Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical
reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose
the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of
peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations;
statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament,
demobilization, and reintegration. Essays also address the
institutional framework for peacebuilding in Africa and the
ideological underpinnings of key institutions, including the
African Union, NEPAD, the African Development Bank, the Pan-African
Ministers Conference for Public and Civil Service, the UN
Peacebuilding Commission, the World Bank, and the International
Criminal Court. The volume includes on-the-ground case study
chapters on Sudan, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Sierra Leone
and Liberia, the Niger Delta, Southern Africa, and Somalia,
analyzing how peacebuilding operates in particular African
contexts. The authors adopt a variety of approaches, but they share
a conviction that peacebuilding in Africa is not a script that is
authored solely in Western capitals and in the corridors of the
United Nations. Rather, the writers in this volume focus on the
interaction between local and global ideas and practices in the
reconstitution of authority and livelihoods after conflict. The
book systematically showcases the tensions that occur within and
between the many actors involved in the peacebuilding industry, as
well as their intended beneficiaries. It looks at the multiple ways
in which peacebuilding ideas and initiatives are reinforced,
questioned, reappropriated, and redesigned by different African
actors. Contributors: Christopher Clapham, Devon Curtis, Gwinyayi
A. Dzinesa, Comfort Ero, Graham Harrison, Eboe Hutchful, Gilbert M.
Khadiagala, David Keen, Chris Landsberg, Ren\u00e9 Lemarchand,
Sarah Nouwen, 'Funmi Olonisakin and Eka Ikpe, Paul Omach, Aderoju
Oyefusi, Sharath Srinivasan, and Dominik Zaum. A joint project
between the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South
Africa, and the Centre of African Studies at the University of
Cambridge.
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