2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Comparative Research on Genocide and Mass Violence

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530471
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Hiroshima City University
Principal Investigator	SCHERRER C・p 広島市立大学, 広島平和研究所, 教授 (10347619)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2011
Keywords	ジェノサイド / 現代の紛争 / 紛争や犯罪の根源の分析 / 紛争予防 / ジェノサイド予防 / 先住民族の権利保護 / 先住民族の権利拡大
Research Abstract	Given that violent conflicts had been most prominent in Africa throughout the period of 2008-11, the focus of the research has been set accordingly. Each year, field-research in Africa, the world's most conflict-prone continent was followed by interviews and observations at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, focusing on peace and security issues. Recent research also focussed on the ever-expanding piracy threat, driven by the break-down of Somalia as a state into a situation of total lawlessness, which spread out from the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Aden further afield and southwards as far as the East African community(coasts of Kenya, Tanzania and North of Mozambique as well as the Seychelles Islands(most exposed of all), and the Comoros Islands.