Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
About the Book Series
The book series reflects the diversities and emerging trends in Africa’s conflict, peace and security terrain. It promotes innovative and deep insights into the complexities, shifts as well as continuities in the conflict, peace and security landscapes across the continent after the Cold war, and particularly since the turn of the century. The series responds to the demand for new analyses that systematically unpack and provide fresh perspectives to existing and emerging trends, and actors: individual, non-state, state, cross-border, regional and transnational, including the connections between the local, the regional and global levels and institutions. Issues to be covered span diverse approaches to conflict, violence, security, peacebuilding, politics, resource governance, regional and global interventions, and transitional justice among others. The series include full-length single-authored monographs, multi-authored books, edited collections and high quality thesis conversions based on cutting-edge innovative and original research on Africa.
To submit a proposal for Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa please contact Routledge African Studies editor Helena Hurd, [email protected]
Governance and Security in Nigeria's Fourth Republic
1st Edition
Edited
By V. Adefemi Isumonah, Nathaniel Umukoro
October 30, 2025
This book explores the link between the nature of governance and various dimensions of security in Nigeria since the beginning of the fourth republic in 1999. The book begins by laying out the expectations of governance following the restoration of democratic rule. Failure to meet these ...
Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone: Donors, Government, and Human Security
1st Edition
By Vandy Kanyako
August 30, 2025
This book investigates the important role of local actors in Sierra Leone in helping to foster peace and provide for the needs of vulnerable populations following the end of the civil war. Despite severe economic, political, and in some cases security challenges, local civil society organizations ...
Human Security and Epidemics in Africa: Learning from COVID-19, Ebola and HIV
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Velthuizen, Caroline Varin
August 29, 2025
This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies adopted to tackle COVID-19, Ebola, and HIV-AIDS. The authors reflect on lessons learned from solving complex problems and difficult decisions made by leaders on pandemic ...
Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Conflict: International Humanitarian Law and Regional Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Marko Svicevic, Martha M. Bradley
August 29, 2025
This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ongoing conflict in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, which has killed thousands and displaced a million people since 2017. The book investigates how the conflict developed, the regional and international responses and its wider ...
African Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Urban Mobilities and Peacebuilding Trajectories
1st Edition
Edited
By Ibrahim Bangura, Cyril Obi, Irene D Mngutyo
July 22, 2025
This book investigates the lived experiences of Africa’s youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing its impact on their mobilities, freedoms, and livelihoods. Bringing together diverse perspectives from across the continent, the book interrogates how African youth expressed their agency in urban ...
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria
1st Edition
Edited
By David Ehrhardt, David Oladimeji Alao, M. Sani Umar
April 14, 2025
Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria’s escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges. Set against a backdrop of widespread security threats – including insurgency, land disputes, communal violence, ...
Banditry and Security Crisis in Nigeria
1st Edition
Edited
By Al Chukwuma Okoli, Saliou Ngom
December 18, 2024
This book examines the growing phenomenon of armed banditry in Nigeria and its implication for national security. Nigeria’s banditry crisis and deepening security challenges are fuelled by the existence of vast un(der)governed hinterland and trans-border spaces where various non-state armed groups ...
Conflict Management and Resolution in South Sudan
1st Edition
Edited
By Nelson Alusala, Emmaculate Asige Liaga, Martin Revai Rupiya
December 18, 2024
This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectives of the country, its key political, mediation and negotiation processes, peace and security, socio-economic development, and gender, as well as ...
Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Ibrahim Bangura
November 28, 2024
This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa. Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent, the book investigates the different theories, contextual realities and approaches that have informed ...
Living through Crisis by Lake Chad: Violence, Labor and Resources
1st Edition
By Alessio Iocchi
August 26, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area. In 2014 Boko Haram expanded into the Lake Chad region, prompting a ...
Rural Violence in Contemporary Nigeria: The State, Criminality and National Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Usman A. Tar, Bashir Bala
August 26, 2024
The book explores the pressing problem of rural violence in contemporary Nigeria by assessing the changing patterns of conflict and response across the country. Rural violence in Nigeria is becoming an increasingly pressing concern, with cattle rustling, banditry, kidnapping and farmer-herder ...
Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo
May 27, 2024
This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies. Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from ...