Full Description
Offers analyses of a range of African conflicts and demonstrates that peace is 'too important to be left to outsiders'.
In this companion volume to The Roots of African Conflicts African scholars analyse a number of conflicts and their resolution - demonstrating the importance of their resolution and their impact on the wider continent
'...The studies in these two books seek to advance our understanding of African conflicts by going beyond the conventional and fashionable analyses of Africanist scholarship, often inflected with, if not infected by, Afropessimism, or the simplistic stereotypes conveyed in the western media that is infused with Afrophobia....these conflicts must be understood in comparative perspective, not in isolation. Violent conflict in Africa is indeed part of the human drama, but the tendency to impose universalist models of conflict driven from stylized western experiences or faddish theorising must be resisted... such paradigms lead to poor analysis and bad policy. Conflict is too serious a matter, and its costs too grave, for glib modeling or lazy journalistic speculation uninformed by the histories of, and unmindful of the concrete conditions in, the societies under scrutiny.' - From the introduction to The Roots of African Conflicts by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
'The search for peace is too important to be left to outsiders, however well-intentioned. It is encouraging to see that a growing number of African scholars areinterested in exploring and engaging this crucial subject'. - From the introduction to The Resolution of African Conflicts by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
North America: Ohio U Press; South Africa: Unisa Press
Contents
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.
