Confronting Ethnic Conflict The Role of Third Parties in Managing Africa's Civil Wars

by De Maio, Jennifer L.

• ISBN13: 9780739128459
• ISBN10: 0739128450
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Given the pervasive threat of ethnic conflict and the growing incidence of internal wars spilling across borders, understanding the impact of third-party intervention on conflict prevention, durable peaceful governance, and amicable social relations becomes critical exercises for any scholar of conflict management. The purpose of this project is to determine whether intervention strategies undertaken by international, regional, and subregional actors can be devised or improved so as to maximize the likelihood of successful conflict management in the case of internal conflicts, particularly ethnic conflicts.

Author Biography

Jennifer L. De Maio is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University-Northridge.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Considerations
Addressing the Causes of Ethnic Conflict	p. 23
Conflict Management in the Post-Cold War World	p. 45
Coordination and Cooperation: Toward a Strategy of Successful Intervention	p. 69
Empirical Analysis
Intervention and Genocide: Burundi, 1995-2003	p. 89
Intervention in a Collapsing State: Somalia, 1988-1992	p. 115
Intervention in Protracted Conflict: Sudan, 1983-2005	p. 141
Intervention in a Phase of Political Transition: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1994	p. 171
Building Capacity for Coordinated and Cooperative Third Party Intervention	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 221
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