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9781856497626

Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance

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  • ISBN13:

    9781856497626

  • ISBN10:

    1856497623

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-09-04
  • Publisher: Zed Books
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Summary

More and more African countries are falling prey to civil war and the disintegration of government authority and social order. Here, for the first time, teams of African scholars actually based in the countries principally affected examine what is happening. Their first aim has been to understand the complex and diverse roots of these conflicts. To this end, they analyse the conflicts in Angola, Burundi and Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Somalia and Somaliland. They also reflect on the general obstacles to comprehending conflict in Africa. Possible ways of anticipating, containing and indeed preventing new conflicts are discussed, as are the experiences of successful transitions to peace in Northern Mali and post-civil war Nigeria. Proposals for mastering conflict in future range over a wide diversity of ideas like a moratorium on the importation of arms, trans-frontier development projects, political reform creating real space for participation by different social groups, and governmental decentralisation. This timely volume is a significant contribution by African intellectuals to resolving the most intractable problems confronting Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author Biography

Adebayo Adedeji is a renowned economist and Director of the African Center for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS), Nigeria.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
vii(1)
Contributors viii(1)
Abbreviations ix(4)
Foreword xiii(2)
Preface and Acknowledgements xv(7)
Map of Sub-Sahara Africa in Conflict, 1999
xxii
PART I: Issues at Stake 1(52)
1. Comprehending African Conflicts
3(19)
ADEBAYO ADEDEJI
2. Mastering African Conflicts
22(9)
AMADOU TOUMANI TOURE
3. Obstacles to Comprehension and Barriers to the Mastery of Conflicts
31(10)
REGINALD HERBOLD GREEN
4. Achieving Good Governance in Post-Conflict Situations: The Dialectic between Conflict and Good Governance
41(12)
SEGUN ODUNUGA
PART II: Countries in Conflict: A Critical Stocktaking by Country Research Teams 53(136)
5. Angola
55(25)
AUGUSTO EDUARDO KAMBWA
DANIEL MINGAS CASIMIRO
NGONGO JOAO PEDRO
LUCAS BHENGUI NGONDA
6. Burundi
80(24)
JOSEPH GAHAMA
S. MAKOROKA
C. NDITIJE
P. NTAHOMBAYE
O. SINDAYIZERUKA
7. Liberia
104(37)
AL-HASSAN CONTEH
JOSEPH S. GUANNU
HALL BADIO
KLANEH W. BRUCE
8. Rwanda
141(33)
EMMANUEL GASSANA
BUTERA JEAN-BOSCO
BYANAFASHE DEO
ALICE KAREIKEZI
9. Sierra Leone
174(15)
JOHN BOBOR LAGGAH
JOE A. D. ALLIE
ROLAND S. V. WRIGHT
PART III: Transitions from Conflict to Peace and Good Governance: Lessons of Experience 189(128)
10. Angola: Seeking to Remedy the Limitations and Bias in Media and Scholarly Coverage
191(16)
REGINALD HERBOLD GREEN
11. The Experience of Northern Mali
207(14)
A: History of the Armed Conflict
215(1)
BINTOU SANAN KOUCA
SICAVE AG. ECAWELL
B: Democracy and the Peace Process
215(6)
AGHATAM ALHASSANE
12. Nigeria: A Victim of its Own Success
221(15)
SEGUN ODUNUGA
13. Understanding Conflict in Somalia and Somaliland
236(21)
ISMAIL AHMED
14. Towards a Macro-Economic Framework for Somaliland's Post-War Rehabilitation and Reconstruction
257(25)
REGINALD HERBOLD GREEN
15. The Role of Non-African NGOs in African Conflicts: The Case of Rwanda
282(15)
IAN LINDEN
16. Consolidating Peace through Governance and Regional Cooperation: The Liberian Experience
297(20)
ANTHONY BARCLAY
PART IV: Strategizing the Way Forward 317(22)
17. Which Way Forward? A Panel Discussion
319(20)
A: Panel Discussions
330(1)
ADEBAYO ADEDEJI (ACDESS)(CHAIRMAN)
EMMANUEL GASANA (RWANDA)
AL-HASSAN CONTEH (LIBERIA)
JOSEPH GAHAMA (BURUNDI)
TREVOR GORDON-SOMERS (UNDP)
B: Conclusions and Recommendations on Managing African Conflicts in their Political, Economic and Social Dimensions
330(3)
WORKING GROUP I
C: An Ongoing Research Programme Directed at Comprehending and Mastering Conflict
333(6)
WORKING GROUP II
Appendixes 339(28)
1. ACDESS Guidelines for the Preparation of the National Baseline Papers 341(21)
2. The Final Communique of the Regional Consultative Workshop on Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts 362(5)
Index 367
TABLES
1.1 Categorization of SSA countries by the prevailing political condition as of the last quarter of 1998
5
1.2 Growth in real per capita GDP 1960-94 in conflict countries
13
1.3 Indicators of human poverty
16
6.1 Fundamental differences in perception and the interpretation of facts
96
7.1 Income distribution by urban and rural class locations and class shares in national income, 1980
126
7.2 Land holdings of concessions by date, tenure, acreage and nationality
128
FIGURES
1.1 Violent changes of government in Africa since 1960
6
1.2 Major conflicts in the world during the 1990s
11
16.1 Transition from crisis to peace and recovery through effective governance
310

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