ABSTRACT Many young Ghanaians risk their lives to cross the Sahara-desert and the Mediterranean Sea to seek greener pastures in Europe. By so doing they expose themselves to this dangerous journey, and some even lose their lives. It is for this reason that this dissertation sought to ascertain the causes of and effort made by Ghana to curb irregular migration through the Sahara-desert and the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. The study is qualitative and relied on both primary and secondary data. ...
ABSTRACT In recent years, Ghana has become a major transshipment point of illicit drugs. This has attracted both domestic and global attention. The government of Ghana has instituted various approaches to dismantle the illicit drug industry, but has seen only marginal success. One strategy that has emerged as an effective pathway to tackling the drug trafficking menace is cooperation between/among countries. Due to the transnational nature of drug trafficking, various countries have explored ...
ABSTRACT A major gap in literature on the Ghana Police Service (GPS) is the lack of scholarly work on the Service’s role in international peacekeeping as a means by which Ghana promotes its national interest and foreign policy objectives. This study assessed the GPS’ participation in international peacekeeping operations as a modern tool of foreign policy within the context of its achievements and challenges, through the utilization of primary and secondary data. Major findings of the stu...
ABSTRACT Sexual harassment has become a bane globally and while most organizations have adopted some form of resistance towards it, others have treated it like a “white elephant”, and would rather adopt a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy with respect sexual harassment. One very important global institution is the United Nations. The purpose of this research is to provide an insight into sexual harassment and how deep this phenomenon has eaten into society. In doing so, this paper ...
ABSTRACT Many studies exist on globalisation and the impact it has had on the cultures of the world. Cultural globalisation, which is an offshoot of globalisation has heavily influenced world cultures including the kind of hair choices black women make. These studies are, however, mainly on black women in the Diaspora. Very little literature exists on Ghanaian women and how globalisation has affected their hair choices. Using mainly primary sources and complimented by secondary data, this st...
ABSTRACT This study examines the ECOWAS Regional Action Plan and the Fight against Illicit Drug Trafficking in Ghana. It throws light on perceived challenges associated with controlling the drug situation in the country. Additionally, it analyses policy interventions, implemented to deal with drug trafficking and then finally, projects some achievements of the ECOWAS Regional Action Plan in Ghana and suggests measures for improvement. Using the case of security personnel from Narcotics Contro...
ABSTRACT Exploring Intellectual Property (IP) system to facilitate research activities and transfer of advanced technology to harness creativity and innovation has become an issue of global debate. Using Ghana as a case study for the period 2003-2013, the study examined the role, prospects and challenges for exploring IP systems to stimulate Ghana’s domestic creativity and innovation. The study employed qualitative research approach, utilizing a purposive sampling method to obtain primary d...
ABSTRACT Following post-electoral crisis in Kenya and Cote D’Ivoire, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted some political leaders from the two countries. Those indicted included Laurent Gbagbo and Uhuru Kenyatta of Cote D’Ivoire and Kenya respectively. The ICC’s action was subsequently criticized as injurious to democracy in Africa, particularly in the case of Kenyatta who had been elected as president of Kenya. This study examined the role of the ICC with regard to democratic...
ABSTRACT The study measured the extent of democratic consolidation through the spectrum of constitutional reforms, elections and the independence of the electoral commission, institutional structures, constitutionalism and rule of law, civil society organisations, freedom of the media, electoral violence, ethnicity and sub-regionalism, socio-economic challenges, corruption, security-sector challenges, and the role of the international community. It did a comparative analysis of the extent to ...
ABSTRACT Despite great strifes at resolving civil wars and political crisis in West Africa, interpersonal and group conflicts continue to threaten the stability and security of states within the sub region. Contemporarily, these states are described as having weak institutions, poor infrastructure and poor human resource capacity necessary for resolving the root sources of the conflicts. Given the aforementioned structural and agency difficulties, the study set out to investigate the efficie...
ABSTRACT Technology has become the byword in the era of globalization. It can be attested of in various aspects of life as we know it. In Ghana, however, most especially in the business world, the use of technology has been cited as a phenomenon to be feared as, according to the understanding of most workers in this field, that, the entrance of technology into an organization is most often than not, a way for organizations to purge themselves of mostly the older generations in the working sec...
ABSTRACT Terrorism is one of the greatest security threats to many West African states currently. For instance, in the Lake Chad Basin area, Nigeria and other states are aggressively fighting the Boko Haram and the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militants. Westward toward the Sahara is another group of five states, the G5 Sahel Group, also fiercely fighting incessant violence by jihadist groups affiliated to al Qaeda and the Islamic State. However, rat...
ABSTRACT The 1992 Constitution of Ghana has provisions that follow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, making particular reference to the rights of women and violence and discrimination against women, such as the Domestic Violence Act (Act 732) which was passed in 2007. Despite all well-intentioned constitutional provisions for women’s rights, however, gender-based violence is still prevalent in Ghana. This dissertation researches the effects of gender-based violence on the socio-e...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine how anarchy affects the international system, particularly in the UNSC organ that depicts the realists‘ model of world politics. The study relied on both scholarly literature and key UN documents, particularly the UN Charter to analyze and discuss how anarchy affects the functions and roles of the UNSC to maintain international peace and security in the world. It is an arena where states conduct their foreign policy through the national interest as well ...
ABSTRACT Monetary union has become a contentious issue in recent times especially since the successful launch of the European monetary zone. The African Union has plans to create an economic and monetary union for its members. This will involve the creation of a new unified currency for the whole of Africa. This work seeks to give an appraisal of the significance of a monetary union to Africa, look at the challenges and prospects of such an agenda and determine whether or not a monetary union...