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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784032303321

Titolo

Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? : Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention / / edited by Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Anna-Maria Gentili

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-86831-7

9786610868315

1-4294-5343-5

90-474-0778-4

1-4337-0472-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; ; 1

Disciplina

303.6/4/096

Soggetti

Conflict management - Africa

Political violence - Africa - Prevention

Political violence - Africa

Africa Politics and government 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Introduction -- Violence, Power and Rationality: A Political Analysis of Conflict in Contemporary Africa Patrick Chabal -- Part One -- Explaining Conflict and Understanding Conflict Prevention in Africa -- 1 Angola and the Theory of War Christopher Cramer -- 2 Ethnicity and Citizenship in Sub Saharan Africa Anna-Maria Gentili -- 3 Natural Resources, Scarcity and Conflict: a Perspective from Below Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk -- 4 Empirical Perspectives on African Conflict Resolution Klaas van Walraven -- 5 Area Studies, the Analysis of Conflict and the Evaluation of Preventive Practice in Africa Andreas Mehler -- Part Two -- Managing Conflict and Implementing Conflict Resolution in Africa -- 6 The Social Cost of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo Theodore Trefon -- 7 Assessing Africa's two-phase Peace Implementation Process: Power-sharing and Democratization Donald Rothchild -- 8 Administrative Decentralisation and Political Conflict in Mali Gerti Hesseling & Han van Dijk -- 9 Principles for



Conflict Transformation: Practicioners in Africa Shamil Idriss -- Conclusion -- Violent Conflict and Conflict Prevention in Africa: An Alternative Research Agenda Ulf Engel -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is an attempt to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence. It brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, with specialist knowledge of a large number of African countries. The intention here is to provide a survey of the various approaches to conflict in Africa, a systematic discussion of some of the root causes of violence, as well as case studies on the consequences of violence and the effects of conflict resolution.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144515003321

Titolo

Applied mathematics and computation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York, NY], : Elsevier Science Inc

Amsterdam, : Elsevier

ISSN

1873-5649

Soggetti

Mathematics

Mathematical models

Mathematics - Data processing

Mathematical models - Periodicals

Biomedical engineering

Medical economics

Health planning

Biomedical Engineering

Economics, Medical

Health Planning

Mathématiques - Périodiques

Modèles mathématiques - Périodiques

Modèles mathématiques

Mathématiques - Informatique

Génie biomédical

Économie de la santé

Santé publique - Planification

Mathématiques



biomedical engineering

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Index, abstracts and table of contents for 1995- also available online.