Full Description
Travelling Models offers a theoretical concept for comparative research on conflict management in Africa in processes of globalization: how is change in one place related to developments in other places? Why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up in other places, while others are not? The authors examine how the travel of models enact changes, particularly in African conflict situations, most often in unexpected ways. They look at what happens when a model has been put into practice at a conflict site, and they pay attention to the forms of social (re-)ordering resulting from this process. The authors look, among others, at conflict managing models of power- and revenue sharing, mediation, freedom of expression, disaster management, community involvement and workshopping.
Contributors are: Andrea Behrends, Lydie Cabane, Veronika Fuest, Dejene Gemechu, Mutasim Bashir Ali Hadi, Remadji Hoinathy, Mario Krämer, Sung-Joon Park, Tinashe Pfigu, Richard Rottenburg, Sylvanus Spencer and Kees van der Waal.
The Introduction of this volume is being offered in Open Access
Contents
Contents
Generalities
Preface
Andrea Behrends
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 Travelling Models. Introducing an analytical concept to globalisation studies
Andrea Behrends, Sung-Joon Park and Richard Rottenburg
Part I Expert interventions and local redefinitions
Chapter 2 Workshopping owners. Policies, procedures and pitfalls of peace-building in the non-state sector of Liberia
Veronika Fuest
Chapter 3 Does rationality travel? Translations of a World Bank model for fair oil revenue distribution in Chad
Remadji Hoinathy and Andrea Behrends
Chapter 4 Conflicts as disasters. Translations of conflict in post-apartheid South Africa?
Lydie Cabane
Part II Institutions of political ordering
Chapter 5 Power-sharing in southeast Darfur. Local translations of an international model
Mutasim Bashir Ali Hadi
Chapter 6 Travelling ideologies and the resurgence of traditional institutions in post-1991 Ethiopia
Dejene Gemechu
Chapter 7 Democratisation between violent conflict and the resurgence of chieftaincy. Local transformations of a travelling model in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Mario Krämer
Part III Mobilisation and communities in social ordering
Chapter 8 Singing for change. Music as a means of political expression for young people in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Sylvanus Spencer
Chapter 9 Translating community policing in different social orders in Stellenbosch, South Africa
Tinashe Pfigu and Kees van der Waal
Index
