Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa

Authors

Devon Curtis
Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa

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Series

Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series,

Description

Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. Essays also address the institutional framework for peacebuilding in Africa and the ideological underpinnings of key institutions, including the African Union, NEPAD, the African Development Bank, the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Public and Civil Service, the UN Peacebuilding Commission, the World Bank, and the International Criminal Court. The volume includes on-the-ground case study chapters on Sudan, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the Niger Delta, Southern Africa, and Somalia, analyzing how peacebuilding operates in particular African contexts.

The authors adopt a variety of approaches, but they share a conviction that peacebuilding in Africa is not a script that is authored solely in Western capitals and in the corridors of the United Nations. Rather, the writers in this volume focus on the interaction between local and global ideas and practices in the reconstitution of authority and livelihoods after conflict. The book systematically showcases the tensions that occur within and between the many actors involved in the peacebuilding industry, as well as their intended beneficiaries. It looks at the multiple ways in which peacebuilding ideas and initiatives are reinforced, questioned, reappropriated, and redesigned by different African actors.

A joint project between the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa, and the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821444320

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

peacebuilding, Africa

Disciplines

Peace and Conflict Studies | Political Science

Comments

Funder: Knowledge Unlatched Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Available in the Open Research Library

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Curtis, Devon and Dzinesa, Gwinyayi A., "Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa" (2012). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 7.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/7