The New Relevance of Traditional Authorities in Africa
The New Relevance of Traditional Authorities in Africa
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非洲传统权威的新意义
DOI：
10.1080/07329113.1996.10756473
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发表时间：
1996
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通讯作者：
E. Nieuwaal
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作者：
D. Ray;E. Nieuwaal
《法律多元化杂志》的这一期特刊源于《传统权威对发展、民主、人权和环境保护的贡献：非洲战略》会议。当我们计划这次会议时，大多数非洲国家目前民主参与和善政的机会似乎是史无前例的，但失败的可能性正明显逼近地平线。我们认为，造成这种情况的很大一部分原因在于当代非洲国家与传统权威(即酋长)之间被忽视的关系。在非洲大部分地区，国家结构和民间社会之间往往存在脱节。虽然普遍认为非洲的民主化应借鉴其文化传统，但很少有人系统地分析这种做法或能够做到的程度。我们认为，在许多非洲国家的民主化、发展、人权(包括性别)和环境保护领域，传统权威是当代国家和民间社会之间的独特联系，但这些联系往往没有得到承认、忽视或误解。这就是加剧这种情况的威胁。
This special issue of the Journal of Legal Pluralism grew out of the Conference on the Contribution of Traditional Authority to Development, Democracy, Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Strategies for Africa. When we planned this conference the current opportunities for democratic participation and good governance in most African states seemed unprecedented, yet the possibilities of failure were starkly looming on the horizon. We argued that a significant part of he reason for this lay in the overlooked relationships between the contemporary African state and traditional authority ie, chiefs. There has often been a disjuncture between state structures and civil society in much of Africa. While the view is widely held that Africa's democratization should draw from its cultural traditions, little has been done to analyze systematically the extent to which this does or can occur. We argued that traditional authority acted as a unique linkage between the contemporary state and civil society in many African countries in the areas of democratization, development, human rights (including gender) and environmental protection, but that these linkages were often unrecognized, ignored, or misunderstood. Herein lay the threat of exacerbation of that