{"id":199729,"date":"2016-03-18T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=199729"},"modified":"2016-03-18T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T06:00:30","slug":"analyze-conflicts-for-effective-resolution-aning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=199729","title":{"rendered":"Analyze conflicts for effective resolution – Aning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning, is asking\u00a0the country\u2019s security agencies to invest their efforts into analyzing the root causes of conflicts in order to deal adequately with anticipated election-related violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Aning gave the advice when he was speaking about security concerns ahead of the November polls.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”9SOpmiytZuTmFdCCtOynfGou8m8tHiaI”]He admitted the 2016 elections would be fiercely contested and pointed out\u00a0three kinds of election-related violence that might happen before, during and after the November polls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Physical Violence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat is direct assault, mob actions, macho men intimidating…lynching, murder malicious deliberate wanton destruction of property\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Disruption of political activities\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Annin also said there is likely to be \u201cdisruption of political activities”\u00a0such as\u00a0rallies among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

He cautioned both security personnel and political parties \u201cnot to think those activities are good for everybody\u201d because some people \u201cwill deliberately try to disrupt them\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be molestation, downright hooliganism. Some people will try to threaten your offices, try to detain you without warrant and do other things that are quite new in our political landscape\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Psychological violence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The third kind of violence Dr. Aning termed as \u201cpsychological violence\u201d, includes\u00a0\u201cpolitical intimidation, grandstanding and death threats through anonymous phone calls and text messages\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Aning said an understanding of all forms of violence irrespective of the size, is a first step to checking the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMore often than not, we don\u2019t quarrel among ourselves but because of the expectation of public good that we may have access to, we tend to fight.\u00a0<\/span>We need to understand and appreciate the prevailing security realities in the constituency and what is the nature of the electoral competitiveness where your organisation is working.”<\/span><\/p>\n

He urged security personnel to understand some of the other underpinning factors which may lead to more violence.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Eugenia Tenkorang\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning, is asking\u00a0the country\u2019s security agencies to invest their efforts into analyzing the root causes of conflicts in order to deal adequately with anticipated election-related violence. Dr. Aning gave the advice when he was speaking about security concerns ahead of the November polls. [contextly_sidebar id=”9SOpmiytZuTmFdCCtOynfGou8m8tHiaI”]He admitted the 2016 elections would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":118094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}