Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781433704727
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1429453435
,
9781429453431
Series Statement:
African-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies 1
Content:
This volume brings together a wide range of international experts to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Introduction Violence, Power and Rationality: A Political Analysis of Conflict in Contemporary Africa (Patrick Chabal) -- PART ONE EXPLAINING CONFLICT AND UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT PREVENTION IN AFRICA -- 1. Angola and the Theory of War (Christopher Cramer) -- 2. Ethnicity and Citizenship in Sub Saharan Africa (Anna-Maria Gentili) -- 3. Natural Resources, Scarcity and Conflict: A Perspective from Below (Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk) -- 4. Empirical Perspectives on African Conflict Resolution (Klaas van Walraven) -- 5. Area Studies, the Analysis of Conflicts and the Evaluation of Preventive Practice in Africa (Andreas Mehler) -- PART TWO MANAGING CONFLICT AND IMPLEMENTING CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN AFRICA -- 6. The Social Cost of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Theodore Trefon) -- 7. Assessing Africa's Two-Phase Peace Implementation Process: Power-sharing and Democratization (Donald Rothchild) -- 8. Administrative Decentralization and Political Conflict in Mali (Gerti Hesseling & Han van Dijk) -- 9. Principles for Conflict Transformation: Practitioners in Africa (Shamil Idriss) -- Conclusion Violent Conflict and Conflict Prevention in Africa: An Alternative Research Agenda (Ulf Engel) -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Violence, power and rationality: a political analysis of conflict in contemporary Africa
,
Angola and the theory of war
,
Ethnicity and citizenship in Sub Saharan Africa
,
Natural resources, scarcity and conflict: a perspective from below
,
Empirical perspectives on African conflict resolution
,
Area studies, the analysis of conflicts and the evaluation of preventive practice in Africa
,
The social cost of conflict in the Democratic Republic of CongoTheodore TrefonAssessing Africa's two-phase peace implementation process: power-sharing and democratization
,
Administrative decentralization and political conflict in Mali
,
Principles for conflict transformation: practitioners in Africa
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Violent conflict and conflict prevention in Africa
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004144507
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Is violence inevitable in Africa? Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2005 ISBN 9789004144507
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004144501
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Sociology
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Gewalt
;
Politischer Konflikt
;
Konfliktvermeidung
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Gewalt
;
Politik
;
Konfliktvermeidung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
