The State of Peacebuilding in Africa : : Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Practitioners.

The State of Peacebuilding in Africa : : Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Practitioners.

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McNamee, Terence.
TeilnehmendeR:
Muyangwa, Monde.
Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.
©2021.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (433 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Part I Peacebuilding in Transition
  • 1 Introduction
  • The State of Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Key Issues and Themes in Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Organization of the Book
  • 2 Learning Lessons from Peace Operations in Africa
  • Introduction
  • Trends in Peace Operations in Africa
  • Record Levels
  • Wide-Ranging Mandates
  • Protecting Civilians
  • Using Force
  • Partnership Peacekeeping
  • Lessons Identified from Peace Operations in Africa
  • The Primacy of Politics
  • Ends and Means in Tune
  • Effective Force Generation
  • Ensure Accountability
  • Key Recommendations
  • 3 The Economics of Peacebuilding: International Organizations for Dealing with Victor and Vanquished
  • Introduction
  • The Treaty of Versailles-An Ambiguous Peace
  • An Economic Peace to Begin All Peace
  • Dividends of the Economic Reconstruction Program
  • Lessons from the Economic Reconstruction Program
  • Economic Development and Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Inaction in Guinea-Bissau
  • Côte d'Ivoire-A Success Story
  • Bleak Outlook for Libya and the Sahel
  • Conclusion
  • Key Recommendations
  • 4 Religion and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Introduction
  • The Past 30 Years: An Overview of Major Developments in Religious Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Religious Diplomacy
  • Islamic Social and Humanitarian Services
  • Inter-faith Peacebuilding Initiatives and Education for Peace
  • Case Studies, Key Issues, and Lessons Learned
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • The Central African Republic
  • Religious Pluralism as a Challenge to Peaceful Coexistence
  • Forms of Intolerance
  • Muslim Peacebuilding
  • Key Recommendations
  • 5 Field Reflections on Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Social Imperatives of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
  • Introduction.
  • Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
  • Case Studies: Uganda and Burundi
  • Uganda Veteran Assistance Programme
  • The Structural Challenges with the  Uganda Veteran Assistance Programme
  • Reintegration of Burundi's Child Soldiers
  • Key Recommendations
  • 6 United Nations Peacekeeping, Human Rights, and the Protection of Civilians
  • The Basis of the Mandate
  • The Normative and Institutional Framework
  • Implementation and Track Record
  • Lessons and Challenges
  • Uncertain Political Commitment and Support
  • Conceptual Ambiguity
  • Compatibility with the Original Idea of Peacekeeping
  • Finding the Right Balance Among the Tools
  • Enforcing the Primary Responsibility of the Host State
  • Key Recommendations
  • Part II Strategies and Tools
  • 7 Sustaining the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda: The Role of UN Peacekeeping in Africa
  • Introduction
  • Catalyzing Women, Peace, and Security through UN Peace Operations in Africa
  • Evolution of Women, Peace, and Security in Peacekeeping
  • Intersection with Continental, Regional, and Domestic Approaches
  • Furthering Women, Peace and Security Through UN Peacekeeping Missions: Case Studies
  • Liberia: Lessons from Integrating Gender and Transitions
  • South Sudan: Navigating Politics and Protection Concerns
  • Conclusions
  • Key Recommendations
  • 8 Local Peace Committees and Grassroots Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Introduction
  • Evolution of Local Peace Committees as Mechanisms for Grassroots Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Emergence of Local Peace Committees in Africa as Self-Help Community Initiatives
  • Toward the Formalization of Local Peace Committees in Africa
  • The Ascendancy of NGO-Sponsored Local Peace Committees
  • Three Decades of Local Peace Committees: Key Issues and Lessons Learned
  • To Formalize or Not to Formalize?.
  • Relationship with Formal Institutions and Processes of the State
  • Scope of Local Peace Committee Intervention
  • Local Peace Committees as Sites for Social Contestation and Normative Contradictions
  • Funding and External Support
  • Conclusion
  • Key Recommendations
  • 9 Three Decades of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
  • Introduction
  • Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Africa: Contexts and Contents
  • Thirty Years of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Africa: Issues, Trends and Lessons Learned
  • Africa, a Major Host of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Programs
  • Africa as a "Living Laboratory"23 for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
  • From Combatant-Focused to Community-Based Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
  • Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Africa: The Achilles Heel, and the Iron Rules
  • The Achilles Heel: The Challenge of Incomplete Reintegration
  • Conclusion
  • Key Recommendations: Three Iron Rules
  • 10 The Changing Nature of Elections in Africa: Impact on Peacebuilding
  • Introduction
  • Elections and Peacebuilding
  • Three Decades of Elections in Africa: What Do We Know About Their Impact on Peacebuilding?
  • Winner-Takes-All Politics
  • Sequencing and Timing
  • Challenges and Emerging Threats to Election Peace in Africa
  • Technology and Elections
  • Litigating Election Results
  • Abusing Presidential Term Limits
  • Increasing Cost of Financing Elections and Elective Politics
  • Key Recommendations
  • 11 Contributions of Early Warning to the African Peace and Security Architecture: The Experience of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Post-Cold War Security Context of Africa.
  • The African Peace and Security Architecture: Early Warning and Conflict Prevention
  • WANEP's Early Warning Contributions to Peace and Security in West Africa
  • Key Recommendations
  • Part III Regional and International Dimensions of Peacebuilding
  • 12 The African Union in Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Introduction
  • Understanding Peacebuilding
  • African Initiatives Toward Peacebuilding: From the OAU to the AU
  • Peacebuilding Before the African Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) Policy
  • The Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Policy
  • Key Recommendations
  • 13 Trends in SADC Mediation and Long-Term Conflict Transformation
  • Introduction
  • Systemic Conflict Transformation Framework and Mediation
  • SADC's Policy and Institutional Framework for Mediation
  • Trends in SADC Mediation in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Madagascar
  • Zimbabwe
  • Madagascar
  • Lesotho
  • The Potential Contribution of the Systemic Conflict Transformation Framework to SADC Mediation
  • Key Recommendations
  • 14 The International Criminal Court's Impact on Peacebuilding in Africa
  • Introduction
  • Domestic Amnesties
  • Domestic Amnesties in Uganda
  • Domestic Amnesties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Peace Negotiations
  • Peace Negotiations in Uganda
  • Peace Negotiations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Conclusion
  • Key Recommendations
  • 15 Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding: Incompatible or Complementary?
  • Introduction
  • Origins of Humanitarian Action
  • Mandate Shift in Africa
  • The Humanitarian Bind
  • South Sudan
  • The Central African Republic
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Mali
  • Key Recommendations
  • 16 Peace Management and Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner's Perspective
  • Introduction
  • Cyprus and Myanmar-Lessons for Africa?
  • Darfur/Sudan
  • Key Challenges.
  • Striking a Balance Between Peace and Justice, Including Strengthening Relations Between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court
  • Factoring Implementation Agreements into Mediation Efforts
  • Ensuring Strong Women's Participation in Conflict Resolution
  • Managing Spoilers Through Innovative Approaches: Inducements, Socializations, Coercion, and Leverage
  • The Inducement or Carrots Strategy
  • The Socialization Strategy
  • Coercion or Stick Strategy
  • Exercising Leverage
  • Promoting Cohesion among Mediators and Good Offices through Support for a Unified Mediator
  • Relations with NGOs and Civil Society Groups
  • Conclusion
  • Key Recommendations
  • Part IV Country-Case Studies
  • 17 Peacebuilding as State Building? Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Introduction
  • The Shift in International Peacebuilding Toward State-Building
  • Evolution of International Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Background to the Conflicts
  • Peace Accords: Ending the Second Congo War (1998-2003)
  • Politics Below the Surface
  • Power Sharing and National Elections: The DRC's Transitional Government (2003-2006)
  • Politics Below the Surface
  • Evolution of UN Peacebuilding (2006-2017): "Restoring State Authority"
  • Politics Below the Surface
  • Conclusion
  • Key Recommendations
  • 18 Violence, Peacebuilding, and Elite Bargains in Mozambique Since Independence
  • Introduction
  • Historical Background
  • The Post-independence Civil War
  • Failed Attempts to End the War
  • The Rome General Peace Accord
  • Learning from the Past for Future Peacebuilding
  • RENAMO's Electoral Fortunes
  • The 2019 Peace Accords
  • Importance of Decentralization for Peacebuilding
  • Conclusion
  • Key Recommendations
  • 19 The Dog That Did Not Bark: Why Has Sierra Leone Not Returned to War After Peacekeepers Left?
  • Introduction1.
  • Sierra Leone's Peacebuilding Challenges.

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