This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding.
With a range of perspectives, the chapters cover the full gamut of peacebuilding (i.e. the continuum between conflict prevention and post-war reconstruction) and address both micro and macro peacebuilding issues in the five regions of Africa. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on a single case study or few case studies in peacebuilding scholarship, the chapters examine critical peacebuilding issues at the local, state, regional, extra-regional, and continental levels in Africa.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, peace and security studies, regional organizations, development studies, state-building, and more broadly to international relations, public policy, diplomacy, international organizations, and the wider social sciences.
This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding.
1. Introduction: A Social Justice Perspective of Politics of
Peacebuilding in Africa
2. Fractured Intimacies: Oil-Induced Violence in
the Oil-Rich Albertine Region, Western Uganda
3. Why Peacebuilding Fails: The
Experience of Managing Conflicts between Farmers and Herders in Nigeria
4.
Evaluating Practices of Civil Society Organizations in the Prevention of
Electoral Violence in Côte dIvoire and Burkina Faso
5. Reconceptualising
Peacebuilding: Insights from Young Women in Zimbabwe
6. Peacebuilding through
Religious Training: The Case Study of Moroccos Training Program of African
Imams
7. Divided Peacebuilders: Christian Religious Leaders and the Search
for Peace in Nigeria, 1966-1970
8. Integrative Approach to Peacebuilding in
Africa: The experience of the Kuria Community of Kenya and Tanzania
9.
Negotiating State Intervention in Pastoral Areas: Local Elites as Brokers for
Peace
10. The Limits of Environmental Peacebuilding: Challenges to
Cooperation in the Eastern Nile
11. Game Changers in Asymmetrical Conflicts:
Zimbabwean Diaspora Media Reporting of Homeland Conflict
12. Gender Approach
to Peacebuilding in Cameroon and Central African Republic: The Case Study of
the Okoo Ngaa mo (Women of Peace)
13. The Evolving Partnership between the
African Union and the Economic Community of West African States in
Peacebuilding
14. Women, Peace, and Security: Investigating the
Implementation of the UNSCR 1325 in Northern Kenya and its Policy
Implications
15. Conclusion: Ideas, Actors, Institutions, and Future Research
Direction
Thomas Kwasi Tieku is an associate professor of Political Science in Kings University College at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Amanda Coffie is a research fellow at the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy, University of Ghana, Ghana.
Mary Boatemaa Setrana is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of Ghana, Ghana.
Akin Taiwo is an assistant professor of Social Work at Kings University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
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