Managing Conflicts In Africas Democratic Transitions

Author : Akanmu Gafari Adebayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739172638
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Conflicts in Africa's Democratic Transitions written by Akanmu Gafari Adebayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nascent and complex terrain of democratization and peaceful political transitions in Africa. It analyzes major election-related conflicts across the continent, explains their root causes and major consequences, and offers measures that may be undertaken to prevent, manage, and resolve election-induced conflicts. It charts a path for the future political and democratic stability in Africa.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Conflicts in Africa's Democratic Transitions written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred G. Nhema
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821418084
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resolution of African Conflicts written by Alfred G. Nhema and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies. They offer sober and serious analyses, eschewing the sensationalism of the western media and the sophistry of some of the scholars in the global North for whom African conflicts are at worst a distraction and at best a confirmation of their pet racist and petty universalist theories." --From the introduction by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza This book offers analyses of a range of African conflicts and demonstrates that peace is too important to be left to outsiders.

Author : Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 9781878379795
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elections and Conflict Management in Africa written by Timothy D. Sisk and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections have emerged as one of the most important, and most contentious, features of political life on the African continent. In the first half of this decade, there were more than 20 national elections, serving largely as capstones of peace processes or transitions to democracies. The outcomes of these and more recent elections have been remarkably varied, and the relationship between elections and conflict management is widely debated throughout Africa and among international observers. Elections can either help reduce tensions by reconstituting legitimate government, or they can exacerbate them by further polarizing highly conflictual societies. This timely volume examines the relationship between elections, especially electoral systems, and conflict management in Africa, while also serving as an important reference for other regions. The book brings together for the first time the latest thinking on the many different roles elections can play in democratization and conflict management.

Author : David R. Smock
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Approaches to Managing Conflict in Africa written by David R. Smock and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. Wafula Okumu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429557477
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Transitions in East Africa written by F. Wafula Okumu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2004. Genocide in Rwanda, massive floods of refugees and displaced people in the Horn of Africa, violent civil wars in the West African countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia - these are testimonies to the tremendous cost to grassroots communities when the authority and legitimacy of national political systems and leaders are called into question. The consolidation of democracy represents one tangible strategy to restore authority and legitimacy of political rule, providing the peace and security necessary for political enfranchisement and economic opportunity. This volume explores the factors that are crucial to the emergence of democratic political systems on the African continent, specifically focusing on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It highlights the political challenges facing these countries during this crucial transition period, and provides insights that are applicable to other countries engaged in this process in Africa and beyond.

Author : Juha Auvinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789514583261
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Warning and Conflict Management in South African Democratic Transition written by Juha Auvinen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pamela Aall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 1928096220
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minding the Gap written by Pamela Aall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing narrative on Africa is that it is awash with violent conflict. Indeed, it does suffer from a multitude of conflicts — from border skirmishes to civil wars to terrorist attacks. Conflicts in Africa are diverse and complex, but there have been a number of cases of successful conflict management and resolution. What accounts for the successes and failures, and what can we learn from Africa’s experience? Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change takes on these questions, bringing together more than 20 experts to examine the source of conflicts in Africa and assess African management capacity in the face of these conflicts.

Author : Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa. Congress
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Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Peace in Africa written by Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Contains the proceedings of the papers presented at the seventh OSSREA Congress held in December 2002, in Khartoum, Sudan.

Author : Francis M. Deng
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815719736
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty as Responsibility written by Francis M. Deng and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors assert that sovereignty can no longer be seen as a protection against interference, but as a charge of responsibility where the state is accountable to both domestic and external constituencies. In internal conflicts in Africa, sovereign states have often failed to take responsibility for their own citizens' welfare and for the humanitarian consequences of conflict, leaving the victims with no assistance. This book shows how that responsibility can be exercised by states over their own population, and by other states in assistance to their fellow sovereigns. Sovereignty as Responsibility presents a framework that should guide both national governments and the international community in discharging their respective responsibilities. Broad principles are developed by examining identity as a potential source of conflict, governance as a matter of managing conflict, and economics as a policy field for deterring conflict. Considering conflict management, political stability, economic development, and social welfare as functions of governance, the authors develop strategies, guidelines, and roles for its responsible exercise. Some African governments, such as South Africa in the 1990s and Ghana since 1980, have demonstrated impressive gains against these standards, while others, such as Rwanda, Somalia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sudan, have failed. Opportunities for making sovereignty more responsible and improving the management of conflicts are examined at the regional and international levels. The lessons from the mixed successes of regional conflict management actions, such as the West African intervention in Liberia, the East African mediation in Sudan, and international efforts to urge talks to end the conflict in Angola, indicate friends and neighbors outside the state in conflict have important roles to play in increasing sovereign responsibility. Approaching conflict management from the perspective of the responsibilities of sovereignt