Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? : : Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention / / edited by Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Anna-Maria Gentili.

• Superior document: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014; Engel, Ulf,; Gentili, Anna-Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume is an attempt to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence. It brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, with specialist knowledge of a large number of African countries. The intention here is to provide a survey of the various approaches to conflict in Africa, a systematic discussion of some of the root causes of violence, as well as case studies on the consequences of violence and the effects of conflict resolution.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Introduction -- Violence, Power and Rationality: A Political Analysis of Conflict in Contemporary Africa Patrick Chabal -- Part One -- Explaining Conflict and Understanding Conflict Prevention in Africa -- 1 Angola and the Theory of War Christopher Cramer -- 2 Ethnicity and Citizenship in Sub Saharan Africa Anna-Maria Gentili -- 3 Natural Resources, Scarcity and Conflict: a Perspective from Below Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk -- 4 Empirical Perspectives on African Conflict Resolution Klaas van Walraven -- 5 Area Studies, the Analysis of Conflict and the Evaluation of Preventive Practice in Africa Andreas Mehler -- Part Two -- Managing Conflict and Implementing Conflict Resolution in Africa -- 6 The Social Cost of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo Theodore Trefon -- 7 Assessing Africa's two-phase Peace Implementation Process: Power-sharing and Democratization Donald Rothchild -- 8 Administrative Decentralisation and Political Conflict in Mali Gerti Hesseling & Han van Dijk -- 9 Principles for Conflict Transformation: Practicioners in Africa Shamil Idriss -- Conclusion -- Violent Conflict and Conflict Prevention in Africa: An Alternative Research Agenda Ulf Engel -- Index.