Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa

Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament, de...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Curtis, Devon (-), Dzinesa, Gwinyayi Albert
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press 2012.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655436606719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The contested politics of peacebuilding in Africa / Devon Curtis
  • Peace as an incentive for war / David Keen
  • Statebuilding and governance : the conundrums of legitimacy and local ownership / Dominik Zaum
  • Security sector governance and peacebuilding / Eboe Hutchful
  • The limits of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration / Paul Omach
  • The role of the African Union, new partnership for Africa's development, and African Development Bank in postconflict reconstruction and peacebuilding / Gilbert M. Khadiagala
  • Peacebuilding as governance : the case of the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Public and Service / Chris Landsberg
  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission : problems and prospects / 'Funmi Olonisakin and Eka Ikpe
  • Financing peace? : the World Bank, reconstruction, and liberal peacebuilding / Graham Harrison
  • The International Criminal Court : a peacebuilder in Africa? / Sarah Nouwen
  • Sudan : the politics of negotiating peace / Sharath Srinivasan
  • Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region of Africa / Rene Lemarchand
  • Peacebuilding through statebuilding in West Africa? : the cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia / Comfort Ero
  • Oil and peacebuilding in the Niger Delta / Aderoju Oyefusi
  • Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in Southern Africa : Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique / Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa
  • Peacebuilding without a state : the Somali experience / Christopher Clapham.