1st Edition

African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration

Edited By Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi Copyright 2019
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

This book looks at the ways African borders impact war and conflict, as well as the ways continental integration could contribute towards cooperation, peace and well-being in Africa. African borders or borderlands can be a source of problems and opportunity. There is often a historical, geospatial and geopolitical architecture rooted in trajectories of war, conflict and instability, which could... Read more

1. Borders, War and Conflict in Africa: Revisiting the Narrative of a War-Torn Continent

Inocent Moyo and Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

2. African Borders and the Coloniality of Human Movement

Everisto Benyera

3. Trans-border Trajectories of Violence in the Afar Horn

Muauz Gidey Alemu

4. The Porosity of Borders and Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria

James Okolie-Osemene and Benjamin Adeniran Aluko

5. Border Fragility and Proximate Causes of the DRC Civil War

Nelson Alusala

6. Transnational and Ethnic Interest in Cross-Border Conflict in Africa: An Analysis of the Mano River and the Great Lakes Region

Jackson A. Aluede

7. Taking Sustainable Development to the Limits: State Policy--Grassroots Actor Activities Interface in Borderlands

Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

8. Cross Border Migration and Human Smuggling Between Zimbabwe and South Africa: Reflections on Migration and Regional Peace

Inocent Moyo

9. An Examination of the Sadc Regional Integration Posture in the Context of the Contested 2008 Election Run-Off in Zimbabwe

Patrick Dzimiri

10. Do Wars and Conflicts Hinder the Success of Regional Integration? Evidence from Africa

Ntogwa N. Bundala

11: Innovations For ‘Silencing the Guns’ and Redefining African Borders as Promoters of Peace, Well-Being, Regional and Continental Integration

Christopher Changwe Nshimbi and Inocent Moyo

Biography

Inocent Moyo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zululand, South Africa.

Christopher Changwe Nshimbi is Director and Department of Science and Technology-National Research Foundation (DST-NRF) Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.