The Future Of Conflict Resolution In Africa And The Role Of The Organization Of African Unity Oau

Author : Babacar Diouf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073167608

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The Future of Conflict Resolution in Africa and the Role of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) by Babacar Diouf Pdf

This thesis examines the future of conflict resolution in Africa and the role of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in the process, based on the 1993 OAU's "Mechanism" (MCPMR). It argues that, in Africa, historical evidence suggests a continuing pattern of internal conflicts aggravated by destabilization attempts. It also seeks to demonstrate that for various reasons, the OAU has been weak in this type of conflict. This opens two options. One, making the OAU irrelevant, is to maintain the present track and end up between an evil and a lesser evil scenarios. The first is the intervention by a regional power, using a sub-regional organization. Here the risk is to see the regional power, in the absence of a watchdog, use the organization for its own agenda, as in the Nigerian interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone, with the ECOWAS. The other scenario is the intervention by a country or group of countries for purely selfish reasons to change another country's political leadership, as in the Angolan interventions in Zaire and Congo. The second option, less likely without substantial reforms, is for the OAU to use the support available from the international community to establish itself as a forum, an organizer, a legitimizer and a watchdog.

Author : Marvin Nii Ankrah
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783954895786

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Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Case of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) by Marvin Nii Ankrah Pdf

The objective of this research is to investigate the causes of conflict in Africa. Further, it discusses the role played by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in ensuring political order during its period of existence. The study employs content analysis of historical documents, academic works, internet sources and also current conflict situations in Africa as a baseline for its argument. Mainly, the study shows which major sources of tension need to be resolved to enjoy a sound, stable, peaceful, political and economic environment in the new millennium.

Author : Organization of African Unity. General Secretariat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070603936

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Resolving Conflicts in Africa by Organization of African Unity. General Secretariat Pdf

Author : Francis M. Deng,I. William Zartman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815707185

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Conflict Resolution in Africa by Francis M. Deng,I. William Zartman Pdf

While dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts. The toll of these conflicts is monumental in terms of war damage to productivity, scarce resources diverted to armaments and military organizations, and the resulting insecurity, displacement, and destruction. At the same time, Africans, in response to internal demands as well as to international changes, have begun to focus their attention and energies on these problems and are trying innovative ways to resolve differences by nonviolent means. The outcomes of these attempts have urgent and complex implications for the future of the continent with respect to human rights, principles of democracy, and economic development. In this book, African, European, and U.S. experts examine these important issues and the prospects for conflict management and resolution in Africa. They review the scholarship in resolution in light of international changes now taking place. Addressing the undying, internal causes of conflict, they question whether global events will promote peace or threaten to unleash even more conflict. The authors focus their analysis on the issues involved in African conflicts and examine the areas in need of the most dramatic changes. They offer specific recommendations for dealing with current problems, but caution that unless policymakers confront the security situation in Africa, further destruction to national unity and political and economic stability is imminent. Case studies and themes for further, long-term research are recommended.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045303380

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Conflict Resolution in Africa by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa Pdf

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Author : Organization of African Unity. General Secretariat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070620658

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Resolving Conflicts in Africa by Organization of African Unity. General Secretariat Pdf

Author : Alfred G. Nhema,Tiyambe Zeleza,Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Kathryn Nash
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526152800

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African peace by Kathryn Nash Pdf

African regional organizations have played leading roles in constructing collective conflict management rules for the continent, but these rules or norms have not been static. Currently, the African Union (AU) deploys monitors, authorizes peace support operations, and actively engages to resolve internal conflicts. Just a few decades ago, these actions would have been deeply controversial under the Organization of African Unity (OAU). What changed to allow for this transformation in the way the African regional organization approaches peace and security? African peace examines why the OAU chose norms in 1963 that prioritized state security and led to a policy of strict non-interference - even in the face of destabilizing violence - and why the AU chose very different norms leading to a disparate conflict management policy in the early 2000s. Even if the AU’s capacity to respond to conflict is still developing, this new policy has made the region more willing and capable of responding to violence. Nash argues that norm creation largely happened within the African context, and international pressure was not a determinant factor in their evolution. The role of regions in the international order, particularly the African region, has been under-theorized and under-acknowledged, and this book adds to an emerging literature that explores the role of regional organizations in the Global South in creating and promoting norms based on their own experiences and for their own purposes.

Author : K. van Walraven
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429640285

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Dreams of Power by K. van Walraven Pdf

Originally published in 1999, this book was the first study to provide a systematic reconstruction of the OAU's ideological ground-work. It is based on OAU documents; a corpus of African perceptions of OAU functioning collected from governmental and non-governmental newspapers and publications from more than thirty African countries; and on interviews held with African diplomats and OAU officials. It was also the first study to pay attention to the OAU's role in the political psychology of state elites, which comes to the fore in the areas of OAU co-operation discussed in this book: the OAU's internal functioning; the former struggle against apartheid and colonialism; conflict management; and the OAU's role in representing collective African viewpoints in global fora. This study was originally a Ph.D. thesis, which was considered to be among the best three dissertations in political science in The Netherlands in 1997.

Author : Gino J. Naldi
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4968289

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The Organization of African Unity by Gino J. Naldi Pdf

Author : Jannie Malan
Publisher : Accord Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055806767

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Conflict Resolution Wisdom from Africa by Jannie Malan Pdf

Author : Gunnar M. Sørbø,Peter C. J. Vale
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Abdalla Bujra,Hussein Solomon
Publisher : Dev. Policy Management Forum
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000111161190

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Perspectives on the OAU/AU and Conflict Management in Africa by Abdalla Bujra,Hussein Solomon Pdf

A three way co publication between the Development Policy Management Forum in Addis Ababa, the African Centre for Applied Research and Training in Social Development, and the Community of the Sahel Saharan States in Libya presenting a pan African perspective on the revitalised African Union and conflict management within the continent.

Author : IPA/OAU Consultation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070599662

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Civil Society and Conflict Management in Africa by IPA/OAU Consultation Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073086279

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African Journal on Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution by Anonim Pdf