Security, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation: When the Wars End

by Ndulo; Muna B.

• ISBN13: 9781844721160
• ISBN10: 1844721167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-02
• Publisher: Ucl Pr Ltd

Summary

Wars weaken the authority of the state, breed insecurity, and erode institutions of civil society. Post-conflict societies are characterized by lack of respect for the rule of law, gross human rights violations, impunity, and economic devastation and decay. The end of the conflict does not automatically bring peace, security and an end to violence. Countries emerging from conflict will almost always need to depend upon the international community to varying degrees for resources (financial, technical, and human), in order to conduct effective reconciliation, institution building and reconstruction. The book brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts in comparative constitutionalism, conflict resolution, governance, development and security. An attempt is made to derive common lessons learnt; identify pitfalls to be avoided and to articulate issues and guidelines to be considered in the design of post conflict processes. The objective of the book is to make a contribution to conflict resolution by identifying variables that underline success in approaches adopted to achieve reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
List of acronyms	p. xxviii
Introduction	p. 1
The social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict	p. 11
Arms trafficking and the local political economy of conflict	p. 13
HIV/AIDS, conflicts, and security in Africa	p. 26
Transparency and accountability in the use of petroleum revenues: a fundamental ingredient for security, reconstruction, and reconciliation in Africa's booming petro-states	p. 38
Protecting and reintegrating displaced women and children postconflict	p. 58
Impact of conflict on women and children	p. 83
The impact of civil war on women and children in Africa	p. 85
Security and reconstruction in Africa: role of Security Council Resolution 1325, Women, Peace and Security	p. 97
Progress and hurdles on the road to prevent the use of children as soldiers and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration	p. 108
Enhancing the role of women in electoral processes in postconflict countries: constitutional and legislative measures	p. 117
Reconstruction and past human rights violations: healing the nations	p. 131
Truth commissions versus prosecutions: an African perspective	p. 133
Justice for whom? Assessing hybrid approaches to accountability in Sierra Leone	p. 145
Victims' responses to truth commissions: evidence from South Africa	p. 165
Disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, post-war reconstruction, and the building of a capable state and the role of the international community in the peace process	p. 197
Reconstruct governance to rouse Liberia, long forlorn	p. 199
The postconflict security gap and the United Nations peace operations system	p. 247
Africa's security dilemma: national stability versus world security	p. 276
US security assistance and Africa: challenges of weapon sales and military aid	p. 284
Concluding thoughts: after the fighting stops	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 310
Index	p. 339
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