Humanitarian Intervention And Conflict Resolution In West Africa

Author : John M. Kabia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119555

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Humanitarian Intervention and Conflict Resolution in West Africa by John M. Kabia Pdf

The end of the Cold War has been characterized by a wave of violent civil wars that have produced unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and suffering. Although mostly intra-state, these conflicts have spread across borders and threatened international peace and security. One of the worst affected regions is West Africa which has been home to some of Africa's most brutal and intractable conflicts for more than a decade. This volume locates the peacekeeping operations of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) within an expanded post-Cold War conceptualization of humanitarian intervention. It examines the organization's capacity to protect civilians at risk in civil conflicts and to facilitate the processes of peacemaking and post-war peace-building. Taking the empirical case of ECOWAS, the book looks at the challenges posed by complex political emergencies (CPEs) to humanitarian intervention and traces the evolution of ECOWAS from an economic integration project to a security organization, examining the challenges inherent in such a transition.

Author : Irit Back
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857729712

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Intervention and Sovereignty in Africa by Irit Back Pdf

In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the founding of the African Union, a resolution about direct intervention in a conflict that involved wide-ranging abuse of human rights was accepted on a pan-continental level. Here, Irit Back looks at the changes in attitudes towards the ever-problematic tension between the concepts of humanitarian intervention and state sovereignty, using the example of the African Union's intervention in Darfur to illustrate this unique pan-continental approach to conflict resolution and peace-keeping. Additionally, Back analyses the challenges which international task forces, including AMIS and its successor the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), have faced ever since. Including an examination of the situation in the wake of the declaration of independence of South Sudan in 2011, this book offers a unique perspective on the problem of internationally organised intervention in local conflicts.

Author : David R. Smock,United States Institute of Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : PURD:32754066024310

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Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict in Africa by David R. Smock,United States Institute of Peace Pdf

Author : Francis M. Deng,Sadikiel Kimaro,Terrence Lyons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815719731

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Sovereignty as Responsibility by Francis M. Deng,Sadikiel Kimaro,Terrence Lyons Pdf

The authors assert that sovereignty can no longer be seen as a protection against interference, but as a charge of responsibility where the state is accountable to both domestic and external constituencies. In internal conflicts in Africa, sovereign states have often failed to take responsibility for their own citizens' welfare and for the humanitarian consequences of conflict, leaving the victims with no assistance. This book shows how that responsibility can be exercised by states over their own population, and by other states in assistance to their fellow sovereigns. Sovereignty as Responsibility presents a framework that should guide both national governments and the international community in discharging their respective responsibilities. Broad principles are developed by examining identity as a potential source of conflict, governance as a matter of managing conflict, and economics as a policy field for deterring conflict. Considering conflict management, political stability, economic development, and social welfare as functions of governance, the authors develop strategies, guidelines, and roles for its responsible exercise. Some African governments, such as South Africa in the 1990s and Ghana since 1980, have demonstrated impressive gains against these standards, while others, such as Rwanda, Somalia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sudan, have failed. Opportunities for making sovereignty more responsible and improving the management of conflicts are examined at the regional and international levels. The lessons from the mixed successes of regional conflict management actions, such as the West African intervention in Liberia, the East African mediation in Sudan, and international efforts to urge talks to end the conflict in Angola, indicate friends and neighbors outside the state in conflict have important roles to play in increasing sovereign responsibility. Approaching conflict management from the perspective of the responsibilities of sovereignt

Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081605599

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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 : Osita Agbu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9782869781931

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West Africa's Trouble Spots and the Imperative for Peace-Building by Osita Agbu Pdf

This monograph highlights the necessity for taking preventive measures in the form of peace-building as a sustainable and long-term solution to conflicts in West Africa, with a special focus on the Mano River Union countries. Apart from the Mano River Union countries, efforts at resolving other conflicts in say, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, C'te d'Ivoire and Nigeria, have suffered from a lack of attention on the post-conflict imperatives of building peace in order to ensure that sustainable peace is achieved. Given the often intractable and inter-related nature of conflicts in this region, it argues for the need to revisit the existing mechanisms of conflict resolution in the sub-region with a view to canvassing a stronger case for stakeholders towards adopting the peace-building strategy as a more practical and sustainable way of avoiding wars in the sub-region. Peace-building in consonance with its infrastructure is a more sustainable approach to ensuring regional peace and stability and, therefore, ensuring development for the peoples of West Africa. Dr Osita Agbu is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. His areas of specialization include Peace and Conflict studies, Governance and Democratization and Technology and Development. He was until recently, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan.

Author : Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Publisher : South African Institute of International Affairs with Assistance of Ford Foundation and Independent
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112336289

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A Continent Apart by Elizabeth Sidiropoulos Pdf

Author : Abu Bakarr Bah,Nikolas Emmanuel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253070654

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International Statebuilding in West Africa by Abu Bakarr Bah,Nikolas Emmanuel Pdf

At the turn of the twenty-first century, manipulation of the democratic process coupled with preexisting political and economic grievances led to years-long civil wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire. During and after these conflicts, international peacekeeping efforts and humanitarian intervention became the dominant paths for restoring stability by rebuilding the state. Using these three countries as case studies, this manuscript sheds light on internationally driven state building in war-torn West African nations, the problematic nature of the postcolonial state, and the difficulties of securing its people's wellbeing. Connecting peace and conflict, democracy, and international development studies, Bah and Emmanuel argue that there is a clear nexus between the concepts and practices of peace building and statebuilding; that peace building and statebuilding are not domestic matters alone but also matters of global intervention; and that civil wars can be viewed as opportunities for state building through creative postwar partnerships and organization. This study goes beyond the familiar concepts of failed states, R2P, peacekeeping, and peace mediation and introduces and enhances the concepts of state decay, new humanitarianism, people-centered liberalism, and institutional design. In doing so, it provides critical lessons that local and international actors can draw on as they try to figure out practical solutions to the political, economic, and social problems that impede the development of peaceful and democratic multiethnic postcolonial states in Africa and beyond. Applying comparative-historical methods and theory to archival materials and expert interviews, International Statebuilding in West Africa seeks to shift the discourse on civil wars from their causes and implications to the opportunities they provide to rework failed states—and to shift the discourse on African states from their colonial and neocolonial legacies to their shared moral and security interests with the rest of the world.

Author : B. Everill,J. Kaplan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137270023

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The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa by B. Everill,J. Kaplan Pdf

The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked Africa. This book brings together perspectives from history, cultural studies, international relations, policy, and non-governmental organizations to analyze the themes, continuities and discontinuities in Western humanitarian engagement with Africa.

Author : Oliver Ramsbotham,Tom Woodhouse
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745615104

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Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict by Oliver Ramsbotham,Tom Woodhouse Pdf

This timely book is a wide-ranging assessment of the international response to devastating contemporary conflicts, such as those in Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda. As such, it is the first comprehensive account and examination of humanitarian intervention in the post-cold war period. After a thorough survey of the traditional debates, the authors concentrate on an analysis of contemporary conflict, using illustrations from a range of post-cold war examples. Various options, including non-intervention, peacekeeping, and forcible humanitarian intervention, are illustrated and discussed, with profiles of the most destructive contemporary conflicts and the responses to them by the international community. The roles of governments, UN agencies, the Red Cross and non-governmental organizations are carefully examined. From this material, the authors argue for a reconceptualization of humanitarian intervention and develop principles which, they argue, should govern all of its uses. The book ends with detailed accounts of Bosnia and Somalia. In broadening and updating the theory of humanitarian intervention, this book balances clear explanation with detailed examples. It contains recommended further reading, diagrams and tables, and a full bibliography of references, making it an ideal introduction for students of international relations, international conflict and conflict resolution.

Author : John M. Kabia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119562

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Humanitarian Intervention and Conflict Resolution in West Africa by John M. Kabia Pdf

The end of the Cold War has been characterized by a wave of violent civil wars that have produced unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and suffering. Although mostly intra-state, these conflicts have spread across borders and threatened international peace and security. One of the worst affected regions is West Africa which has been home to some of Africa's most brutal and intractable conflicts for more than a decade. This volume locates the peacekeeping operations of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) within an expanded post-Cold War conceptualization of humanitarian intervention. It examines the organization's capacity to protect civilians at risk in civil conflicts and to facilitate the processes of peacemaking and post-war peace-building. Taking the empirical case of ECOWAS, the book looks at the challenges posed by complex political emergencies (CPEs) to humanitarian intervention and traces the evolution of ECOWAS from an economic integration project to a security organization, examining the challenges inherent in such a transition.

Author : Gunnar M. Sørbø,Peter C. J. Vale
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073055589

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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 : 50,8 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 : Tedla Desta
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527573727

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Reporting Conflicts, Humanitarian Crises and Peace Processes by Tedla Desta Pdf

This book analyses how humanitarian crises, conflicts, and peace processes in the Horn of Africa (HoA) were covered by two different media outlets, the Daily Nation (DN) and the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), currently known as The New Humanitarian. The author develops a new framework called the Four-Part Framework, and examines the coverage of humanitarian crises, conflicts and peace processes, particularly conflicts and peace processes in Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan. Regional conflict and media situations are also discussed in the book, as well as important recommendations that could be applicable in similar situations in other locations.

Author : Oliver Ramsbotham,Tom Woodhouse
Publisher : Polity
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745615112

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Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict by Oliver Ramsbotham,Tom Woodhouse Pdf

This is the first comprehensive account of humanitarian intervention in contemporary conflict.