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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819948003321

Titolo

Ending Africa's wars : progressing to peace / / edited by Oliver Furley and Roy May

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2006

ISBN

1-315-57951-0

1-317-14380-9

1-317-14379-5

1-281-09706-3

9786611097066

0-7546-8089-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FurleyOliver

MayRoy

Disciplina

327.1/72096

Soggetti

Peace-building - Africa

Political stability - Africa

Conflict management - Africa

Africa Economic conditions

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

Africa's wars : overview, causes and the challenges of conflict transformation / Richard Jackson -- Post-settlement governance programmes : what is being built in Africa? / Bruce Baker -- Society, reconciliation and conflict transformation in post-war Africa / Andrew Rigby -- Disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration in Africa / Joanna Spear -- Multi-party mediation in the Guinea-Bissau civil war / Simon Massey -- Democratic Republic of Congo : problems of the peacekeeping process / Emeric Rogier -- Uganda : the struggle for peace / Oliver Furley -- Elusive settlement : Angola's 'peace processes', 1975-2002 / Norrie MacQueen -- A separate peace : Mozambique, state reconstruction and the search for sustainable democracy / Chris Alden -- Peacemaking in Sudan / Peter Woodward -- Liberia : a durable peace at last? / Gerry Cleaver and Simon Massey



-- A long prelude to peace : African involvement in ending Burundi's war / Roger Southall -- A sustainable peace? : Sierra Leone / Bruce Baker and Roy May.

Sommario/riassunto

Post-colonial Africa has seemingly been in an intractable state of conflict and war for a considerable period of time. This volume explores the process by which these wars were ended, discusses the lessons learnt, and examines the sustainability of recently reconciled conflicts to see how far peace solutions are permanent in this region.