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Subject(s)

• Peace-building—Africa [Browse]

Editor

• Ricard, Maxime, 1980- [Browse]
• Charbonneau, Bruno [Browse]

Series

Routledge International Handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"Africa lies at the centre of the international community's peacebuilding interventions, and the continent's rich multitude of actors, ideas, relationships, practices, experiences, locations, and contexts in turn shape the possibilities and practices of contemporary peacebuilding. This timely new handbook surveys and analyses peacebuilding as it operates in this specifically African context. The book begins by outlining the evolution and the various ideologies, conceptualizations, institutions, and practices of African peacebuilding. It identifies critical differences in how African peacebuilders have conceptualized and operationalized peacebuilding. The book then considers how different actors sustain, construct and use African infrastructure to identify and analyse converging, differing or competing mandates, approaches, and interests. Finally, it analyses specific thematic issues such as gender, justice, development, democracy, and the politics of knowledge, before ending with in-depth analyses of case studies drawn from across the continent. Bringing together an international line up of expert contributors, this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of African politics, post-conflict reconstruction, security and peace and conflict studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Whose Peacebuilding? Power, Politics, Practices
• Part I Institutions
• 1 From Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding: Towards a UN Peace Continuum
• 2 The United Nations and the African Union: Partners or Rivals in Peace Operations?
• 3 Peacebuilding via Security Sector Reform and Governance? The Case of West Africa
• 4 Preventing Conflict-Induced Forced Displacement in Africa: UNHCR, the AU and the Rhetoric and Realities of 'Root Causes'
• Part II Themes and Debates
• 5 African Mediation in High-Intensity Conflict: How African?
• 6 Justice and Reconciliation in Africa: The Emergence of the African Union Transitional Justice Policy
• 7 The Politics of Knowledge and an African Transitional Justice: Analysing Africa as a Constitutive Outside
• 8 Local Peacebuilding: The Reflexive Encounter Between a Subaltern View and a Practitioner in Côte d'Ivoire
• 9 Women, Gender and Peacebuilding in Africa
• 10 Development and Peacebuilding
• 11 Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa
• 12 The Climate Crisis and Its Challenges for African Peacebuilding
• Part III Case Studies
• 13 Peace by Delegation? The G5 Sahel's Quest to Build Sustainable Peace
• 14 Counterinsurgency and Peacebuilding in Somalia and Mali
• 15 Peacebuilding in The Gambia: Sustaining the Gains and Addressing Potential Threats to the Process
• 16 The Politics of Transitional Justice and Peacemaking in a Non-Transition Context: The Case of South Sudan
• 17 Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau: Challenges and the Way Forward to Sustaining Peace and Security
• 18 Stability for Whom and for What? The Ivorian Peacebuilding Experience Under Alassane Ouattara
• Conclusion: African Peacebuilding for Whom and for What? Bringing the People Back In
• Afterword
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-429-06003-3
• 0-429-59590-5

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