Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa / / edited by Devon Curtis and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa ; foreword by Adekeye Adebajo.

• Superior document: Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
• TeilnehmendeR: Curtis, Devon.; Dzinesa, Gwinyayi Albert.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge Centre of African Studies series; Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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, demobilization, and reintegration. Essays also address the institutional framework for peacebuilding in Africa and the ideological underpinnings of key institutions, including the African Union, NEPAD, the African Development Bank, the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Public and Civil

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.