The Resolution of African Conflicts: The Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Management of Post-conflict Resolution and Post-conflict Reconstruction - Softcover

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847013023 ISBN 13: 9781847013026

Publisher: James Currey, 2008

Synopsis

Offers analyses of a range of African conflicts and demonstrates that peace is 'too important to be left to outsiders'. In this companion volume to The Roots of African Conflicts African scholars analyse a number of conflicts and their resolution - demonstrating the importance of their resolution and their impact on the wider continent '...The studies in these two books seek to advance our understanding of African conflicts by going beyond the conventional and fashionable analyses of Africanist scholarship, often inflected with, if not infected by, Afropessimism, or the simplistic stereotypes conveyed in the western media that is infused with Afrophobia....these conflicts must be understood in comparative perspective, not in isolation. Violent conflict in Africa is indeed part of the human drama, but the tendency to impose universalist models of conflict driven from stylized western experiences or faddish theorising must be resisted... such paradigms lead to poor analysis and bad policy. Conflict is too serious a matter, and its costs too grave, for glib modeling or lazy journalistic speculation uninformed by the histories of, and unmindful of the concrete conditions in, the societies under scrutiny.' - From the introduction to The Roots of African Conflicts by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza 'The search for peace is too important to be left to outsiders, however well-intentioned. It is encouraging to see that a growing number of African scholars areinterested in exploring and engaging this crucial subject'. - From the introduction to The Resolution of African Conflicts by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza North America: Ohio U Press; South Africa: Unisa Press

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About the Authors

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Vice Chancellor at United States International University-Africa.

Professor Alfred G. Nhema is the Director of the School of Government. His research interests are in the areas of Democracy and Governance, Public Administration, Public Policy, Peace and Conflict. He is the Editor of The Resolution of African Conflicts: the Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (2008) and The Roots of African Conflicts: the Causes and Costs (2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847013023
• ISBN 13: 9781847013026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Nhema Professor Alfred