https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/ad1ad42afd1607737bf330e745745a35.pdf 379e05d21f668753fc28b0c408f477d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa (NAI) Description An account of the resource <blockquote> In 2003 the Nordic Africa Institute initiated a project to identify archives in the Nordic countries, that cover documentation on anti-apartheid resistance and the liberation struggle in Southern Africa, mainly South Africa and Namibia, during 1960-1990. (Other countries are covered, see the information box in the right hand column.) Around this time, a large number of organisations in the Nordic countries e.g. government bodies, youth and church organisations, political parties and solidarity groups participated in the struggle. As a result, vast bilateral cooperation emerged and many well documented conferences and meetings were held in the Nordic countries and in Africa. Several visits to refugee camps in Africa and encounters with different leaders were also documented on videos, tapes and in pictures. Another result was this website that works as an reference source. It was launched on 24 April 2007. (<a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/">More about the website.</a>) Organisations in <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/denmark/">Denmark</a>, <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/finland/">Finland</a>, <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/iceland/">Iceland</a>, <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/norway/">Norway </a>and <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/sweden/">Sweden</a> have localized, catalogued and organized archives on the liberation struggle. The <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/archives/">archival lists</a> are available in a database, found on this website, that has been created to make the materials known and easily accessible for researchers, students and others who are interested in this part of the world history. The project was concluded in November 2009 with a <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/events/">workshop held in Pretoria, South Africa</a>. </blockquote> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, in partnership with: The Finnish Country Committee on Archives on Anti-Colonial Resistance and Liberation Struggle in Namibia SWAPO Party Archive & Research Centre The NGO Solidarity with Southern Africa (Sweden) Tchiweka (Angola) Aluka (South Africa & USA) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://www.liberationafrica.se/">http://www.liberationafrica.se/</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Nordic Africa Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource © Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Denmark and national liberation in Southern Africa : a flexible response Description An account of the resource This book describes and documents the development of Danish support to national liberation in Southern Africa and the two-sided humanitarian and political character of this support. It is based on previously restricted Danish ministry records and on NGO archives and interviews.The Nordic countries were unique in the Western world in their support to individuals, organisations and refugees, struggling to end institutionalised colonialism and racism and alleviate their humanitarian consequences. Nordic support was humanitarian and civilian, and to a large extent was given to refugees and to education. Increasingly, it came to involve national liberation movements and financial support to their civilian activities, at a time when these movements were politically and militarily struggling against the regimes in their countries-including the government of Portugal, a NATO military partner of Norway and Denmark.Danish support developed differently from that of the other Nordic countries. Official support was never given directly to liberation movements. Rather, Danish NGOs were employed to advise on Danish allocations and to distribute these allocations and carry out activities, using their own capacity or through their international networks. In the field of sanctions, Denmark shifted from a policy of awaiting a UN Security Council decision to imposing unilateral trade sanctions as the first Western country to do so, and the book analyses the political developments behind this.The study seeks to determine the events, rationales, arguments and decisions that led to the various forms of Danish support. Key questions are how Danish support was established as a purely humanitarian facility that later developed into supporting also the liberation movements, and how boycott was first considered to be an issue for the individual but eventually became national, official policy. The study seeks to describe why support and sanctions developed in the way and at the pace they did. Major factors involved were Danish public awareness of developments in Southern Africa, domestic political debates and mobilisation through NGOs.This focus on processes of change has been necessary in a field of Danish foreign relations that during the course of the research was recognised as being a very wide as well as a very interesting one. As a new field of research, and with the majority of the sources never having been studied before, this study has an aim to provide a platform for other researchers, journalists and students. Hopefully it will inspire others to investigate the whole issue further-or to consider it in a different perspective. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Christopher Munthe Morgenstierne Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Nordic Africa Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource © Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:241390/FULLTEXT01.pdf anti-apartheid Christopher Munthe Morgenstierne Denmark Nordic Africa Institute Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa SWAPO