The Resolution of African Conflicts
The Management of Post-conflict Resolution and Post-conflict Reconstruction
Published on 17. January 2008
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-84701-303-3 (ISBN)
Description
Offers analyses of a range of African conflicts and demonstrates that peace is too important to be left to outsiders.
Reviews / Votes
These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies. They offer sober and serious analyses, eschewin,g * . *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84701-303-3 (9781847013033)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Professor Alfred G. Nhema is the Director of the School of Government. His research interests are in the areas of Democracy and Governance, Public Administration, Public Policy, Peace and Conflict. He is the Editor of The Resolution of African Conflicts: the Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (2008) and The Roots of African Conflicts: the Causes and Costs (2008). Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Vice Chancellor at United States International University-Africa.
Content
Introduction: the resolution of African conflicts by Alfred Nhema; The role of regional & international actors: a framework for a working peace system by Victor A.O. Adetula; The role of the OAU & the AU by P. Godfrey Okoth; The continental early warning system of the African Union by Jakkie Cilliers; The International Criminal Court & the LRA insurgency in northern Uganda by Kasaija Philip Apuuli; How to make democracy work? Local government in South Africa by Ursula Scheidegger; Local government & the management of conflict in fragmented societies: South Africa, Namibia & Mauritius compared by Christof Hartmann; Conflict resolution in the Sudan by Idris Salim El Hassan; Elections & conflict in southern Africa by Khabele Matlosa; The Somali peace process by Kizito Sabala, Aisha Ahmad & Edwin Rutto; Post-conflict Mozambique by Brazao Mazulu.