From Conflict To Recovery In Africa

Author : Tony Addison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1308840752

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From Conflict to Recovery in Africa by Tony Addison Pdf

Establishing peace and reconstructing Africa's war-damaged economies are urgent challenges. For Africa to recover, communities must reconstruct, private sectors must revitalize, and states must transform themselves. Thus, unless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth can be poverty-reducing. But communities cannot prosper unless private investment recreates markets and generates more employment. And neither communities nor entrepreneurs can realise their potential without a development state-one that is democratically accountable and dedicated to poverty-reducing development. The international community can do much to assist-through more aid, debt relief, and peacekeeping-but ultimately the future lies in the hands of Africans themselves.

Author : Tony Addison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199261032

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From Conflict to Recovery in Africa by Tony Addison Pdf

Revitalizing private sectors. 4. Transforming states. Conclusions. For a list of contributions, go to the full-text area of this record.

Author : Tony Addison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1308840908

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Africa's Recovery from Conflict by Tony Addison Pdf

This policy brief summarizes the results of a UNU-WIDER project on war and reconstruction in Africa directed by Tony Addison, which is now published as From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. As this study makes clear, peace is often elusive and economic policy can play a major role in supporting the efforts of those working at the national and international levels to build peace. Above all it is crucial to focus post-conflict policies on the needs of the poor, so that recovery is broad based in its benefits, and does not simply benefit a narrow elite.

Author : Alfred G. Nhema,Tiyambe Zeleza,Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9780821418086

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The Resolution of African Conflicts by Alfred G. Nhema,Tiyambe Zeleza,Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Pdf

"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 : Theo Neethling,Heidi Hudson
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781775820048

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Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa by Theo Neethling,Heidi Hudson Pdf

Some of the bloodiest conflicts occur on the African continent. An Afrocentric perspective is therefore a suitable starting point for research into the possible strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding. The authors of this book consider the problems around the concept of ‘post-conflict’ and the blurring of military and civilian roles, analysing the UN roles in the DRC and Sierra Leone, as well as the African Union Mission in Burundi. The main context of the book, however, is the South African Army’s strategy for PCRD in Africa, which was developed with the African Union’s 2006 Post-Conflict, Reconstruction and Development Needs Assessment Guide in mind. This book emanates from this plan. It therefore also explores South Africa’s policy imperatives to integrate development projects and peace missions, involving the military as well as civilian organisations. While this book is not intended as an instruction manual, it hopes to ignite an understanding of the particular processes required to develop a sustainable and cohesive post-conflict peacebuilding strategy within the African environment.

Author : Gunnar M. Sørbø,Peter C. J. Vale
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043793093

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Out of Conflict by Gunnar M. Sørbø,Peter C. J. Vale Pdf

Post Cold War Dilemmas

Author : Pamela Aall,Chester A. Crocker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781928096412

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The Fabric of Peace in Africa by Pamela Aall,Chester A. Crocker Pdf

Africa has experienced dozens of conflicts over a variety of issues during the past two decades. Responding to these conflicts requires concerted action to manage the crises – the violence, the political discord, and the humanitarian consequences of prolonged fighting. It is also necessary to address the long-term social and economic impacts of conflict, to rebuild communities, societies and states that have been torn apart. To accomplish this requires the involvement of institutions and groups rarely considered in formal official African conflict management activities: schools, universities, religious institutions, media, commercial enterprises, legal institutions, civil society groups, youth, women and migrants. These groups and organizations have an important role to play in building a sense of identity, fairness, shared norms and cohesion between state and society – all critical components of the fabric of peace and security in Africa. This volume brings together leading experts from Africa, Europe and North America to examine these critical social institutions and groups, and consider how they can either improve or impede peaceful conflict resolution. The overarching questions that are explored by the authors are: What constitutes social cohesion and resilience in the face of conflict? What are the threats to cohesion and resilience? And how can the positive elements be fostered and by whom? The second of two volumes on African conflict management capacity by the editors, The Fabric of Peace in Africa: Looking beyond the State opens new doors of understanding for students, scholars and practitioners focused on strengthening peace in Africa; the first volume, Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of change, focused on the role of mediation and peacekeeping in managing violence and political crises.

Author : Martin Doornbos,Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands)
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015026935026

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Beyond Conflict in the Horn by Martin Doornbos,Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) Pdf

Author : David Francis
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848137493

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Peace and Conflict in Africa by David Francis Pdf

Nowhere in the world is the demand for peace more prominent and challenging than in Africa. From state collapse and anarchy in Somalia to protracted wars and rampant corruption in the Congo; from bloody civil wars and extreme poverty in Sierra Leone to humanitarian crisis and authoritarianism in Sudan, the continent is the focus of growing political and media attention. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of conflict and peace across the continent. Bringing together a range of leading academics from Africa and beyond, Peace and Conflict in Africa is an ideal introduction to key themes of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, security and development. The book's stress on the importance of indigenous Africa approaches to creating peace makes it an innovative and exciting intervention in the field.

Author : Kelechi A. Kalu,George Klay Kieh Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793643131

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Peacebuilding in Africa by Kelechi A. Kalu,George Klay Kieh Jr. Pdf

Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises argues that building enduring peace in post-conflict states in Africa requires comprehensive, state-specific approaches that address the multidimensional crises that generated civil conflict and instabilities in these countries. Contributors examine states such as Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Sudan to demonstrate that peacebuilding projects in each of these states must address the cultural, economic, political, and social root causes of their respective underlying civil conflicts. In addition, contributors prove that peacebuilding projects must be shaped by the centrality of human security: the respect for ethno-cultural diversity, the advancement of human material well-being, the protection of political rights and civil liberties, and the redesigning of the military and security architecture to ensure the safety of all citizens from both internal and external threats.

Author : Sam Moyo,Yoichi Mine
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956763757

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What Colonialism Ignored by Sam Moyo,Yoichi Mine Pdf

As Julius Nyerere once noted, Africa has largely been the continent of peace, though this fact has not been widely publicised. In reality, Africa possesses dynamic potentials for resolving contradictions and violent ruptures that colonial authorities, post-colonial states and global actors have failed to capture and capitalise upon. Drawing on the everyday experience of rural and urban people in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Zambia, this book brings into conversation leading Japanese scholars of Southern Africa with their African colleagues. The result is an exploration in comparative perspective of the fascinating richness of bottom-up African potentials for conflict resolution in Southern Africa, a region burdened with the legacy of settler capitalism and contemporary neoliberalism. The book is a pacesetter on how to think and research Africa in fruitful collaboration and with an ear to the nuances and complexities of the dynamic and lived realities of Africans.

Author : Alfred G. Nhema,Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073677422

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The Roots of African Conflicts by Alfred G. Nhema,Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Pdf

This work, along with 'The Resolution of African Conflicts', clearly demonstrates 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.

Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010205352

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Ripe for Resolution by I. William Zartman Pdf

What causes local conflict in Africa and the rest of the Third World? What role, if any, can the U.S. play in helping to resolve these conflicts, and when is the ripe moment for a response by an external power? This new study, written by the internationally renowned Africanist I. William Zartman and undertaken as part of the Africa Project of the Council on Foreign Relations, examines the causes and nature of African conflict and addresses the issue of how foreign powers can productively contribute to the management and resolution of such conflicts without resorting to the use of military force. The book focuses on four case studies of local conflict and external response-in the Western Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Shaba province in Zaire, and Namibia-to assess various approaches to conflict management, and offers guidelines for identifying the critical moment for effective external response. Zartman also evaluates U.S. policy toward Third World conflict and spells out a policy toward Africa and the Third World in general that is based on preemptive treatment rather than military intervention.

Author : Marshall Mills,Mr.Antonio David,Mr.Fabiano Rodrigues Rodrigues Bastos
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781455269471

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Post-Conflict Recovery by Marshall Mills,Mr.Antonio David,Mr.Fabiano Rodrigues Rodrigues Bastos Pdf

This paper identifies the factors linked to cross-country differentials in growth performance in the aftermath of social conflict for 30 sub-Saharan African countries using panel data techniques. Our results show that changes in the terms of trade are the most important correlate of economic performance in post-conflict environments. This variable is typically associated with an increase in the marginal probability of positive economic performance by about 30 percent. Institutional quality emerges as the second most important factor. Foreign aid is shown to have very limited ability to explain differentials in growth performance, and other policy variables such as trade openness are not found to have a statistically significant effect. The results suggest that exogenous factors ("luck") are an important factor in post-conflict recovery. They also highlight the importance in post-conflict settings of policies to mitigate the macroeconomic impact of terms of trade volatility (including countercyclical macroeconomic policies and innovative financing instruments) and of policies to promote export diversification.

Author : Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119685472

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The Quest for Peace in Africa by Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa. Congress Pdf

... Contains the proceedings of the papers presented at the seventh OSSREA Congress held in December 2002, in Khartoum, Sudan.