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Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa: In Search of Alternative Strategies book cover

1st Edition

Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa In Search of Alternative Strategies

Edited By Kenneth Omeje Copyright 2019
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge
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Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa explores the challenges and opportunities faced by countries and societies transitioning from armed conflicts to peace in contemporary Africa. It evaluates the effectiveness, outcomes and failures of existing peacebuilding initiatives implemented by stakeholders, and proposes new strategies and approaches to facilitate the transition. The book... Read more

PART I Conceptual Debate

  1. Introduction: Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa

    2. Kenneth Omeje

  2. The Peacebuilding and Development Debate: Is Contemporary Peacebuilding Development in Disguise?

    3. Mala Mustapha & Usman A. Tar

    PART II Neglected Dimensions of Peacebuilding: Micro-Level Conflicts

  3. Peacebuilding in Micro-level Inter-Community Conflicts in West Africa: Examples from Ghana and Nigeria

    4. Afua Boatemaa Yakohene

  4. Marginalization and Violent Conflict in the Karamoja Region of Uganda

    5. Tony Karbo

  5. Peacebuilding in Micro-Level Inter-Community Conflicts: Examples from Selected Countries in Southern Africa

    6. Pamela Machakanja and Chupicai Manuel

    PART III Conventional Wisdom and Practices in Peacebuilding: Macro-Level Conflicts

  6. Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone One and Half Decades after the Civil War: At What Stage Does a Country Cease to be Post-Conflict?

    7. Ibrahim Bangura

  7. The Task of Rebuilding Liberia

    8. T. Debey Sayndee

  8. Conflict Intervention, Insecurity and the Challenges of Peacebuilding in South Sudan

    9. Nicodemus Minde

  9. Boko Haram Insurgency, Terrorism and the Challenges of Peacebuilding in the Lake Chad Basin

    10. Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala

  10. Obstacles to Peace and Security in North Africa

    11. Ibrahim Bangura and Sampson Lau

    PART IV In Search of Alternative Strategies

  11. Peacebuilding through Peace Education in the Horn of Africa: A Transformative Cosmopolitan Perspective

    12. Yonas Adaye Adeto

  12. Transiting from Armed Conflict to Peace in Contemporary Africa: Changing Tides, Research Findings and Future Directions

Kenneth Omeje

Biography

Kenneth Omeje is Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa; Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. He has previously held the positions of Professor of International Relations at the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya and Senior Research Fellow at the John and Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford, UK.

Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa aims to scrutinise the conventional peace building method used on the continent; in doing so it identifies areas which are often ignored and proposes alternative strategies accordingly. This remarkable volume is the result of 13 contributors including the editor, who opens the volume by intelligently introducing the intellectual debates on peacebuilding in Africa and closes it by skilfully laying out the proposed alternative strategies.

Niguse Mandefero Alene, Department of Political Sciences and International Studies, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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