resource
Competition in Uganda: Case Studies into Commercial Livestock Ranching
and Pastoral Institutions. The Netherlands: International Books,
2002.
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Taye
Assefa, Severine M. Rugumamu and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, eds. Globalization,
Democracy, and Development in Africa: Challenges and Prospects.
Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 2001.
[TOC]
[Abstract]
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M.
A. Mohamed Salih, Ton Dietz and Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed Ahmed. African
Pastoralism: Conflict, Institutions and Government. London: Pluto
Press, 2001; in association with OSSREA.[TOC]
[Abstract]
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Kassa
Negussie Getachew. Among the Pastoral Afar in Ethiopia: Tradition,
Continuity and Socio-Economic Change. KP Utrecht, the Netherlands:
International Books, 2001; in association with OSSREA.[TOC]
[Abstract]
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Kwesi
Kwaa Prah and Abdel Ghaffar Mohammed Ahmed, eds. Africa in
Transformation: Political and Economic Transformation and
Socio-Political Responses in Africa. Volume Two – Political and
Economic Reforms, Transformations and Gender Issues. Addis Ababa:
OSSREA, 2000.[TOC]
[Abstract]
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Kwesi
Kwaa Prah and Abdel Ghaffar Mohammed Ahmed, eds. Africa in
Transformation: Political and Economic Transformation and
Socio-Political Responses in Africa. Volume One – Political and
Economic Issues. Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 2000.[TOC]
[Abstract]
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Leif
Manger and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, eds. Pastoralists and Environment:
Experiences from the Greater Horn of Africa. Proceedings of the
regional workshops on African Drylands, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Addis
Ababa: OSSREA, 2000.[TOC]
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M.
A. Mohamed Salih and Shibru Tedla, eds. Environmental Planning,
Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa. Basingstoke,
UK: Macmillan Press, 1999; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999; in
association with OSSREA.[TOC]
[Abstract]
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Abdel
Ghaffar M. Ahmed and Wilfred Mlay, eds. Environment and Sustainable
Development in Eastern and Southern Africa: Some Critical Issues.
Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Press, 1998; New York: St. Martin’s Press,
1998; in association with OSSREA.[TOC]
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Abdel
Ghaffar M. Ahmed and Hassan A. Abdel Ati, eds. Managing Scarcity:
Human Adaptation in East African Drylands. Proceedings of a regional
workshop held on 24 –26 August 1995, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Addis
Ababa: OSSREA, 1996.[TOC]
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Michael
B.K. Darkoh, ed. African River Basins and Dryland Crises.
Workshop on African drylands, Nazareth, Ethiopia, April 1991. Uppsala,
Sweden: OSSREA and the Research Programme on Environment and
International Security, Department of Human and Physical Geography,
Uppsala University, 1992.[TOC] [Abstract]
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Eshetu
Chole, Wilfred Mlay and Walter Oyugi, eds. The Crisis of Development
Strategies in Eastern Africa. Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 1990.[TOC]
[Abstract]
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Zeinab
El-Bakri and Ruth M. Besha, eds. Women and Development in Eastern
Africa: An Agenda for Research. Proceedings of the workshop on women
and development in Eastern Africa, held in Nazareth, Ethiopia. Addis
Ababa: OSSREA, 1989.[TOC]
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Fassil
G. Kiros, ed. Challenging Rural Poverty: Experiences in
Institution-building and Popular Participation for Rural Development in
Eastern Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1985.[TOC]
[Abstract]
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Fassil
G. Kiros, ed. The Development Problems and Prospects of Semi-Arid
Areas in Eastern Africa. Proceedings of a workshop in Nazareth,
Ethiopia, 9 –13 April 1980. Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 1980.[TOC]
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