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Security, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation When the Wars End

Edited By Muna Ndulo Copyright 2007
    384 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by UCL Press

    378 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by UCL Press

    384 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by UCL Press
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    This key text brings together a team of leading contributors to address the complex issues of security reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies.

    Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation is organized into four main sections:

    • the social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict

    • the impact of conflict on women and children

    • reconstruction and past human rights violations

    • disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, post-war reconstruction and the building of a capable state and the role of the international community in the peace process.

    The chapters offer a detailed and succinct exposition of the challenges facing post conflict societies by articulating the vision of a new society. With a foreword by Francis Deng, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons, the authors discuss the issues in the context of possible solutions and lessons learnt in the field.

    This new book is a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers and students in the fields of conflict resolution, security studies, law and development.

    List of illustrations
    List of contributors
    Foreword
    Acknowledgments
    List of abbreviations

    Introduction
    Muna Ndulo

    PART I: The social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict
    1 - Arms trafficking and the local political economy of conflict
    William Reno

    2 - HIV/AIDS, conflicts, and security in Africa
    Obijiofor Aginam

    3 - Transparency and accountability in the use of petroleum revenues: a fundamental ingredient for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation in Africa’s booming petro-states
    Ian Gary

    4 - Protecting and reintegrating displaced women and children postconflict
    Erin Mooney

    PART II: Impact of conflict on women and children
    5 - The impact of civil war on women and children in Africa
    Meredith Turshen

    6 - Security and reconstruction in Africa: role of Security Council Resolution 1325, Women, Peace and Security
    Sherrill Whittington

    7 - Progress and hurdles on the road to prevent the use of children as soldiers and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration
    Ilene Cohn

    8 - Enhancing the role of women in processes in postconflict countries: constitutional and legislative measures
    Muna Ndulo

    PART III: Reconstruction and past human rights violations: healing the nations
    9 - Truth commissions versus prosecutions: an African perspective
    Mark Kende

    10 - Justice for whom? Assessing hybrid approaches to accountability in Sierra Leone
    Chandra Lekha Sriram

    11 - Victims’ responses to truth commissions: evidence from South Africa
    David Backer

    PART IV: Disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, post-war reconstruction, and the building of a capable state and the role of the international community in the peace process
    12 - Reconstruct governance to rouse Liberia, long forlorn
    Byron Tarr

    13 - The postconflict security gap and the United Nations peace operations system
    Peter H. Gantz

    14 - Africa’s security dilemma: national stability versus world security
    Marcel Kitissou

    15 - US security assistance and Africa: challenges of weapon sales and military aid
    Matthew Schroeder

    16 - Concluding Thoughts: after the fighting stops
    Milton Esman

    Bibliography

    Biography

    Muna Ndulo

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