International Energy Agency (IEA), 148

International Military Education & Training (IMET), 208

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 231

Intertropical convergence zone's (ITCZ), 25

Iraq, xii, 21, 171, 204

Islamic extremism, 58, 67–68, 77, 88

Islamic caliphate, 175

Islamist terrorism, 173

Islamo-Wolofization, 100

Israel, 170, 202

Izala, 20–21

Jama’at izalat al-bid’a wa Iqamat as-Sunna, 20

Jammeh, Yayah, 102–103

Janjaweed, 41–42, 59, 193

Jervis, Robert, 5

Johannesburg, 118, 121, 217

Joint Permanent Technical Commission, 221

Joint Technical Management Committee (KAZA), 223

Jola, 90–91, 93–96, 98–104, 108–109

Joint Humanitarian Operations Course (JHOC), 212

Jordan, 207

River, 202

Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), 41, 43

Kampala, 190

Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area or Project. See also KAZA, 213, 240

KAZA. See also Kavango-Zambizi Trans-frontier Conservation Area, xv, 213–217, 219–220, 223–235, 240

Kenya, xiv, 58–59, 64–66, 68–74, 77–82, 84–86, 150, 162–164, 166–167, 196, 242

Kenya-Ethiopia border. See also Mandera, 69, 78

Kinshasa, 188, 190

Klein, Richard J. T., 144

Kountche, Colonel Senyni, 18

Kukuyama, Francis, 7

Kyoto Protocol, 154, 230

Lake Kariba, 121

land mines, 19, 89, 92–93, 101, 104, 106

Lands of the Islamic Mahghreb. See also AQIM, 175

Liberia, 94, 105, 108, 186–187, 190–191, 209

Libya, 47, 54, 175

living systems theory (LST), 5–7

Lloyd, Robert, 91, 94, 96, 107–108

Lords Resistance Army (LRA), 190

Luanda. See also Angola, 224

Madrid Conference, 170

Malaria, 10, 13–14, 37, 61, 128–129, 138, 144, 150, 161, 163, 175, 179

Malawi, 161, 174

Mali, 30, 33–34, 39, 50, 135, 175

Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi, 173

Malthus, Thomas, 12–13

Mandela, Nelson, 222

Mandera. See also Kenya-Ethiopia border, 78