The Elgar Companion to War, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa -

The Elgar Companion to War, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa

Geoff Harris (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80220-778-1 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
This dynamic Companion brings together esteemed academics from across the globe to provide ten distinct approaches to peacebuilding in Africa. With a timely and forward-thinking approach to war and conflict, the book focuses on the utilisation of traditional African dialogue in contemporary peacebuilding, developing infrastructures, and education for peace with a transformative agenda.

The Elgar Companion to War, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa connects strongly with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and the aspirations of the African Union in its Agenda 2063. Chapters explore how to develop nonviolent action in civil society, bad governance and political competition as causes of violence, implementing basic income grants as a means to reduce violence, and alternatives to African militaries. Ultimately, this Companion recognises that the task of violence prevention is not the responsibility of governments alone, and that governments must work to positively utilise the capacities and commitments of civil society and local communities.



Offering a comprehensive overview of the nature and scope of conflict in Africa in the 21st century, this Companion will be a vital read for academics, researchers and students specialising in development studies, international politics, international relations and war studies. It will also be an essential read for peacebuilding professionals and policymakers working in national government organisations, African governments and international cross-policy organisations.

Edited by Geoff Harris, Professor, International Centre of Nonviolence, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Contents:

Preface x
PART I THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF CONFLICT
AND VIOLENCE IN AFRICA
1 Armed conflict in Africa in the 21st century 2
Geoff Harris

PART II UNDERLYING CAUSES OF CONFLICT AND
VIOLENCE
2 Bad governance, political competition and economic
inequality as causes of violence 14
Kabale Ignatius Mukunto
3 Horizontal inequality, ethnicity and religion as causes of
inter-group violence 28
Olubunmi Damilola Akande

PART III TEN APPROACHES TO PEACEBUILDING
4 Using traditional African approaches in contemporary
peacebuilding 49
Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala
5 Using dialogue in intractable land conflicts: evidence
from Burundi 90
Theodore Mbazumutima
6 Education for transformation 113
Crispin Hemson
7 Training civil society in nonviolent action: evidence from
South Sudan 134
Moses Monday John
8 Trauma healing as an essential supplement to truth commissions 155
Diana Benoit
9 Removing firearms? An alternative approach to civilian
firearms ownership in post-conflict settings 169
David Häfner and Joseph Farha
10 Can a basic income grant reduce violence? Evidence from
Namibia, Kenya and Uganda 193
Geoff Harris
11 Implementing security sector reform: a case study of Lesotho 204
Tlohang Letsie
12 Nonviolent security: an alternative to African militaries 220
Brian Martin
13 Developing infrastructures for peace 231
Oseremen Felix Irene

Afterword 252

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Cheltenham
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-80220-778-3 / 1802207783
ISBN-13 978-1-80220-778-1 / 9781802207781
Zustand Neuware
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