Researching Peacebuilding in Africa

Ismail Rashid is a Professor at Vassar College, USA Amy Niang is an Associate Professor in International Relations, Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Rabat, Morocco

Introduction Part One: Concepts, Theories and Methodologies 1. Overview of Recent Trends In African Scholarly Writing On Peacebuilding 2. When theory meets method: Feminist peace research in Africa and how to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange 3. A Mission to Civilize: The Liberal Idea of Peacebuilding in Africa 4. The Ethics of Research and Fieldwork-based in Conflict-affected Settings 5. The Application of Qualitative Research Methodology in African Contexts 6. Quantitative Research Methods in Field-Based Peacebuilding Part Two: Case Studies 7. Understanding Complex New Wars in Africa: The Example of The Sahel 8. Researching Women, Unpaid Care Work, and Peacebuilding in Darfur 9. Research in a Conflict and Peacebuilding Context: Narrations from Fieldwork in Nigerian Violent Theatres 10. Epistemological and Methodological Considerations in Peacebuilding Research – Experiences from the Borana of Ethiopia 11. A critique of the conceptual documents that frame UN and AU practice of Peacebuilding 12. Doing Research in the ‘Silicon Savannah’: Digital Media, Peacebuilding and Constructions of (In)Stability in Kenya 13. Postconflict Emotions at Home: Researching Zimbabwean Soldiers