Browsing by Author "Omona, David Andrew"

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    Alcohol Abuse and Addiction
    (The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies, 2020) Omona, David Andrew
    Alcohol is a substance that people have consumed from time immemorial. Numerous examples from ancient literatures and myths allude to alcohol consumption as a part of cultural celebrations. In some societies rituals and ceremonies were not complete without alcohol use. However, “enduring alcohol consumption and the passing down of this habit through generations does not adequately explain why alcohol is consumed” (Freeman and Parry 2006). What certainly have changed over the years are the patterns of alcohol use. Available evidence suggests that the quantity of alcohol consumed is far greater today than in earlier times (Freeman and Parry 2006). The 2004 World Health Organization (WHO) estimate of the people who consume alcohol around the world stands at two billion (World Health Organization 2014).
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    Bed Diplomacy
    (2021) Omona, David Andrew
    Bed diplomacy is an informal kind of diplomacy where peaceful relationship between two or more parties is hatched, enacted, cemented, maintained, and reenacted through marriage. This form of establishing, maintaining, and reenacting relationships between people of diverse traditions has been part of human interaction from antiquity. Whereas right from antiquity women were blamed for all ills of life, as seen in the writings of the Greek Hesiod in the myth of the great woman “Pandora” – who is believed to have “opened the lid of a jar containing all plagues and diseases of the world and let them out” (Pomeroy et al. 2004, p. 72), they also have invariably been the source of enacting, maintaining, and reenacting peaceful relationships between people who are or would have been enemies
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    Indigenous Peacebuilding
    (The Palgrave encyclopedia of global security studies, 2020) Omona, David Andrew
    Conflict, “the pursuit of incompatible goals by different groups” (Miall et al. 2005, p. 22), has been part of humanity from antiquity. Given its destructive nature, every human society has an imbued mechanism to address conflicts using principles and practices central to the support of reconciliation and amnesty.