Eritrea: Towards Unity in Diversity
- ISBN-10
- 1897693710
- ISBN-13
- 9781897693711
- Series
- Eritrea
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- MRG
- Author
- David Pool
Description
Emerging from a devastating 30-year war, the new Eritrean government's efforts to reconstruct its multi-ethnic society and transform its economy have been hailed as a model of nation-building. MRG's Report discusses the drawing up of a constitution which will aim to ensure a variety of rights. However, the question remains, how far will these rights be guaranteed in practice? For example, how far can Eritrea protect the rights of minorities and. At the same tine, promote the unity of the state? In seeking to answer these issues, the Report's author also examines how far the new government - whose members are overwhelmingly former freedom-fighters - can be said to be governing for all Eritrea's people? The Report pinpoints a series of important questions facing the government, from the environment and land rights, with the potential problems of scare land being given to returning refugees; on the extent to which women's liberation, a battle largely won by female freedom-fighters, will be upheld in peacetime; to the challenge of seeking to ensure that the parity of minority languages is recognized in education. (Adapted from Publisher's Abstract).
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